Several prominent phenomena of condensed matter, exemplified by nonlinear transport, flat-band superconductivity, and ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a new phase a matter called “half-ice, half-fire.” This elemental moniker is a reference to the ordered ...

An interdisciplinary collaboration between condensed ... matter. The proposed quantum detector builds on EQUS studies of elementary excitations in superfluid helium and advances in opto-mechanics.

There are a seemingly endless number of quantum states that describe quantum matter and the strange phenomena that emerge ...

As strange and unique as the laws of the quantum realm appear in our everyday experience, every now and then experiments ...

A century since Werner Heisenberg changed the course of physics, five of the world's leading physicists examine the greatest ...

A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart. A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would never, ever fall into ...

Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material. Researchers at ...

To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter ... of quantum mechanics when trying to ...

Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity ... vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise ...

The effects of quantum mechanics—the laws of physics that ... quantum information theory, condensed matter physics, cosmology, and biophysics,” said Professor Marco Pettini of Aix-Marseille ...

In a conversation with Scientific American, ’t Hooft spoke about his Breakthrough Prize, his optimism for the future of particle physics, his dissatisfaction with quantum mechanics, and the ...