In a first, US scientists turn exciton superfluids into supersolids
In a first, scientists at Columbia University in New York and the University of Texas in Austin turned…
NYU physicists create visible time crystals levitated by sound
A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems…
Super-broadband stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging
Raman, C. V. & Krishnan, K. S. A new type of secondary radiation. Nature 121, 501–502 (1928). Article …
Dissipative solitons in mode-locked parity–time-symmetric lasers
Bender, C. M. & Boettcher, S. Real spectra in non-Hermitian Hamiltonians having \({\mathcal{P}}{\mathcal{T}}\) symmetry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80,…
New optical method bypasses light’s limit by 100,000× to image atoms
For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the tiny world. Microscopes use…
Entangled atomic clouds separated in space boost measurement precision
Measuring the world precisely is much harder than it sounds. At very small scales, nature is noisy, and…
New unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics
By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a…
Positronium finally shows wave behavior in landmark quantum experiment
Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the smallest scales. One of…
These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them
Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik Edited by Patrick Charbonneau et al. Cambridge Univ. Press…
Quantum disorder powers self-sustaining microwave signal in diamond
Quantum particles can work together to produce powerful signals. However, those signals are unstable and usually vanish almost…
Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Quantum mechanics controls reality on the smallest levels, but when scaled up, it’s often difficult to gauge how…
What breaks quantum monogamy? Electron crowding delivers a surprise
Are quantum particles polygamous? New experiments suggest some of them abandon long-standing partnerships when conditions get crowded. Quantum…