Magnon-polarons in the Fermi–Hubbard model
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From nothing to everything: What happened before the Big Bang?
A new review argues that modern numerical relativity can push cosmology past its usual shortcuts and test ideas…
Scientists just cracked the quantum code hidden in a single atom
To build a large-scale quantum computer that works, scientists and engineers need to overcome the spontaneous errors that…
Bloch oscillations of a soliton in a one-dimensional quantum fluid
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What came before the Big Bang? Supercomputers may hold the answer
We’re often told it is “unscientific” or “meaningless” to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a…
Physics – Microchip Provides Made-to-Order Photons
August 22, 2025• Physics 18, 151 A 10-µm-wide microchip can generate light with any desired direction, polarization, and…
Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues
Dark energy—the hypothetical force accelerating our universe’s expansion—sometimes raises more questions than it answers. A new study, however,…
What came before the Big Bang remains a mystery but new tools may help
What came before the Big Bang remains a mystery but new tools may help by Sophie Jenkins London,…
Record-Breaking “Watermelon” Nucleus Could Rewrite Atomic Science
The study is part of Henna Kokkonen’s doctoral thesis. Credit: Tommi Sassi After more than 30 years, physicists…
Scientists Crack the Code of China’s Mysterious “Matrix Tide”
On China’s Qiantang River, witnesses recently observed an extraordinary “matrix tide,” where colliding tidal bores formed a grid…
Optical focusing into scattering media via iterative time reversal guided by absorption nonlinearity
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Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible
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