Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts
Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how the Universe…
Bose–Hubbard simulator with long-range hopping
Combescot, M. & Shiau, S. Y. Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics (Oxford Univ.…
Quantum Darwinism: How humans agree on the nature of reality
Quantum physics allows particles to exist in many possible states at the same time. But in the reality…
Is the Universe Defective? Part 4: Hiding in Plain Darkness
This is Part 4 of a series on topological defects. Read Parts 1, 2, and 3. The WHAT?…
Sir Anthony Leggett obituary | Physics
The launch in the 1950s of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, played an unexpected but important role…
Origin of strange metallicity in a d-orbital kagome metal
In quantum materials, Coulomb interactions can cause two types of effects. In the first, phases with spontaneously broken…
The Universe’s Magnetic Fields Stumped Scientists for Decades. Not Anymore.
After seven decades of failed attempts, researchers have finally identified how the universe generates its vast, orderly magnetic…
Little red dots: What are the mysterious objects in the Webb telescope’s photos?
Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by…
At low exciton density, a superfluid suddenly stops flowing – Physics World
At low exciton density, a superfluid suddenly stops flowing – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…
Scientists discover heavier version of proton with upgraded detector | Particle physics
Scientists at the Cern nuclear physics laboratory near Geneva have discovered a heavier version of the proton, the…
Angular interplay of nematicity, superconductivity and strange metallicity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene
Kivelson, S. A., Fradkin, E. & Emery, V. J. Electronic liquid-crystal phases of a doped Mott insulator. Nature…
A strange new quantum state appears when atoms get “frustrated”
In the laboratory of UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Stephen Wilson, researchers are investigating the physics behind unusual…