A Universe Without Dark Energy? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmology
A new analysis argues that the standard cosmological model may be fundamentally unstable, raising questions about whether dark…
Crossover of quasi-localized dynamics and diffusion in supercooled liquids
A liquid cooled sufficiently fast below the melting temperature does not crystallize and can be deeply undercooled until…
ICQIA Expands Global Reach With New Charter And Members
Insider Brief The International Council of Quantum Industry Associations expanded its membership by adding UKQuantum and the Korea…
Research on magnetic plasma confinement wins Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Outstanding Paper Prize – Physics World
Research on magnetic plasma confinement wins Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Outstanding Paper Prize – Physics World Skip…
Dynamically tunable membrane metasurfaces for infrared spectroscopy and strong light-matter interactions
To investigate the thermal tunability of the Si membrane metasurfaces, we first performed temperature-dependent optical characterization using a…
Observation of exact quantum critical states
Anderson, P. W. Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices. Phys. Rev. 109, 1492 (1958). Article ADS Google…
Physicists Built Quantum States So Strange They Only Existed In Theory, Until Now
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
World’s slowest experiment: inside century-long wait for a single drop
Some science experiments last a few minutes. Some take years. And then there is the Pitch Drop Experiment,…
Orbiting Stars Give Clues to a Quiescent Black Hole’s Mass
How do you measure the mass of a dormant black hole in the early Universe? That’s a question…
Realization of fermionic Laughlin state on a quantum processor
The model We realize the topologically ordered Laughlin state on a quantum processor through constructing an HVA for…
New Physics Is Always Tentative; Here’s Why
In proposing new theories in physics, as in other fields, a scientist needs to maintain a posture of…
Magnetic Fields Help Binary Stars Form and Black Holes Merge
Stars form by direct collapse of gas in giant molecular clouds, creating molecular cloud cores. It’s not a…