Quantum Physics

Some scientists make discoveries. Others create entirely new ways of understanding the universe. Harish-Chandra belonged to the latter…

The nature of time has long puzzled scientists, and now one researcher at the University of Birmingham has…

Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to…

Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…

Sun, L. et al. Creating organic functional materials beyond chemical bond synthesis by organic cocrystal engineering. J. Am.…

Dai, X. et al. Solution-processed, high-performance light-emitting diodes based on quantum dots. Nature 515, 96–99 (2014). Article ADS …

Miao, J., Charalambous, P., Kirz, J. & Sayre, D. Extending the methodology of X-ray crystallography to allow imaging…

Artistic representation of the interior of a diamond anvil cell. A copper-colored, multi-stage Lenz lens is placed on…

Researchers have shown that elusive magnetic excitations can survive far longer than previously thought, opening new possibilities for…

A quantum physics experiment showed photons can exhibit negative dwell time while traveling through atoms. Scientists confirmed the…

Monolayer MoS2 was synthesized over large areas on c-plane sapphire substrates via CVD (Methods and Supplementary Fig. 1)28…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For the past few decades, researchers have understood…

Meet Harish-Chandra: The forgotten Indian mathematician who corrected a Nobel laureate and transformed modern physics |