Dispersive determination of nucleon gravitational form factors
Meson form factors Pion has two GFFs which are defined as18,20,59,60,61 $$ \left\langle {\pi }^{a}({p}^{{\prime} })\left\vert {\hat{T}}^{\mu \nu…
Building electronics that don’t die: Columbia’s breakthrough at CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is tough on electronics. Situated inside a 17-mile-long tunnel that runs in a…
After 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics, Physicists Still Can’t Agree on Anything
In July 1925—exactly a century ago—famed physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his equally famous colleague, Wolfgang…
Microscopic theory of polariton group velocity renormalization
Model system We use the Generalized Holstein-Tavis-Cummings (GHTC) Hamiltonian23,24,25,26 to describe N excitons interacting with \({{{\mathcal{M}}}}\) cavity modes,…
Einstein Was Wrong? ‘Idealized’ Double-Slit Experiment Ends Nearly 100-Year-Old Debate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists performing what they described as an “idealized” version of the infamous double-slit…
New Lightning Discovery Reveals How Electric Fields and X-rays Start a Chain Reaction
Lightning has captivated scientists for centuries, but despite extensive research, the precise atmospheric conditions that trigger a lightning…
Why “vibe physics” is the ultimate example of AI slop
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Pressure tuning of Kitaev spin liquid candidate Na3Co2SbO6
Kitaev, A. Anyons in an exactly solved model and beyond. Ann. Phys. 321, 2–111 (2006). MathSciNet Google Scholar …
“Rarest Baryon Decay Ever Observed” Found In Large Hadron Collider Experiment That Wasn’t Even Looking For It
Baryons are subatomic particles made up of an odd number of quarks. Protons and neutrons found at the…
When light waves collide something incredible happens, study finds
The magnetic moment of the muon—a tiny property of a tiny particle—has long puzzled physicists. Experiments and theory…
It’s darker than darkness — Black hole bomb created for the first time in histoy
The concept of a “black hole bomb” seems out of reach even as a thought to most cosmological…
Bright triplet and bright charge-separated singlet excitons in organic diradicals enable optical read-out and writing of spin states
Photoexcitation in the spin triplet manifold is constrained to similar non-bonding to π/π* ‘bandgap’ excitations as for the…