First device based on ‘optical thermodynamics’ can route light without switches
Credit: Yunxuan Wei at USC. A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer…
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation promises to allow…
Chaos controlled and disorder driven phase transitions induced by breaking permutation symmetry
Solvable case of \(p=0\), generic initial coherent states It is both instructive and interesting to first examine the…
In 1927, A Physicist Conducted A Mass Psychic Experiment Involving 25,000 People
In 1927, a respected physicist conducted one of the largest experiments into telepathy the world has ever undertaken,…
Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color
Illustration of the working principle and capabilities of a programmable nonlinear waveguide. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09620-9 Cornell…
Physicists improve precision of atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise
The new method, which the researchers dub “global phase spectroscopy,” offers a way to keep an atomic clock’s…
Einstein’s violin and the scholar who made it his obsession
Albert Einstein said that if he had not been a physicist, he would have been a musician. “Most…
Scientists Reveal What a Single Photon Really Looks Like for the First Time
A visualization of a photon made by the authors of the new study. Credit: Benjamin Yuen When we…
Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang : ScienceAlert
If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own…
Quantum-amplified global-phase spectroscopy on an optical clock transition
Ludlow, A. D., Boyd, M. M., Ye, J., Peik, E. & Schmidt, P. O. Optical atomic clocks. Rev.…
Relativistic Mott transition in twisted WSe2 tetralayers
Novoselov, K. S. et al. Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene. Nature 438, 197–200 (2005). Article …
Dark matter may end our universe in a ‘Big Crunch’
Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven…