Latest Data Rule Out a Leading Explanation of a Neutrino Anomaly
August 21, 2025• Physics 18, s115 The MicroBooNE experiment’s five-year dataset has shown that an unpredicted neutrino-flavor oscillation…
Strong-interaction-driven quadrupolar-to-dipolar exciton transitions in a trilayer moiré superlattice
Wang, G. et al. Colloquium: excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 021001 (2018).…
New Device for Detecting Lightweight Dark Matter
August 20, 2025• Physics 18, s104 Superconducting sensors can detect single low-energy photons. Researchers have now used this…
Néel spin-orbit torque in antiferromagnetic quantum spin and anomalous Hall insulators
Formalism We extend the Kane-Mele model by including a collinear AFM order which is exchange coupled to the…
Exoplanets suffering from a plague of dark matter could turn into black holes – Physics World
Exoplanets suffering from a plague of dark matter could turn into black holes – Physics World Skip to…
Entangled clocks may reveal where quantum physics and gravity meet
One of the deepest puzzles in modern science is how quantum mechanics and general relativity — the two…
Universal quantum gate set for Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill logical qubits
GKP code Here we give some background on GKP codes, highlighting some of the more salient features in…
Physicists discover a new proton magic number – Physics World
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First protein-based quantum bit could change biological research
In an interesting development, the team at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME)…
‘Eye of Sauron’ blazar is source of a powerful cosmic jet
The Eye of Sauron is a striking image of the plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, seen…
Optical signatures of interlayer electron coherence in a bilayer semiconductor
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct-gap semiconductors that can host optically bright excitons corresponding to Coulomb-bound electron–hole pairs. Due…
A lithography-free approach to polaritonic Luneburg lenses
Gradient indices from dielectric environment engineering The propagation of polaritons is significantly influenced by the surrounding dielectric environment,…