Physicists build three-flavor quantum system to probe competing forces
What happens when three different kinds of particles interact, and each pair behaves differently? Physicists have now recreated…
Scientists discover a new quantum state of matter that functions at room temperature
Researchers observed a room-temperature supersolid phase in a condensate made from hybrid light-matter particles called exciton polaritons.Randomly positioned…
Particle Physicists Are Getting a First Glimpse Into the ‘Zeptoverse’
The Large Hadron Collider has been slamming protons together for years. But recently, a proton collision produced an…
Scientists made a pattern in light that survives a broken quantum bond
Quantum computers could become far more powerful if scientists could connect them through networks, allowing them to share…
Schrödinger’s toy hidden-variable model revealed in unpublished manuscript
An unpublished, undated manuscript belonging to Erwin Schrödinger lies in the Austrian Central Library for Physics at the…
Narrow-linewidth, piezoelectrically tunable photonic integrated blue laser
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Intrinsic backward emission of coherent Raman photons from homogeneous media
Guided by the theoretical analysis presented above, we implemented an excitation geometry optimized for the direct generation of…
Experimental demonstration of attosecond hard X-ray pulses
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Scientists find quantum link in how fast systems reach thermal balance
Physicists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the University of Geneva have proven…
Controllable transient coherent state reproduction in lasers
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Scientists Discover a Strange New Quantum State Where Two Materials Meet
Artistic illustration of electrons interacting at the interface between a one-atom-thick material and a metal, forming an unusual…
Are Wormholes a Scientific Dead End?
To quote an astrophysicist’s answer to a young student’s question, a wormhole is “like a tunnel between two…