Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See
Of all the eccentricities of the quantum realm, time crystals—atomic arrangements that repeat certain motions over time—might be…
Even in our digital world, materials still matter
Shutterstock/JavierLizarazo These days, our lives revolve around the digital world. Money, culture, news, gossip – all of it…
Something From Nothing – Physicists Mimic the “Impossible” Schwinger Effect
Physicists have long wondered whether matter can spontaneously emerge from nothing, a process known as the Schwinger effect.…
Scientists Watch an Atom’s Nucleus Flip in Real Time for the First Time
Artist’s impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
Graphene Electrons Violate Fundamental Law of Physics
Scientists have detected a “Dirac fluid” in graphene, where electrons flow like a nearly perfect liquid and defy…
Scientists discover needle-shaped quantum clusters
When most people think of gold, they picture jewelry or treasure. However, at the atomic scale, gold behaves…
Unifying gravity and quantum theory requires better understanding of time
Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast…
“It’s Its Own New Thing” – Scientists Discover New State of Quantum Matter
UC Irvine physicists have discovered a new phase of quantum matter with unusual electron-hole pairings. The material’s resilience…
Scientists Build Quantum Computer That Snaps Together Like LEGOs
By linking smaller superconducting modules like building blocks, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign achieved near-perfect qubit…
AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer
Quantum computing qubits are arranged in a grid in this artist’s illustration.Credit: Getty Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are…
Origin and stability of generalized Wigner crystallinity in triangular moiré systems
Classical phase diagram and competing charge-ordered states To develop an intuition for the GWC problem, we first construct…
Diffractive tensorized unit for million-TOPS general-purpose computing
Jaeger, H., Noheda, B. & van der Wiel, W. G. Toward a formal theory for computing machines made…