A Universe Without Dark Energy? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmology
A new analysis argues that the standard cosmological model may be fundamentally unstable, raising questions about whether dark…
ICQIA Expands Global Reach With New Charter And Members
Insider Brief The International Council of Quantum Industry Associations expanded its membership by adding UKQuantum and the Korea…
David Gross, Nobel Prize winner in physics: Humanity has a “very small” chance of surviving for another 50 years
Some lines make you pause. Others demand a second reading. David Gross’s words belong firmly in that latter…
Bilayer excitons in the Laughlin fractional quantum Hall state
Luttinger, J. Fermi surface and some simple equilibrium properties of a system of interacting fermions. Phys. Rev. 119,…
Observation of exact quantum critical states
Anderson, P. W. Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices. Phys. Rev. 109, 1492 (1958). Article ADS Google…
Dynamically tunable membrane metasurfaces for infrared spectroscopy and strong light-matter interactions
To investigate the thermal tunability of the Si membrane metasurfaces, we first performed temperature-dependent optical characterization using a…
Physicists Built Quantum States So Strange They Only Existed In Theory, Until Now
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
World’s slowest experiment: inside century-long wait for a single drop
Some science experiments last a few minutes. Some take years. And then there is the Pitch Drop Experiment,…
Orbiting Stars Give Clues to a Quiescent Black Hole’s Mass
How do you measure the mass of a dormant black hole in the early Universe? That’s a question…
New Physics Is Always Tentative; Here’s Why
In proposing new theories in physics, as in other fields, a scientist needs to maintain a posture of…
Realization of fermionic Laughlin state on a quantum processor
The model We realize the topologically ordered Laughlin state on a quantum processor through constructing an HVA for…
Scientists think they solved the mystery of the Amaterasu particle
An ultraheavy particle may help explain one of the most puzzling mysteries in modern astrophysics: the origin of…