A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study comes at a ...

A team of Rice researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity that could enable transformative ...

Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to ...

An international group of scientists have used laser light shone onto gallium arsenide to make a super-solid - matter which behaves like both a liquid and ...

Scientists from Rice University announced the first direct observation of a phenomenon called a superradiant phase transition ...

Nvidia NVDA.O will open a quantum computing research lab in Boston, where it plans to collaborate with scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Water molecules on the surface of an electrode flip just before they give up electrons to form oxygen – a feat of nanoscale ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

Quantum systems are known to be prone to dissipation, a process that entails the irreversible loss of energy and that is ...

Computers rule the world. We use them in our offices, our factories, and in our smartphones. In research and industry, ...

Researchers, led by graduate student Anthony Raykh, found that a mixture of oil, water, and magnetized nickel particles can form a specific shape—a curvaceous urn—that consistently reappears even ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for ...