The promise of superconductivity for electrical power transmission and transportation has long been held back by high costs. Now researchers...
It is one of the most exciting races in modern physics: How can we produce the best superconductors that remain...
A team of physicists has illuminated certain properties of quantum systems by observing how their fluctuations spread over time. The...
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Solids can be melted by heating, but in the quantum world it can also be the other way around: In...
For two decades, it was believed that a possible quantum spin liquid was discovered in a synthetically produced material. In...
Every material possesses a unique natural vibration frequency such that when an external periodic force is applied to this material...
A single species invades an ecosystem causing its collapse. A cyberattack on the power system causes a major breakdown. These...
In the world of computing, we typically think of information as being stored as ones and zeros—also known as binary...
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to...
Modern-day technologies like optical computing, integrated photonics, and digital holography require light signals to be manipulated in three dimensions. To...
Recently-published research from an international team of physicists reveals how the three-dimensional shape of rigid microscopic filaments determines their dynamics...
