Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called "superfluid." ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

Excitons—bound pairs of electrons and an electron hole—are quasiparticles that can arise in solids. While so-called "bright" ...

Supermassive black holes are one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, however scientists continue to chip away at their ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics ...

Electric charge is no longer required to carry information as scientists find a practical way to use spintronics in graphene.

Each quark has a spin of 1/2, so you might simply think that so long as one spins in the opposite direction of the other two, you'd get the proton's spin. Up until the 1980s, that's exactly how ...

An elusive form of matter called a quantum spin liquid isn’t a liquid, and it doesn’t spin — but it sure is quantum. Predicted nearly 50 years ago, quantum spin liquids have long evaded ...

And like so many fundamental facts in physics, spin was found to be technologically useful as well. In the second half of the 20th century, spin was harnessed to develop lasers, ...

By borrowing from the physics of spin glasses, later researchers working on AI could “use all these tools that have been developed for the physics of these old systems.” In 2024, Hopfield and his ...

New face of quantum Having recently established her own research group, physicist Hannah Stern is ready to get to work developing new materials for quantum technologies. (Courtesy: Andy ...