Using hybrid photon-electron quasiparticles – polaritons, an international research team has created an analog of a solid-body crystal lattice. In the resulting polariton lattice, some particles’ energy does not rely on their speed. Simultaneously, the lattice’s geometry, particle concentration, and polarization properties can still be altered.
A new organic-based magnet can transport waves of quantum mechanical magnetization, known as magnons, and transform those waves into electrical signals.
By Brett Smith
19 Mar 2018
A discovery by astronomers shows that irrespective of their size, all galaxies rotate once in every billion years.
It is well known that one day is the time taken by the Earth to spin around on its axis once, and ...
Physics lost an extraordinary individual when Stephen Hawking, world-renowned cosmologist and theoretical physicist died at the age of 76.
By Thomas Hornigold
14 Mar 2018
Metastability can be largely observed in technology and nature. Various features behind the dynamics and behavior of such systems continue to be unrevealed.
The innovative method of making quantum bits from precisely positioned individual atoms in silicon is earning huge rewards.
As rival companies compete to assemble the largest-ever quantum chips, they are of course competing for ‘quantum supremacy’.
By Thomas Hornigold
9 Mar 2018
Superfluidity is a counter-intuitive occurrence where quantum physics and particle-wave duality arise at the macroscopic level.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
8 Mar 2018
It’s well understood by physicists that stars are responsible for building most of the abundance of elements heavier than helium, through nuclear fusion.
By Thomas Hornigold
7 Mar 2018
Researchers have developed a three-dimensional skyrmion in a quantum gas - the existence of which was only previously speculated.
Getting one step closer to developing more energy-efficient memory devices, researchers have used laser pulses to produce controllable stable skyrmions.
Imagine there being a deeper reality - think of our universe as a mere illusion. Ever imagined all of us living in a hologram?
In a research published in the Nature journal on March 1, 2018, astronomers from MIT and Arizona State University state that a table-sized radio antenna in a distant region of Western Australia has picked up weak signals of hydrogen gas from the primordial universe.
A method involving a needle moving a nanoparticle into distinctive orientations to take 2D images, assisting in reconstructing a 3D picture.
Methods similar to those used to train self-driving cars and chess-playing computers are at present assisting physicists in investigating the complexities of the quantum realm.