Category: 4. Physics

Scientists find a unique knotted structure — one that repeats itself throughout nature — in a ferroelectric nanoparticle, a material with promising applications in microelectronics and computing.

Just as a literature buff might explore a novel…

Quantum entanglement is a process by which microscopic objects like electrons or atoms lose their individuality to become better coordinated with each other.

Entanglement is at the heart of quantum technologies that promise large advances in…

Here’s a new chapter in the story of the miniaturisation of machines: researchers in a laboratory in Singapore have shown that a single atom can function as either an engine or a fridge. Such a device could be engineered into future computers…

Those looking forward to a day when science’s Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little longer as astrophysicists continue to find hints that one of the cosmological constants is not so constant…

Atoms and molecules behave very differently at extreme temperatures and pressures. Although such extreme matter doesn’t exist naturally on the earth, it exists in abundance in the universe, especially in the deep interiors of planets and…

Scientists at Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Alabama Birmingham have discovered a light-induced switching mechanism in a Dirac semimetal.

The mechanism establishes a new way to control the topological…

At the Japanese High-energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK, in Tsukuba, about 50 kilometers north of Tokyo, the Belle II experiment has been in operation for about one year now.

An international team of researchers also from Karlsruhe…

We live in a world of matter – because matter overtook antimatter, though they were both created in equal amounts by the Big Bang when our universe began.

As featured on the cover of Nature on 16 April 2020, neutrinos and the associated…

Nowadays, modern quantum simulators offer a wide range of possibilities to prepare and investigate complex quantum states.

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They are realized with ultracold atoms in optical lattices, Rydberg atoms, trapped ions or superconducting…