WashU physicists build quantum sensors in boron nitride sheets to study magnetism and stress under extreme pressure.

A new study addresses a foundational problem in the theory of driven quantum matter by extending the Středa formula to ...

Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov effect, a state in which the attractive forces ...

The researchers extended existing theoretical models to account for quantum fluctuations and applied these models to flowing condensates, discovering stable density and velocity fluctuation patterns ...

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its ...

Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type ...

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...

The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...