Browse Physics

Quantum computing could be used to efficiently rank internet sites, according to a theoretical proposal.

Could thermal conditions have been enough to drive fast RNA replication in prebiotic liquids?

Changes in plant tissue geometry with humidity explain how some species bend and turn to disperse their seeds.

Simulations help to visualize the propagation of structural excitations, called phasons, that occur in quasicrystals.

Clues about the briefly liberated quarks and gluons in high-energy collisions lie in the relic hadrons they leave behind.

Single atoms deposited on an iron oxide surface provide a valuable model system for studying catalysis.

The decay of top quarks could reveal physics beyond the standard model, but so far shows nothing unusual.

Alternating layers of insulating materials form a rudimentary device that controls thermal currents.

Piles of staples stand up to shaking better if the staple prongs have an intermediate length.

Pairs of donor atoms read out the energy levels in a silicon nanowire.

Theorists can now calculate the speed with which correlations travel in a chain of interacting atoms.

New techniques for storing and retrieving polarized photons improve the quantum memory capabilities of rare-earth-doped crystals.

Finding the optimal solution to filling a volume with spheres could be useful for modeling nanoparticles.

Researchers have found an exact solution to an equation describing growth of materials at interfaces.

Simulations of skiers predict the danger zones on the slopes.

Spin-noise spectroscopy reveals a functional transition in the spin decay of quantum dots.

The existence of three families of fundamental particles may result from our universe behaving like a topological insulator, according to a theoretical proposal.

Researchers have confined and manipulated electron spin waves in hydrogen gas.

A quantum theory of electrons in mesoscopic systems reveals the intervals at which they arrive after waiting to pass through a gate.

The behavior of freezing transitions in glasses is related to the statistical properties of prime numbers.