Browse Physics

Shock waves in solids can propagate as a single structure made up of two zones with different mechanical properties.

Bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen burn spontaneously if they are small enough.

Liquid helium-4 is integral in a source of slow-moving neutrons, with a five-fold increase in yield in density.

Magnetism may propel liquids in a pump without moving parts.

Dense plasmas created by lasers used for inertial confinement fusion research have been used to extract precise basic nuclear physics data.

Researchers propose using ultracold polar molecules to simulate the t-J model, the cornerstone of many theoretical efforts to understand high-temperature superconductivity.

A new algorithm is able to efficiently identify the clusters of nodes, called communities, that tend to form in networks.

Under very high pressures hydrogen may combine with platinum to produce new structural phases and high-temperature superconductivity.

Ridges and dips provide control of how a drop of liquid, despite extreme mobility, moves on a very hot surface.

Smallish black holes left behind from the early universe might cause detectible vibrations as they pass through the sun or other stars.

Photoemission measurements detect the effects of local curvature on the band structure of suspended graphene.

Magnetic ordering in a low-dimensional spin system cannot be generally excluded in the presence of spin-orbit interactions.

To complement normal NMR spectroscopy performed in high magnetic fields, researchers are developing a technique that works in nearly zero fields.

When searching for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers have to keep track of how many places they look.

Researchers have developed a new technique to determine how far vibrational excitations travel before they scatter, an important parameter for some nanoscale devices.

A theoretical proposal shows how pure quantum states can be turned into long-lasting states that are protected from decoherence.

A gas of excited-state atoms could perform as a single-photon detector.

A two-dimensional trap takes advantage of the magnetic domain walls in a narrow wire to guide the thermal motion of magnetic particles.

Researchers use a laser pulse to manipulate excitons confined in quantum dots.

New research explains how a novel type of rechargeable battery is able to sequester defects, so that ions can move more easily between electrodes.