Browse Physics

A conceptual framework that describes the fluidlike flow of dry granular materials also works for particles suspended in a liquid.

The anisotropic hyperfine interaction allows entanglement of two nuclear spins using microwave pulses.

How nodes connect to each other may explain why we don’t see certain classes of networks.

A new electrostatic levitation study clarifies how the strings and clusters of atoms that appear in a cooling molten liquid affect diffusion.

Photoemission performed with circular polarized light can detect the chirality of electronic wave functions in single- and double-layer graphene.

A form of quantum electrodynamics emerges from interacting spins at low temperatures in the spin ice ${\text{Yb}}_2{\text{Ti}}_2{\text{O}}_7$.

The coupling between nitrogen vacancy centers can be dramatically improved through the use of electromagnetic driving fields.

Modified photonic structures from the wings of weevil beetles set a new record for optical emission control.

Combining operations with one and two spin qubits may lead to superior quantum computers.

New beam splitter techniques extend the world of precision experiments with matter waves.

Electric-field control of the spin-orbit field in [111] quantum wells lengthens the spin coherence time.

Techniques for using a quantum computer to simulate another quantum system will work even when the modeled system is not isolated from its environment.

Excited cold atoms in Rydberg states behave similarly to certain spin systems, providing us with a versatile toolbox with which to study nonequilibrium phenomena.

The Airy plasmon is unique since it represents the only possible one-dimensional diffraction-free solution.

AFM experiments suggest the long lifetime of surface nanobubbles is due to a balanced influx and outflux of gas molecules.

Although the quantum Rabi model is the simplest model describing the coupling of quantum light and matter, only now has an analytical solution been found.

A microscopic model offers new insight into a pernicious source of electric field noise in ion traps.

Researchers predict that Majorana fermions can be found in magnetic field vortices in the bulk of the superconductor ${\text{Cu}}_x{\text{Bi}}_2{\text{Se}}_3$.

The dramatic speed-up of fluid flow in a drying drop of a colloidal suspension controls the pattern of order and disorder in the particle stain that is left behind.

New STM experiments resolve the nodal structure of individual orbitals of single organic molecules.