Browse Physics

A spacecraft has detected unexpectedly high-energy bursts of gamma rays in storm clouds.

A temperature effect could allow us to dynamically change the stochastic behavior of certain colloidal particles.

Light pulses injected into an array of waveguides form solitons in time and space.

The first experiments to study the quark-gluon plasma at the LHC reveal that even at the hottest temperatures ever produced at a particle accelerator, this extreme state of matter remains the best example of an ideal liquid.

Tuning the area of the Fermi surface of graphene demonstrates the fundamental physics of electron-phonon scattering.

A one of a kind radioactive beam experiment yields new insight for neutron-rich nuclei.

A set of proposed relations among observable quantities may allow strong tests of whether a rapid expansion of the very early universe produced the seeds of the large-scale structure we see today.

How does intrinsic heating from an optical lattice affect the quest for colder atom gases?

Researchers achieve generation of stable and coherent optical rogue waves.

More than a decade’s worth of data collected from the LAGEOS II satellite is offering a new way to test general relativity.

Theorists have predicted that spectacular signals of supersymmetry should be visible at the LHC.

A new analysis clears some of the remaining hurdles to a completely rigorous density-functional theory for calculating the properties of materials at finite temperature.

Spectroscopic mapping of the luminescence of aromatic single molecules reveals the spatial distribution of radiative transitions at submolecular resolution.

Theorists propose a mechanism to induce domain-wall motion in ferromagnetic nanowires that may lead to unprecedented speeds.

Evidence for radiation analogous to that predicted near black holes by Hawking has been found in the emission of optical filaments propagating through glass.

An international team has solved an essential part of a long-standing discrepancy in the electromagnetic decay heat that occurs after fission of the nuclear fuel component plutonium.

The potential discovery of anyons in a fractional quantum Hall device tests the limits of what is known about particles confined to two dimensions.

The experimental realization of quantum degenerate cold Fermi gases with large hyperfine spins opens up a new opportunity for exotic many-body physics.

Observations in nanostructured gold films, impossible until now, confirm theoretical predictions about how optical energy is localized in strongly scattering disordered materials.

A robust measurement scheme indicates that a spin-related torque that speeds up moving domain walls in magnetic nanostructures is larger than previously estimated.