Browse Physics

According to new calculations, prolonged chemical oscillations that occur in the metabolic process of glycolysis can be linked to a single enzyme.

A spin model on a honeycomb lattice points to a much sought after type of quantum spin liquid: the Bose metal.

Colloids containing ellipsoidal particles have two distinct glass transitions.

Metamaterials can act as nonlinear mirrors, reflecting back an incoming electromagnetic wave at twice the frequency.

The interface between two insulators is found to display ferromagnetism and superconductivity.

Researchers demonstrate a robust, high-fidelity, broadband quantum memory that could be used to realize a long-distance quantum repeater for secure communication.

The T2K collaboration in Japan sees strong hints of muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillation.

Rapid frequency variations in the photons generated by a quantum dot pose difficulties for practical applications of new quantum dot materials.

Can quantum theory be derived from more fundamental principles?

Researchers report a possible difference between muon neutrino and muon antineutrino disappearance, which if confirmed will have serious implications for our current theoretical understanding.

Gravitational lensing distorts maps of the cosmic microwave background, providing yet another way of probing the matter and energy content of the universe.

Theoretical analysis of periodic RNA modifications in a simple biochemical reactor reveals emergent evolutionary properties.

Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, can be multiply folded in a controlled way into various types of single or periodic structures with intriguing properties.

Researchers have detected spin flips of a single proton, a first step toward precision measurements of the antiproton’s spin magnetic moment.

A new method to generate ultrabright single-mode biphotons using a backward-wave parametric oscillator is proposed.

Measurement of the Coulomb drag correlation in a two-dimensional electron gas provides a quantitative explanation for the movement of electron-hole packets opposite to the expected direction.

On the largest distance scales, the distribution of galaxies appears to be clumpier than the standard cosmological model predicts.

Researchers develop models that could exhibit a fractional quantum Hall effect in the absence of an external magnetic field.

A quick-acting ac field may change the repulsive interaction in a system of correlated electrons to an attractive one.

Experiments suggest that the celebrated “boson peak”—a low-frequency vibrational feature characteristic of amorphous materials—may be related to a well-known phonon singularity in ordered crystalline materials.