Browse Physics

New functionalities might arise from rethinking the essential ingredients needed to build a heat-driven machine.

A generalization of one of the most famous experiments in quantum foundations provides a powerful new unifying concept.

Metallic glasses, new materials that are strong and durable, are not entirely disordered on the atomic scale but can have regions of near-crystalline order.

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.

Short chains of iron atoms deposited on a metal surface could be used to transmit bits of magnetic information.

Specially designed waveguides act like conduits for high-frequency displacement currents.

The binding of two proteins is strongest in regions where the packing of surrounding water molecules is already disrupted.

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.

Measurements of radioactive, neutron-rich isotopes of argon are paving the way for experiments at new facilities that will explore the neutron dripline.

Statistical mechanical models are the key to understanding the performance of error correction in topological quantum computers.

Experiments and simulations lead to a new model for the curling of a thin strip, which could be useful for plant growth and micromechanics.

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

An image analysis program reveals the biomechanics of walking with coffee.

Testing hypotheses about the validity of different dynamical models can now be done on a much wider range of quantum systems.