Recent Articles
The Giant Permittivity of Nanoconfined Water
Researchers have proposed that long-range molecular dipole correlations alter water’s electrical properties when it’s confined in a gap a few nanometers wide. Read More »
Simulating Particle Creation with Cold Atoms
Researchers observe atoms trapped in an optical lattice mimicking particles created in a strong electric field. Read More »
Quantum Light Reveals How Solvents Affect Molecules
Pairs of photons provide a gentle way to measure the impact of a molecule’s environment on its ultrafast dynamics. Read More »
The Unexpected Ubiquity of the Phonon Thermal Hall Effect
The discovery of a thermal version of the Hall effect in common semiconductors challenges our understanding of how magnetic fields and heat fluxes interact within solids. Read More »
Quasicrystalline Water Waves
A pattern of surface waves bestowed with fivefold symmetry hosts topological structures. Read More »
Beware the Funnel: When Simplifying Dynamics Can Mislead
Simplified models of systems with fast and slow dynamics can miss a narrow region of phase space—a “singular funnel”—leading to misleading predictions of the system’s behavior. Read More »
Gallium Anomaly May Finally Be Explained
A decades-old neutrino mystery might be solved not by undiscovered physics but by improved calculations. Read More »
A Type-I Superconductor Breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry
A hallmark property of unconventional superconductivity has been discovered in a type-I superconductor, whereas it’s normally observed only in type-II materials. Read More »
How to Tell If Your Excitons Have Condensed
A newly predicted effect should provide a clean way to distinguish between a Bose-Einstein condensate of quasiparticles called excitons and a more mundane collection of these particles. Read More »
