A University of Michigan-led team has discovered quantum oscillations within an insulator’s bulk, overturning conventional ...

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A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...

In a discovery that is likely to impact fields as diverse as atomic physics, chemistry and nanotechnology, researchers have identified a new physical phenomenon, electrostatic rotation, that, in the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Topological monopoles are a quantum physics phenomenon that can decay into what’s known as “Alice rings.” ...

In a new breakthrough, researchers have used a novel technique to confirm a previously undetected physics phenomenon that could be used to improve data storage in the next generation of computer ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

From black holes that appear to break physics to signals from deep space that repeat with eerie precision, the universe holds ...

Secondary particle tracks recorded during a proton collision inside the ATLAS detector, indicating the presence of a single Higgs boson in the event. Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, ...

From 8 to 12 July, the 10th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics will address the scientific challenges of the 21st century in deciphering the nature and phenomena related to the ...