Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

From Fundamental Concepts to Dynamical Mechanisms, by Wolfgang Bietenholz and Uwe-Jens Wiese, Cambridge University Press.

Scientists have designed a topological quantum battery that can charge efficiently without losing energy, using the unique ...

Kobe University researchers have unveiled an interactive web application that transforms the abstract concepts ...

Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails. They perform the quantum coin toss and see heads. Could they be certain that ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

A mathematical model suggests that when a pair of black holes gets quantum entangled, this can give rise to a lumpy ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in physics." The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics," may ...

Physicists claim they may have found a long-awaited explanation for dark energy, the mysterious force that's driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, a new preprint study hints. Their ...