According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

Irish physicist William Rowan Hamilton’s pioneering work contained hints of the enigmatic wave–particle duality that governs ...

Researchers Mitsuyoshi Kamba, Naoki Hara, and Kiyotaka Aikawa of the University of Tokyo have successfully demonstrated quantum squeezing of the motion of a nanoscale particle, a motion whose ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

Researchers Mitsuyoshi Kamba, Naoki Hara, and Kiyotaka Aikawa of the University of Tokyo have demonstrated that the motion of a nanoscale particle can be quantum squeezed, meaning its motion can ...

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A two-dimensional representation of a ten-dimensional hypercube. A RIKEN researcher has shown that quantum Ising models lack local conserved quantities even in such high-dimensional systems. (Image: ...

Typically, the charge of electrons is used to store and process information in electronics-based devices. In spintronics, the ...

Theoretical physicists develop mathematical models to describe material systems, which they can then use to make predictions about how materials will behave. One of the most important models is the ...

Flying objects over Kansas City on Thursday night sparked the interest of locals and – for a while – had stumped people looking for answers. KMBC 9 in Kansas City said on Twitter it had fielded ...

One-way heat transfer demonstrated in topological thermal metaphotonics offers new avenues for efficient thermal management ...