Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Quantum physicists are edging closer to a kind of controlled transmutation, not of lead into gold, but of one electronic reality into another. By steering exotic entities called excitons, researchers ...

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A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

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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.

An analog-digital approach to quantum simulation could lay the foundations for the next generation of supercomputers to finally outpace their classical predecessors. Reading time 3 minutes Quantum ...

A computer simulation shows metallic alloy where atoms (colored spheres) are arranged in subtle chemical patterns beneath a network of dislocations (green lines). These tangled defects move during ...

Flashes like Cherenkov radiation in space may reveal negative-energy ghosts, hinting at gaps in gravity theories.