For the first time, physicists have built a two-dimensional experimental system that allows them to study the physical properties of materials theorized to exist only in four-dimensional space. An ...

Could reality be made of more dimensions than those we perceive? The question has consumed some of the most brilliant physics ...

When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...

Supersolid result Physicists have produced a two-dimensional supersolid quantum gas in the laboratory for the first time. (Courtesy: IQOQI Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch) Atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate ...

We realize such a 2D topological pump using arrays of coupled waveguides (Fig. 1b). Each array is constructed to emulate the 2D pump (equation (1) with b x = 1/3 and b y = 1/3), using 7 rows and 13 ...

The path toward realizing practical quantum technologies begins with understanding the fundamental physics that govern quantum behavior—and how those phenomena can be harnessed in real materials.

Djuna Croon receives funding from the University of Sussex. Sometimes, the hardest job for a theoretical physicist is telling the story. The work in this field can be conducted entirely in the ...

Unlike regular computers where data is stored in binary bits as 0 or 1, the “qubits” in quantum computers can exist as both at the same time. Stranger still, this information can be effectively ...

Physics education is a subject that is almost as big as physics itself, and in some ways it is even more complex. Although the laws of physics are the same in Belfast, Bologna and Berlin, the way in ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of physics has scientists abuzz with the potential confirmation of a portal to other dimensions. While the concept feels like science fiction, recent findings ...