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 ...

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

A new set of simple equations can fast-track the search for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a Nobel-Prize-winning class of ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...

What if you could create new materials just by shining a light them? To most, this sounds fantastical, but to physicists ...

Scientists have discovered a new quantum state of matter that connects two significant areas of physics, potentially leading ...

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