This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Physicists have observed a strange new quantum phase in a graphene-based system, where a superfluid appears to freeze into a solid-like state. Cooling usually pushes matter through a simple sequence.

The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...

Unlike conventional layered antiferromagnets, in which magnetic layers flip one by one and can disrupt the overall magnetic state, the newly studied material switches in an "interlayer-locked" manner.

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles sprung from nothing Quantum physics paints a ...

A team of theoretical researchers has found duality can unveil non-invertible symmetry protected topological phases, which ...

For a century, the Schrödinger equation has been the bedrock of quantum mechanics, successfully predicting how matter behaves as a wave. Yet, physics has lacked a fundamental explanation for why ...

A study shows that polarons can host stable atomic distortion patterns, reshaping how charge and energy move in materials ...