Nature categorizes particles into two fundamental types: fermions and bosons. While matter-building particles such as quarks ...

Less than a decade ago, researchers found a peculiar phase of matter where the electrons of a particular compound would behave in two very distinct phases. Some had spins that were very well ...

Physicists with the U.S. Department of Energy have discovered a new phase of matter—and, with apologies to George R. R. Martin, it's something of "a song of ice and fire." The duo from the ...

More information: Xiran Bai et al, Dark Matter Axion Search with HAYSTAC Phase II, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.151006 ...

By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the ...

Physicists have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics. Physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge ...

Their “quipu” is a new phase of matter created within a quantum computer, their strings are atoms, and the knots are generated by patterns of laser pulses that effectively open up a second ...

Fermionic condensates are another type of lab-made matter. A sister phase to the BEC, fermionic condensates were first created in 2004, according to NASA. Fermionic condensates are superfluids ...

“Most of the matter in the universe is at high pressure and temperature, for instance inside planets and stars,” he adds. Now that the chain-melt phase of potassium is confirmed, it joins the ...

Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material. The phase is a ...

The approach’s use of an “extra” time dimension “is a completely different way of thinking about phases of matter,” says Dumitrescu, who worked on the project as a research fellow at the ...