Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

An international team of scientists led by Rice University's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons ...

SISSA will host an event as part of the PhD for Innovation programme, in the Big Meeting Room (7th floor).The guest speaker will be Xiaochuan (Giovanni) Ge, a SISSA alumnus and now Vice President of ...

A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering ...

Researchers from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering are the first to demonstrate a simple and tunable method for ...

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According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

Condensed matter physics explores the emergent phenomena that arise from the collective interactions among an immense number of electrons, ions and other quasiparticles within solids and liquids.

condensed matter physics. Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates . By Daniel Garisto. May 29, 2024. Read Later. Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions ...

Condensed matter physics research has already given us semiconductors, optical fibres, lasers, nanofabrication, new chemical reactions, and quantum computing. June 21, 2025 e-Paper.

Hopfield started his career in the 1960s working out the physics of semiconductors. But by the end of the decade, “I had run out of problems in condensed matter physics to which my particular talents ...

In the context of condensed matter physics, the quantum geometry of the electron wave functions controls the motion of electrons and thus affects the fundamental physical properties of matter.