Ever wonder why birds flock together? Or how molecules are organized in water compared to ice? Or if there are phases of matter besides the familiar solid, liquid and gas? These examples of emergent ...

The Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics recently concluded its twenty-third summer on the CU Boulder campus. With support from the National Science Foundation and the University ...

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In a significant development in the field of superconductivity, researchers have successfully achieved robust superconductivity in high magnetic fields using a newly created one-dimensional (1D) ...

Theoretical physicists have established a close connection between the two rapidly developing fields in theoretical physics, quantum information theory and non-invertible symmetries in particle and ...

By including weights associated with particles, researchers in the US, South Korea and Germany have generalized significantly the concept of hyperuniformity of multi-particle systems. Hyperuniformity ...

Describing natural phenomena with geometric language is one of the most important achievements of modern physics. In the context of general relativity, Einstein treats spacetime as a dynamic geometric ...

Graphene violates long-standing physics law to unlock quantum computing potential ...

An optical experiment leads to novel insights into the high-frequency properties of the quantum Hall effect. In a semiconductor, applying a magnetic field perpendicular to the direction of electron ...