Scientists Discover Time Crystals You Can Hold—and They Levitate
Last year, physicists created a time crystal—atomic arrangements repeating motion patterns—visible to the naked eye. But the latest…
Heralded high-dimensional photon–photon quantum gate
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Highly sensitive and stable perovskite detector for ultrahigh-energy radiations via dynamic repair regulation
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In a first, US scientists turn exciton superfluids into supersolids
In a first, scientists at Columbia University in New York and the University of Texas in Austin turned…
NYU physicists create visible time crystals levitated by sound
A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems…
Super-broadband stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging
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Dissipative solitons in mode-locked parity–time-symmetric lasers
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New optical method bypasses light’s limit by 100,000× to image atoms
For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the tiny world. Microscopes use…
Entangled atomic clouds separated in space boost measurement precision
Measuring the world precisely is much harder than it sounds. At very small scales, nature is noisy, and…
New unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics
By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a…