Physics

DFT+DMFT calculations of waterfalls in cuprates. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55465-7 A kind of umbilical cord between different quantum states can …

Illustration of the material’s transition, with time represented from left to right. A laser pulse (left) sends the material into disorder (middle). …

NSLS-II beamline scientists (top row, left to right) Jonathan Pelliciari, Claudio Mazzoli, (bottom row, left to right) Andi Barbour, Valentina Bisogni, Shiyu …

Generation of circularly polarized nonlinear signals from chiral metasurfaces with rotational symmetry under arbitrarily polarized excitation. Credit: SUTD Left and right circularly …

The ion trap of the new In+/Yb+ crystal clock in its vacuum chamber. Credit: PTB The next generation of atomic clocks “ticks” …

Applying a voltage to lanthanum strontium manganite (LSMO) can cause it to separate into distinct regions with dramatically different magnetic properties, as …

The phase diagram of a 3-dimensional Rashba system. “FM” is a ferromagnetic phase while “PM” is a paramagnetic phase. The horizontal axis …

The image shows the difference between an energetic jet emerging from a proton–proton (p–p) collision, where no quark-gluon plasma (QGP) forms, and …

Researchers developed tapered polymer optical fibers that are optimized for delivering light to the brain. A scanning electron microscopy image of one …

In an artist’s impression of a recent MIT experiment, a central sphere represents a qubit, which is irradiated by two control signals: …