The physics desk
Physics from the quantum to the cosmos: particle physics, quantum computing, astrophysics, cosmology and the discoveries that change what is possible.
The LHCb collaboration announces the detection of a baryon made of two charm quarks at 7-sigma statistical significance, becoming the 80th particle ever found at the Large Hadron Collider.
By squeezing terahertz light smaller than its own wavelength, MIT physicists captured the synchronized quantum oscillations of Cooper pairs in BSCCO — a step toward understanding room-temperature superconductivity.
The Xi-cc-plus particle — four times heavier than a proton and built from two charm quarks — was detected at 7 sigma significance using Run 3 collision data and the upgraded LHCb detector.
Researchers trigger exotic Floquet oscillations using minimal energy in magnetic vortices, challenging existing physics assumptions and potentially linking different quantum technologies.
Scientists achieve 20-fold brightness boost by placing tungsten disulfide over tiny air cavities, overcoming major limitations of atomically thin devices through innovative void design.
Researchers in South Africa and China found that entangled photons carry over 17,000 distinct topological signatures across 48 dimensions — a free resource sitting in standard quantum optics setups.
Advanced simulations reveal how stellar rotation drives material mixing in red giant stars, explaining decades-old chemical observations.
New simulations reveal stellar rotation drives material transport across previously unexplained barriers inside red giant stars.
Scientists create new matter phase where tiny particles interact in unbalanced ways, potentially advancing quantum computing and revealing biological timing secrets.
Atomic movie reveals hidden driver of radiation damage as particles move and rearrange before explosive decay, offering new insights into biological harm.
Scientists capture atoms in motion before radiation-driven decay, showing how atomic movement directly influences harmful processes.
New hollow cavity design boosts brightness 20 times and nonlinear signals 25 times in atom-thick materials, overcoming major limitation.
New design places ultra-thin semiconductors over tiny voids, boosting optical effects by up to 25 times without altering the material itself.
New 3D simulations reveal how stellar rotation dramatically boosts element mixing across previously impenetrable barriers inside massive stars.
Electrons in the exotic C₁₃Cl₂ molecule travel in a corkscrew pattern requiring four loops to return to their starting phase — a quantum behavior only a quantum computer could simulate.
Advanced simulations reveal that stellar rotation dramatically amplifies element mixing, solving a decades-old puzzle about how material reaches star surfaces.
New design uses hollow air cavities beneath atom-thick materials to boost optical signals by up to 25 times, overcoming major limitation of thin devices.
Berkeley Lab's Perlmutter supercomputer modeled a full 10-millimeter quantum chip across 11 billion grid cells, a calculation that could slash the number of expensive physical prototypes needed to build next-generation quantum computers.
A new metasurface design using silver nanocubes traps light in femtosecond-scale films, producing the fastest thermal photodetector ever built and enabling sensors that see across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Scientists discover that stellar rotation dramatically boosts element transport in aging stars, explaining long-observed chemical changes at their surfaces.
New hollow cavity design boosts brightness by 20 times and nonlinear signals by 25 times, overcoming major limitation of ultra-thin materials.
Chinese scientists directly observed the Migdal effect — the ejection of electrons during nuclear recoil — at 5-sigma significance, validating a key theoretical tool for detecting light dark matter.
Researchers at the University of Geneva have made the first experimental measurement of the 'quantum metric' — a geometric property of quantum materials theorized since the early 2000s — with profound implications for superconductors, topological devices, and ultrafast electronics.
A study in Nature Physics reveals that strong electron interactions can produce topological behavior — bridging two previously separate fields of quantum physics in a finding with implications for quantum computing and sensing.
Berkeley Lab researchers used the Perlmutter supercomputer to model a 10-millimeter quantum chip across 11 billion grid cells, catching design flaws before fabrication in a breakthrough that could shorten the quantum computing race by years.
By giving every atom its own miniature mirror resonator to capture escaping photons, Stanford physicists demonstrated a 40-qubit array and a 500-cavity prototype — the clearest route yet to quantum systems far beyond today's best machines.
Using ultrafast laser pulses, physicists captured graphene's electrons reshaping into entirely new quantum states in real time — confirming a two-decade-old theoretical prediction and opening a path to reconfigurable quantum devices.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have filmed in unprecedented slow-motion detail the moment electron spins flip inside an antiferromagnet, revealing two switching mechanisms that could power next-generation ultra-fast, low-energy memory chips.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that specially designed magnetic films follow the same mathematical rules as graphene's electrons — with transformative implications for wireless communications technology.
Using gravitational microlensing and the retired ESA Gaia observatory's parallax data, scientists pinned down the mass and distance of a free-floating world drifting 9,800 light-years from Earth.