A research team led by Haruki Watanabe, a professor in the Department of Physics and the Jockey Club Institute for Advanced ...

A new study published in Physical Review Letters explores the possibility that a strongly supercooled, first-order phase transition in the early universe could explain gravitational wave signals ...

We investigate quantum quenches starting from a critical point and experimentally probe the associated defect statistics using a trapped-ion quantum simulator of the ...

Medical imaging has long faced a stubborn trade-off: the filters and algorithms that clean noise out of a computed tomography ...

Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, so-called order parameters that distinguish symmetry-governed phases of matter can have topological structure. Symmetry constitutes a fundamental concept in physics.

An experiment uncovers the role played by gravity in Ostwald ripening, a spontaneous thermodynamic process responsible for many effects such as the recrystallization of ice cream. Figure 1: The growth ...

The toughness, ductility, and wear resistance of metallic alloys are dictated by the phases present in their microstructure and how these phases are distributed. During heat treatments such as ...

In 1935, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger, two of the most prominent physicists of the day, got into a dispute over the nature of reality. Einstein had done the math and knew that the universe ...