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 ...

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

Phase transitions and critical phenomena are the changes of a system from one regime or state to another exhibiting very different properties, and the unusual effects that occur on the boundary ...

"The moment I hear a sound, sweetness spreads in my mouth." "The moment I see a vivid blue, the scent of soil after rain ...

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 ...

The universe is known to be expanding at an accelerating rate. Physicists typically attribute this acceleration to dark energy, a mysterious component of the universe that exerts negative pressure, ...

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 ...

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 ...