40-Year Quantum Riddle Solved: Why Are “Strange Metals” So Strange?
Recent research led by Aavishkar Patel from the Flatiron Institute has uncovered a mechanism that sheds light on the peculiar behavior of strange metals, one…
Condensed Matter News
Exotic Matter Uncovered: Physicists Stumble Upon a Material Composed of Bosons
Researchers have discovered a new state of matter, which they call a “bosonic correlated insulator,” a crystalline assembly of bosonic particles, specifically excitons. Take a…
New Possibilities Discovered for Room-Temperature Superconductivity
Scientists discover that triggering superconductivity with a flash of light involves the same fundamental physics that are at work in the more stable states needed…
Unexpected Behavior of Hybrid Matter–Antimatter Atoms in Superfluid Helium Surprises Physicists at CERN
The result may open doors to several lines of research in particle physics and beyond. A hybrid matter–antimatter helium atom containing an antiproton, the proton’s…
Time-Reversal Symmetry-Breaking Magnetic Fields Discovered Inside a Kagome Superconductor
New Insight Into Unconventional Superconductivity Signatures for a novel electronic phase that enables charge to flow spontaneously in loops have been observed in a kagome…
Optically Generated Quantum Fluids of Light Reveal Exotic Matter-Wave States in Condensed Matter Physics Breakthrough
Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Southampton, U.K., used all-optical methods to create an artificial lattice whose nodes house polaritons — quasiparticles that are half-light…
Time Crystals: “Back to Basics” Approach Helps Unravel New Phase of Matter
A new phase of matter, thought to be understandable only using quantum physics, can be studied with far simpler classical methods. Researchers from the University…
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Philip Anderson Dies at Age 96
Philip Warren Anderson, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the postwar era, died Sunday, March 29, at Princeton Windrows, age 96. Anderson was the…
Unraveling One of the Greatest Mysteries in Condensed Matter Physics
Illinois and SLAC researchers use a new technique. One of the greatest mysteries in condensed matter physics is the exact relationship between charge order and…
Third Law of Thermodynamics Restored in Thin Films of Spin Ice
A newly published study reveals that the Third Law of Thermodynamics can be restored in thin films of the magnetic material spin ice. Thin films…
Experimental Evidence Shows Iron-Based Superconductors Exhibit S-Wave Symmetry
While using an instrument to measure the detailed superconducting gap structure of the ferropnictide superconductor BaFe2(As0.7P0.3)2, physicists discovered experimental evidence that iron-based superconductors fall into…
Iron-Based Crystal Superconductor Breaks High-Temperature Record
Superconductivity, a phenomenon that works only at temperatures close to absolute zero, has been proven to work at higher temperatures, as much as 70 kelvin….
