An international group of scientists have used laser light shone onto gallium arsenide to make a super-solid - matter which behaves like both a liquid and ...

A team of Rice University researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over ...

Scientists from Rice University announced the first direct observation of a phenomenon called a superradiant phase transition (SRPT).

“We actually made light into a solid. That’s pretty awesome ... But with further refinement, researchers hope that this new ...

My research interests are thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of condensed matter systems, phase transitions and critical phenomena, Ising model and other spin models, solid-liquid phase ...

Discovering and controlling exotic physical states is key in condensed matter physics and materials science. It has the ...

The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron ... those states—are central problems in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science," said paper author Weiguo Yin ...

The innovative solid phase alloying process converts aluminum scrap blended with copper, zinc and magnesium into a precisely designed high-strength aluminum alloy product in a matter of minutes ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a new phase of matter known as a time quasicrystal, an advanced version of time crystals, which were first discovered in 2016.

Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material. The phase is a ...

Hazzard said the achievement shows that concepts from quantum optics can be translated into solid materials. "This opens a new way to create and control phases of matter using ideas from cavity ...