Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detects two black hole mergers with rare spin patterns, offering evidence for hierarchical formation and ...

In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away.

The path toward realizing practical quantum technologies begins with understanding the fundamental physics that govern ...

Spin glasses are physical systems in which the small magnetic moments of particles (i.e., spins) interact with each other in ...

Advanced quantum spectroscopy at RIKEN reveals insights into antiproton properties, potentially challenging CPT invariance ...

Today's computers store information in magnetic hard drives, keeping files safe even when the device is powered off. But to ...

Modeling the effects of molecular handedness on electron spin challenges fundamental assumptions in physics, including Onsager reciprocity and time reversal symmetry.

Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of “rotating crystals” — solids made of spinning particles that behave in strange, almost living ways. These odd materials can twist instead of stretch, ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them quantum physicists – up at night for decades. At very small scales, we know ...

Higher Spin Field Theory is a burgeoning area of research that extends the conventional framework of gauge theories and gravity by incorporating fields with spin higher than two. Central to this field ...

As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter and similarly elusive ...