A team of Rice University researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over half a century ago, opening pathways for revolutionary applications in ...

One of the central ideas in modern physics is the phase transition—a sudden transformation of the state of a material. We ...

In a phase transition, a material at rest changes drastically into another state at rest. Now researchers have discovered a ...

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, ...

A research team from southern university of science and technology (SUSTech) has uncovered a new way that quantum matter can change its state: a weak magnetic field triggers a transition from a glassy ...

From its unique properties to the physics of phase transitions, Limei Xu explains how studying water can reveal fundamental ...