Researchers from Tsinghua University and Nanyang Technological University have achieved a major breakthrough in optical skyrmions — tiny topological “knots” of light that are highly promising for future high-capacity and secure data transmission.

By adapting an algorithm from the 1980s to mathematical objects called tensor networks, researchers at the Flatiron Institute show that classical computers can tackle a class of problems previously claimed to be solvable only by quantum computers

A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute, the Ferdinand Braun Institute, the University of Augsburg, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has succeeded in directly imaging the effect of short current pulses on a skyrmion.

Theorists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign address an experimental paradox by developing a general theory uniting a kind of order known as electronic nematicity with a crystal’s elasticity.

Researchers build world’s smallest interferometer to measure how X-rays and atomic nuclei interact

The researchers study the performance of the PLATON demonstrator by characterising its spatial resolution with data collected in the laboratory for light intensities ranging from a few hundred down to five detected photons.

An international team at GSI/FAIR has observed for the first time an exotic bound state of a carbon-11 nucleus and an η′ meson, held together solely by the strong interaction. The discovery confirms a 20-year-old prediction and reveals that the η′ meson mass decreases inside nuclear matter, offering new insight into the origin of mass in strongly interacting particles.

Quantum physicists at ANU have observed helium atoms entangled in motion for the first time, demonstrating that massive particles with gravity can exist in two places at once and interfere with themselves. This milestone advances quantum mechanics experiments beyond photons, opening new paths to explore the interface between quantum physics and gravity.

Electrons can be ‘kicked across’ solar materials at almost the fastest speed nature allows, scientists have discovered – challenging long-held theories about how solar energy systems work. The finding could help researchers design more efficient ways of harvesting sunlight and converting it into electricity. In experiments capturing events lasting just 18 femtoseconds – less than 20 quadrillionths of a second – researchers at the University of Cambridge observed charge separa

The team developed a platform that uses powerful X-rays from the lab’s LCLS X-ray laser to resolve for the first time the evolution of instabilities in high-density plasmas.

The three atoms of the excited NeKr 2 trimer keep roaming around each other for up to one picosecond. © FHI Together with an international team, researchers from the Molecular Physics Department at the Fritz Haber Institute revealed how atoms rearrange themselves before releasing low-energy electrons in a decay process initiated by X-ray irradiation. For the first time, they gain detailed insights into the timing of the process – shedding light on related radiation damage me

In a landmark achievement at the confluence of artificial intelligence and fundamental physics, a team of researchers from Tongji University, the Chinese university of Hong Kong and Nanyang Technological University has developed an AI algorithm capable of classifying complex topological phases of matter without relying on the mathematical tools that have limited human scientists for decades. This breakthrough, which tackles the notoriously difficult realm of non-Hermitian sys