A New Supersolid Born From Light Pushes the Limits of Physics
With properties of a superfluid but with a crystalline structure, supersolids have previously only been observed in ultracold ...
Newsweek23 天
Scientists Have Turned Light Into a Supersolid—Here's Why That's a Big Deal
Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...
Princeton University9 年
Imaging Physics Group
Our group studies the physics of imaging and new methods of imaging physics. Examples include optical hydrodynamics, in which the propagation of light is described in terms of fluid flow, statistical ...
Nature2 年
The light-based tech behind some of physics’ biggest breakthroughs
In the early 1980s, Japanese physicist Masatoshi Koshiba was constructing a pioneering experimental facility to detect neutrinos from the Sun. Neutrinos are chargeless, invisible and notoriously ...
The Brighterside of News on MSN5 个月
Breakthrough quantum physics experiment proves light travels in both space and time
A groundbreaking achievement by physicists from Imperial College London has brought new insights into quantum physics by ...
EurekAlert!6 天
A multimodal light manipulator
Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light ...
University of Bristol7 年
Quantum physics sheds light on Riemann hypothesis
The Riemann Hypothesis is widely regarded as the most important unsolved problem in mathematics. Put forward by Bernhard Riemann in 1859, it concerns the positions of the zeros of the Riemann zeta ...