Physics

A team of scientists in Hungary currently published a paper that hints at the presence of a previously unknown subatomic particle. The group first reported finding traces of the particle in 2016, and they now report more traces in a different experiment. If the outcomes are confirmed, the so-called X17 particle could help to explain

After decades of exploration in nature’s most minor domains, physicists have finally found proof that anyons exist. 1st predicted by theorists in the early 1980s, these particle-like objects arise in realms confined to two dimensions and then under certain circumstances– like at temperatures near absolute zero and in the existence of a solid magnetic field.

Several science students may imagine a ball rolling down a hill or a car skidding due to friction as prototypical examples of the systems physicists care about. However, much of modern physics consists of looking for objects and essentially invisible sensations: the small electrons of quantum physics and the particles concealed within odd steels of

By shining a laser pulse series inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have produced a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the advantages of two-time dimensions despite there still being just one particular flow of time, as the physicists report on July 20 in Nature. This mind-bending

Richard Feynman once stated that the double-slit experiment reveals the central challenges of quantum mechanics, putting us ”up against the and peculiarities of nature and paradoxes and mysteries”. Nandini Mukherjee, Richard Zare, and their co-workers at Stanford University, United States, have currently revealed that when helium (He) atoms collide with deuterium molecules (D2) in a quantum