An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that ...

Twisted moiré photonic crystals—an advanced type of optical metamaterial—have shown enormous potential in the race to ...

Controlling the arrangement of atomic vacancies offers a new way to adjust electronic, magnetic, thermal, and hydrogen ...

Scientists have developed a new type of time crystal – called a time quasicrystal – that could lead to breakthroughs in ...

In a new and significant breakthrough in the field of quantum physics, a team of researchers from Washington University in St ...

Ever wonder how Earth scientists examine rocks? We cut them up and throw them under a microscope ... and then everything ...

Sapphire glass and quartz glass, as two important optical materials ... However, due to the influence of its crystal structure and chemical composition, the transmittance of sapphire glass in the ...

quartz, and salt take the form of three-dimensional atomic lattices, where the arrangement of the particles therein repeats. You can take any section of the lattice and superimpose it over another and ...

Physicists have long been fascinated by the concept of symmetry breaking, a fundamental principle in physical sciences that underpins the formation of distinct phases of matter. In conventional ...

compares time crystals to diamonds or quartz, whose shape and shine come from highly organized atomic structures, with carbon atoms in diamonds forming repeated, predictable patterns in space.

In their ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of quantum possibilities, physicists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis have created a new type of "time crystal," a novel phase ...