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A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...achievements in math, physics, astronomy and public affairs. H. T. Yau of Harvard University commenced the math section, launching into Dyson’s work on the universality of random matrices. George Andrews...
He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass
...It’s not an accident. There are several special things about diamonds that make them great for quantum physics. Humans love diamonds because diamonds are transparent and sparkly, which is related...
Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry
...supporting life. It’s not the only plausible hypothesis, but “it’s one of the coolest because it ties geophysics to geochemistry, to prebiotic chemistry, [and] ultimately to biochemistry,” said Gerald Joyce,...
New Support for Alternative Quantum View
...is exactly what the standard view of quantum mechanics, often called the Copenhagen interpretation, asks us to believe. Instead of the clear-cut positions and movements of Newtonian physics, we have...
How Big Can the Quantum World Be? Physicists Probe the Limits.
...as motionless as the laws of physics permit. Two teams of researchers, in Austria and Switzerland, have independently succeeded in freezing such minuscule nanoparticles, just 100 to 140 nanometers across,...
![An illustration showing three stacked sheets of carbon atoms, each offset from the one below by half a lattice spacing.]](https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Trilayer_Graphene_520x292.jpg)
Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped
...of 20th-century physics who tried and failed to understand why many metals carry current without resistance at low temperatures. In 1957, nearly half a century after this standard kind of...
Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
...traveling through space. In that way it almost seems weirder than entanglement.” In a paper published in the New Journal of Physics in September, Pollak and two colleagues argued that...
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
...an internal matter of physics, as one of its relation to philosophy and human knowledge in general.” In other words, there’s a lot riding on the reality (or not) of...
Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter
...information,” said Tetyana Galatyuk, one of the 200 members of the HADES collaboration. The experiment, reported this week in Nature Physics, is the first to measure the temperature of quark...