Researchers have discovered a simple yet powerful way to protect atoms from losing information—a key challenge in developing ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

Each quark has a spin of 1/2, so you might simply think that so long as one spins in the opposite direction of the other two, you'd get the proton's spin. Up until the 1980s, that's exactly how ...

For decades, ferromagnetic materials have driven technologies like magnetic hard drives, magnetic random access memories and oscillators. But antiferromagnetic materials, if only they could be ...

Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called "superfluid." Superfluids, such as ultracold atomic gases or helium-4 below specific ...

Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new method for creating quantum states by twisting materials at the M-point, revealing exotic phenomena previously out of reach. This new direction ...

If he had discussed the spin idea with others, probably few in the physics community (except, potentially, for Werner Heisenberg, who was also thinking about half-integer quantum numbers) wou ld ...

Electron spin control of optically levitated nanodiamonds in vacuum . Thai M. Hoang 1, Jonghoon Ahn 2, Jaehoon Bang 2 & Tongcang Li 1,2,3,4. 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, ...

An elusive form of matter called a quantum spin liquid isn’t a liquid, and it doesn’t spin — but it sure is quantum. Predicted nearly 50 years ago, quantum spin liquids have long evaded ...

The fine-structure constant is 10 times its normal value in the material, giving a peek into what physics in an alternate universe could look like.

The best angle for your racquet's forward face is around 50 degrees, or less, relative to the surface of the ground. This puts spin on the ball, but also makes it a lot easier to ding the ball ...