University spin-out firms offer physicists the chance to apply their knowledge in a commercial setting, but the path to success for founders and their employees has its ups and downs, as Margaret ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Superconductivity occurs when electrical current moves without resistance, a phenomenon that gave rise to particle accelerators, magnetic resonance imagining machines and trains ...

Quantum computers, which operate leveraging quantum mechanics phenomena, could eventually tackle some optimization and ...

A quantum spin liquid is a phase of matter in which the magnetic moments in a material do not align or freeze, even at ...

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) constitute a platform to explore various quantum effects. Their size-dependent colors are essentially a naked-eye, ambient-condition visualization of the quantum ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them quantum physicists – up at night for decades. At very small scales, we know ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses— reentrance and temperature chaos—has been mathematically proven for the first time. By extending the Edwards–Anderson model ...