Twisted materials—known as moiré structures—have revolutionized modern physics, emerging as today's "alchemy" by creating ...

Explore the fundamental concept of matter in physics, everything that makes up the physical world around us. Matter is not ...

An ultra-small change in temperature can lead to a completely new phase of matter.

Physicists with the U.S. Department of Energy have discovered a new phase of matter—and, with apologies to George R. R. Martin, it's something of "a song of ice and fire." The duo from the ...

WashU physicists shine a microwave laser into a chunk of diamond to create a time quasicrystal, a new phase of matter that repeats precise patterns in time and space. Credit: WashU In a new and ...

Physicists have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material. The discovery of this "half-ice, half-fire" state could one day result in applications in the ...

Researchers have created a new phase of matter, expanding on the 2016 creation of time crystals to create a more complex version.

Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.

The first two-dimensional Bose glass—a unique phase of matter that defies statistical mechanics—has been developed by physicists at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory. The study's specifics ...

Physicists have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics.

Scientists at Northwestern University have identified components of neurons that match up to materials undergoing a phase shift – a transition from one state of matter, like a liquid, to another ...

A team of Harvard researchers working with the quantum computing company Quantinuum announced the creation of a new phase of matter in a research paper last month.