Physicists have directly observed the electronic building blocks responsible for flat bands in quantum materials, confirming ...

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only ...

Electron movement and structures described in quantum physics allow researchers to better understand how and why materials ...

Light-based quantum technologies, such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing, require reliable sources of ...

Researchers have demonstrated a novel concept for exciting and probing coherent phonons in crystals of a transiently broken symmetry. The key of this concept lies in reducing the symmetry of a crystal ...

For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement ...

This month, Symmetry presents a series of articles on the past, present and future of quantum research—and its many connections to particle physics, astrophysics and computing. On July 25, 2018, a ...

The parity-identification problem fits naturally into this landscape. Parity is a global property, insensitive to most local details. In this respect, it resembles many other quantities studied in ...

Uncertainty, entanglement, spooky action: On the quantum scale, the universe doesn’t work the way you might expect. While driving down the highway, physicist Werner Heisenberg is stopped by a police ...