Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them ...

Nearly half a century ago, physicists proposed that the universe might be trapped in a metastable state known as a false vacuum. This state appears stable but could, over immense timescales, ...

When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their ...

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new technique that uses light to tune the optical ...