Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid.

Charge density waves (CDWs) are ordered, crystal-like patterns in the arrangement of electrons that spontaneously form inside ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Abstract: Perception and cognition are core processes that transform external sensory signals into internal representations for knowledge construction and understanding, and in visually impaired ...

Quantum materials can behave in surprising ways when many tiny spins act together, producing effects that don’t exist in ...

Researchers report a field-tuned quantum phase transition in a disordered iron-based alloy family, TiFexCu2x−1Sb. Thermodynamic and transport measurements reveal a quantum critical point near 0.13 ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. has a three-step plan for Venezuela that will begin with stabilizing the country after U.S. forces seized leader Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, ensuring U.S. oil ...

The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, established rules waver. In this two-dimensional mode, new states emerge ...

In atomically thin materials, melting does not follow the familiar rules. New observations reveal a fleeting, exotic state between solid and liquid, reshaping scientists’ understanding of phase ...

High school science misses a lot of the science researchers actually work with. For example, you learn that there are three states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas—but in advanced physics, things get ...

ABSTRACT: Dynamic analysis can be an efficient tool to understand and characterize some physical systems at different stages of processing. This is the subject of this paper. We derive analytically ...