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 ...

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney have proven that ...

Earlier this month Vodeb and his colleagues published the findings of their cosmic bubble simulation in Nature Physics. Using ...

The international team also used the data to get direct information about the deformation of the atomic nucleus in ytterbium ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — String theory remains elusive as a 'provable' phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative ...

Researchers have discovered unexpected 1D-like spin behavior in a triangular molecular lattice, challenging the conventional ...

Protons are far from simple particles — they are swirling cauldrons of quarks, gluons, and quantum entanglement. Scientists ...

In this paper, we present a derivation of the relativistic equations of Quantum Mechanics. We focus on the second ... all powers of the derivative operator and thereby a nonlocal theory. Such theories ...

As if AI itself weren't futuristic enough, now there's a whole new leap forward on the horizon: quantum AI. It's a fusion of artificial intelligence with unconventional and still largely ...

We present a fully quantum model for the excitation of a bound electron based on the “free-electron bound-electron resonant interaction” (FEBERI) scheme. The bound electron is modeled as a quantum two ...