New quantum category: Physicists have revealed a one-dimensional system that could host anyons, particles that defy the boson–fermion classification. Tunable particle behavior: These anyons may be ...

A joint research team that included members from Tohoku University has unveiled a new topological insulator (TI), a unique state of matter that differs from conventional metals, insulators, and ...

Theoretical physicists develop mathematical models to describe material systems, which they can then use to make predictions about how materials will behave. One of the most important models is the ...

Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework for ...

For the first time, physicists have created a one-dimensional gas made out of pure light, and they want to use it to study how photons, or particles of light, behave on a quantum level. Scientists ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that self-assembled phosphorus chains can host genuinely one-dimensional electron behavior. Using advanced imaging and spectroscopy techniques, they ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That’s the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues ...