The answer is not a simple particle but a composite entity. A polaron is formed when an electron strongly couples with the ...

In 1867, British physicist, mathematician, and engineer William Thompson (better known as Lord Kelvin) attempted to explain ...

Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of light can physically shift atoms in a class of ultra-thin ...

Researchers uncovered a crucial mechanism that reveals how electrons and atoms interact to create a new quasiparticle and ...

No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter imbalance, the paper stated. A thorough mathematical investigation of this ...

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.