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You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

Researchers at Santa Clara University have developed a comprehensive mathematical framework to rigorously analyze and predict ...

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...

By squeezing terahertz light beyond its usual limits, researchers have exposed hidden quantum "jiggles" inside a ...

With the terahertz scope, the team observed a frictionless “superfluid” of superconducting electrons that were collectively ...

Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data – from experimental records of crystal structures and ...

A new publication DOI 10.29026/oes.2026.250031, discusses an integrated metasurface-freeform system enabled multi-focal ...

High-entropy alloys are promising advanced materials for demanding applications, but discovering useful compositions is difficult and expensive due to the vast number of possible element combinations.

Physicists have finally watched positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, behave like a rippling quantum wave instead of a tiny billiard ball. In a set of ...

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For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...