Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study suggests ancient gravitational waves may have helped create dark matter in the early universe. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two Physical Review A papers outline how anyons could exist in one dimension, and how cold-atom experiments might spot them.

Scientists have observed a unique particle that moves easily one way, yet resists at 90 degrees. These semi-Dirac fermions were observed using their energy signature in a topological metal. Particles ...

Embezzlement of entanglement is an exotic phenomenon in quantum information science, describing the possibility of extracting entanglement from a resource system without changing its quantum state. In ...

One of the cleanest rules in theoretical physics may have a crack in it. A preprint posted in May 2026 by physicists Vladimir ...

For the first time, scientists have observed a collection of particles, also known as a quasiparticle, that's massless when moving one direction but has mass in the other direction. The quasiparticle, ...

For 16 years, scientists hypothesized the existence of a quasi-particle called a semi-Dirac fermion, named after mathematician Paul Dirac whose eponymous equation describes these fermions. Now, a new ...

Physicists captured the first images that directly show the pairing of fermions. The snapshots of particles pairing up in a cloud of atoms can provide clues to how electrons pair up in a ...

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the ...