Solar cells and computer chips need silicon layers that are as perfect as possible. Every imperfection in the crystalline ...

A Purdue University-led team of researchers observed electrons transition from a topologically ordered phase to a broken symmetry phase. "To our knowledge, a transition across the two groups of phases ...

Scientists discovered a new type of structural phase transition of an organic crystal called the photo-triggered phase transition. Under this phenomenon, the crystal, which exhibits a thermal ...

A team of physicists recently used a string-theory technique to reveal that we're on the cusp of detecting phase transitions in the early universe through their gravitational wave signature.

Phase transitions are a familiar part of daily life. Whenever you see ice melting (solid to liquid), or steam coming from a teakettle (liquid to gas), you've just experienced a phase transition.

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 was announced this morning, with David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz, winning "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase ...

More information: Pradeep Niroula et al, Phase transition in magic with random quantum circuits, Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02637-3 . Journal information: Nature Physics ...

The specific phase transition that messed up my sunrise photos is a gas-to-liquid transition, in which water vapor in the air comes in contact with a cooler surface, and condenses into a small ...

Further evidence that the brain undergoes a continuous phase transition when we awaken from sleep has been discovered by physicists in Brazil. The team studied patterns in the spiking of neurons in ...