On March 27, 1938, Italian physicist Ettore Majorana vanished without a trace at the age of 31. Intellectually brilliant yet emotionally conflicted ...

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

Theoretical model indicates how topologically protected quantum excitations can support qubits that are less sensitive to noise and environmental imperfections.

A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the ...

For the first time, scientists have directly imaged the quantum process underlying superconductivity, a phenomenon in which ...

Researchers have, for the first time, described the properties of one-dimensional anyons and outlined how these particles can be observed using existing experimental setups.

A Majorana fermion is a particle that would be identical to its antiparticle. Such an object has not yet been found. However, ...

A "Majorana fermion" is a particle that would be identical to its antiparticle. Such an object has not yet been found. However, certain solid ...

Quantum states are notoriously fragile, and can be destroyed simply through interactions, measurements, and exposure to their surrounding environments. In a new theoretical study published in Physical ...

When you drill down into the very fabric of reality—where elementary particles make up the matter that is you and me and everything around us in three-dimensional space—things get divided nicely into ...

In three-dimensional particle physics, elementary particles divide nicely into fermions and bosons. But in lower-dimensions, things aren’t so clear cut. These dimensions host a “third kingdom” of ...

A collaboration between the Max Planck Institutes in Halle and Dresden (PI for Microstructure Physics and MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids) has developed a chiral fermionic valve that uses quantum ...