An experiment has recorded for the first time dynamical phase transitions in the prethermal regime of a quantum system, together with a phenomenon of resonant melting of its ordered structures. The result expands the catalogue of collective behaviours that emerge in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, a domain where classical thermodynamics no longer applies and where the usual notions of phase and temperature must be reformulated.
A theoretical and experimental study describes long-range quantum spectral entanglement in ultrafast, highly nondegenerate optical systems, where the frequency modes of a frequency… more →
The editors of Physics World have published a new installment of their micro-reviews, a format in which the magazine's editors offer short, compressed verdicts on some of the most… more →
A team of researchers is testing whether large language models can recognise their own internal processes.… more →
Cyprus, the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, exposes at the surface an ancient fragment of the ocean floor.… more →
A study published in Nature reports the observation of a topological edge state driven to the single-particle limit within a locally resonant band gap.… more →