Quantum computers hold the potential to revolutionize the possibilities for solving difficult computational problems that would take classical computers many years to resolve. But for those computers ...

To melt a solid, heat it. To freeze a liquid, cool it. It's simple—except when it isn't, because quantum mechanics can flip even the intuitive logic of melting and freezing on its head. Physicists ...

Recent advances in the study of quantum fluids and phase transitions on graphene have opened new avenues for understanding low-dimensional quantum phenomena and harnessing their potential for future ...

The Einstein-de Haas effect has been observed in a quantum fluid, showing that changes in magnetization transfer angular momentum from atomic spins to collective motion. (Nanowerk News) In 1915, ...

Quantum turbulence The swirling patterns in Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” can help us visualize the quantum Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). The central spiral and surrounding stars and ...

For nearly a century, some of the simplest questions in quantum theory have stubbornly resisted clean answers, turning basic ...

A giant quantum vortex may allow researchers to study black holes. This vortex is an eddy in a special form of liquid helium that displays quantum effects. The result has some properties similar to ...

A never-before-observed phenomenon in quantum physics reportedly bears a striking resemblance to a world-famous work by Vincent van Gogh. Physicists from Osaka Metropolitan University and the Korea ...

As anyone who's ever seen a science fiction movie knows, whipping up a black hole in a laboratory doesn't seem like such a good idea. But that didn't stop researchers in England who wanted to see if ...

Every fluid -- from Earth's atmosphere to blood pumping through the human body -- has viscosity, a quantifiable characteristic describing how the fluid will deform when it encounters some other matter ...

In a spinor-dipolar Bose–Einstein condensate of europium atoms, near-zero magnetic fields allow dipole–dipole interactions to drive spin relaxation, producing circulating flow in the quantum fluid.