The one-dimensional transverse Ising model is a paradigmatic example of quantum criticality. In spin-orbit coupled systems, however, effective Ising interaction emerges from the interplay between the ...

Medical imaging has long faced a stubborn trade-off: the filters and algorithms that clean noise out of a computed tomography ...

Phase transitions, shifts between different states of matter, are widely explored physical phenomena. So far, these transitions have primarily been studied in three-dimensional (3D) and ...

In a paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers offer a new theory that predicts defect density across a variety of phase transitions. The research ...

Without getting hung up on strict definitions of terms, please read this while focusing on "What is it like in my family's case?"128. Phase TransitionNumber 128, phase transition, refers to a system's ...

Research recently conducted at the University of Wyoming’s Phase Behavior of Nanoconfined Fluids Lab provides new insight ...

An experiment uncovers the role played by gravity in Ostwald ripening, a spontaneous thermodynamic process responsible for many effects such as the recrystallization of ice cream. Figure 1: The growth ...

In 1935, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger, two of the most prominent physicists of the day, got into a dispute over the nature of reality. Einstein had done the math and knew that the universe ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, so-called order parameters that distinguish symmetry-governed phases of matter can have topological structure. Symmetry constitutes a fundamental concept in physics.

Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ...