Physicists Capture First-Ever Image of an Electron Crystal
Electrons are typically seen flitting around their atoms, but a team of physicists has now imaged the particles in a very different state: nestled together in a quantum phase called…
Physicists Captured Images of Heat’s ‘Second Sound.’ What?
Physicists at MIT have spotted the second sound of a superfluid. Besides being pleasantly alliterative, the phenomenon may explain how heat moves through certain rare materials on Earth and deep…