Physicists have long been fascinated by the concept of symmetry breaking, a fundamental principle in physical sciences that ...

Physicists at Washington University have forged ahead in the field of quantum mechanics by creating a new phase of matter ...

One way of creating a time crystal is to knock some of the carbon atoms out of the crystal lattice of diamond, creating what ...

Time crystals are like a clock that never needs winding or batteries. “In theory, it should be able to go on forever,” Zu said. In practice, time crystals are fragile and sensitive to the environment.

Physicists have just created the first-ever time quasicrystal, a new phase of matter that appears to defy concepts of time ...