Jiggling superfluid An artist’s depiction of a superfluid wave propagating through a layered superconductor. (Courtesy: Sampson Wilcox and Emily Theobald) A collective mode of electrons predicted to ...

Superfluids such as liquid helium behave in ways that challenge conventional ideas about liquids, flowing without viscosity while still interacting with dissolved molecules. A newly developed optical ...

What just happened? A team of physicists at MIT has managed to do something long thought impossible: peer into the ultrafast, quantum-scale motion of superconducting electrons. Using a microscope ...

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ultra-thin graphene, researchers observed a superfluid—normally defined by its ...

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors using terahertz light. The advance lets scientists observe electronic behavior that remained hidden for ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and infrared captures a ...

Physicists have long wondered what happens when a superfluid is cooled even further, and now, experiments in bilayer graphene hint at an unexpected answer. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Physicists have ...

Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid. Quantum matter, however, can behave very differently. In the early 20th century, ...

Researchers may have glimpsed a supersolid, an enigmatic quantum version of a classical solid. Bilayer excitons spontaneously self-assemble into a solid phase. Credit: Cory Dean/Columbia University.

The code integrates the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) to simulate the dynamics of a superfluid made of spinless particles and immersed in an external background potential. A set of Quasi-Periodic ...