Researchers have shown that ultracold atoms can be driven into a strange new quantum state called a fractional Fermi sea, where particles organize themselves in unexpected ways. The discovery points ...

Solitonic waves—waves that keep their shape and direction of motion for a long time—have intrigued physicists for almost two centuries. In real-world circumstances, these waves eventually die out due ...

When a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, physicists have long assumed its fate is sealed: it collapses under its gravity ...

Oxford physicists have created an unconventional class of quantum superpositions from highly nonclassical states.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oxford physicists created exotic quantum superpositions in a trapped ion, opening new paths for quantum computing and sensing.

Quantum mechanics, unlike classical physics, allows objects to exist in more than one state at the same time. This idea is often illustrated by Schrödinger's cat, imagined as being both alive and dead ...

Quantum mechanics is full of states that seem to defy ordinary sense, but one of its strangest ideas has usually been built from fairly familiar pieces. At the University of Oxford, physicists have ...