A new technique reveals high-speed trajectories of oscillating vortices and shows that they are 10,000 times lighter than expected.

When a strong and quenched disorder is present, the mobility of a particle in a two-dimensional channel is enhanced as the cross-section of the channel is diminished.

Interface effects explain the sign of the spin Seebeck effect in antiferromagnets across a spin-flop transition.

The pressures at which some elements start superconducting are so high that making detailed measurements of the transition has been impossible—until now.

The exotic quantum Griffiths singularity associated with the superconductor-metal transition driven by magnetic field has been observed in nickelate thin films.

Pebbles that are slightly curved—rather than completely flat—exert the highest impact forces when dropped onto a watery surface.

Using a detailed simulation, researchers reveal how climate change will affect the regional dynamics of the conveyor-belt-like circulation of water through the Atlantic Ocean.

Upcoming high-sensitivity observations of the cosmic microwave background will be able to place limits on the inflaton coupling in a given model of cosmic inflation. (Image credit: Lina Drewes)

A new method takes advantage of the relation between observables in four-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories and the Trace-Widom distribution to perform an expansion in the coupling constant that includes nonperturbative corrections.

A uniform superfluid response in superconducting quasi-2D Pd-intercalated ErTe${}_3$ was observed using scanning SQUID susceptometry, which suggests quantum phase fluctuations that may suppress $T_c$.

Single or multiple plasmon-assisted tunneling processes can be observed by measuring the energy spectrum of a double quantum dot, demonstrating a new platform for studying electronic quantum optics and for developing plasmonic cavity quantum electrodynamics.

Experiments on a bed of plastic beads reveal a temperature-dependent stiffening over time, which appears to be related to molecular-scale deformations.

Electron neutrinos produced by proton–proton collisions at the LHC have been experimentally observed.

A theoretical analysis suggests that higher derivative gravity theories display signs of UV completeness.

An optical lattice clock with a 19-digit frequency accuracy results from the precise evaluation of the dynamic component of the clock transition’s blackbody radiation shift.

An irreversible algorithm utilizing collective particle swaps outperforms known Monte Carlo methods for configuration space sampling during the glassy slowing of dynamics in disordered systems.

Dark matter that interacts with itself could extract significant momentum from a binary supermassive black hole system, causing the black holes to merge.

A controlled bond expansion approach to simulate quantum dynamics resolves the numerical difficulty of the standard time-dependent variational principle method for matrix product states, where dominant projection errors spoil the numerical accuracy.

Identification of a continuous phase transition between the plaquette valence-bond solid phase and the antiferromagnetic phase accompanied by an emergent O(4) symmetry strongly suggests a deconfined quantum critical point in the ground state phase diagram of the extended Shastry-Sutherland model.

A levitating microparticle is observed to recoil when a nucleus embedded in the particle decays—opening the door to future searches of invisible decay products.

The flapping instability of the film squeezed between underwater colliding bubbles is the primary mechanism for submicron droplet formation.

The large exchange energy observed when flipping a spin in the ferromagnetic phase of MoS${}_2$, as determined from the optical emission spectrum, suggests very stable ferromagnetic ordering.

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.

Researchers have made the most precise measurement to date of the excited nuclear state of thorium-229, a candidate isotope for an ultraprecise nuclear clock.

The exact numerical solution of the quantum Heisenberg spin glass throughout the ordered phase and down to zero temperature clears a technical limitation in the investigation of a system of fundamental relevance.