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Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
...the wild,” said Strogatz. When you include a second variable, like amplitude variations, “that opens up a new zoo of phenomena.” Roukes, who is a professor of physics, applied physics...
In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds
...thinking about physics. These “nonlocal” games were conceived in the 1960s by the physicist John Stewart Bell as a way to understand the bizarre quantum phenomenon called entanglement. While quantum...
Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder
...Lukin said they observed. The system seems to be imbued with some special physics that allows it to retrace its path, Papić said. “It leaves bread crumbs and goes back...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
...No human, or team of humans, could possibly keep up with the avalanche of information produced by many of today’s physics and astronomy experiments. Some of them record terabytes of...
The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games
A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity. One of the biggest and most basic questions in physics involves the number of ways to...
The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson
...physics, and the linchpin that holds that decades-old set of equations together. But no other new particles have materialized at the LHC, leaving open many mysteries about the universe that...
A World Without Clouds
...the simulated climate “goes over a cliff,” said Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A leading authority on atmospheric physics, Emanuel called the new findings...
Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch
...Thomas Galley of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and Markus Müller of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna have proposed a new...
An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita
...you wanted to study? I wanted to be a physicist, no question. But I wasn’t sure which area. I finished all the graduate courses in physics by the time I...