Imaginary numbers are a solution to a very real problem in a study published today in Scientific Reports. Two physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory offered a way to ...

Systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium are very common in nature. In recent years they have attracted constantly growing attention because of their relevance for fundamental physics as well as for ...

University of Illinois physicists have created a bootstrapping framework that classifies non-equilibrium mixed-state quantum phases of matter, fixing flaws in existing methods and opening new routes ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, a team from the Nägerl group, together with theory collaborator Alvise Bastianello from the CNRS and the Université Paris-Dauphine, demonstrates ...

Lex Kemper is an assistant professor of physics at NC State. He is interested in a new method of probing complicated and poorly understood materials, like superconductors, in order to find out what ...

Quantum critical points are characterized by scale-invariant correlations and therefore by long-range entanglement. As such, they present fascinating examples of quantum states of matter and their ...

An analysis of a popular model for active matter, like bacteria and buffalo herds, defines the conditions under which such systems can be described with the tools of equilibrium statistics. For a ...

When it comes to non-equilibrium physics, not all assumptions are created equal. At least, those are the latest findings from NC State physicist Lex Kemper and colleagues from NC State and Georgetown ...