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Aalto Team Couples a Helium-3 Time Crystal to a Mechanical Oscillator, the First Link Between a Time Crystal and an External Device
Researchers at Aalto University demonstrated they can connect a continuous time crystal to a mechanical oscillator without destroying it, turning the exotic quantum state into an optomechanics-like platform that ran for up to 108 cycles.
Cal Poly Physicists Propose Flux-Switching Floquet Engineering, a Path to Stable Exotic Quantum Matter Without Static Analogs
Powell and Buchalter show in Physical Review B that periodically switched magnetic fluxes through a Harper-Hofstadter lattice can produce topological phases that no equilibrium material can host.
Wurzburg team confirms 40-year-old Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth law in two dimensions using exciton-polariton condensates
Physicists at the University of Wurzburg used a gallium arsenide quantum film cooled to -269.15 C to measure KPZ scaling exponents in 2D, four years after the 1D version was confirmed.
Oxford Team Achieves First-Ever Quadsqueezing on a Single Trapped Ion, Generating the Fourth-Order Effect Over 100 Times Faster Than Expected
A University of Oxford group has experimentally demonstrated quadsqueezing, a fourth-order quantum interaction long thought too weak to observe, by harnessing non-commutativity between two laser-driven forces on a single trapped ion.
Tokyo Researchers Diffract a Positronium Beam Through Graphene, Confirming the Antimatter Atom Behaves as a Single Quantum Wave
A Tokyo University of Science team has observed first-order matter-wave diffraction of positronium passing through a few-layer graphene grating, the first direct evidence that the short-lived electron-positron atom behaves as one coherent quantum object and a step toward gravity tests on antimatter.
Two Simultaneous Papers Report Field Re-Entrant Superconductivity in Europium-Doped Nickelates, Defying the Pauli Limit
Independent teams publishing in Nature and Nature Communications show that doping infinite-layer nickelates with europium revives superconductivity at magnetic fields that should destroy it.
GSI Experiment Finds First Evidence of an Eta-Prime Mesic Nucleus, Probing the Origin of Mass
An international collaboration at GSI/FAIR in Germany reports the first experimental evidence that an eta-prime meson can be bound inside a carbon-11 nucleus, with data hinting that the meson loses mass in nuclear matter.
Aalto University Algorithm Solves 268-Million-Site Quasicrystal Simulation That Would Defeat Any Classical Supercomputer
A quantum-inspired tensor network method achieves exponential speedup on topological quasicrystals, opening a feedback loop between quantum materials and quantum computer design.
Muon g-2 Collaboration Wins 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for 66-Year Quest to Weigh a Wobble
The $3 million prize recognizes three generations of experiments at CERN, Brookhaven, and Fermilab that measured the muon's magnetic moment to 127 parts per billion, sharpening a long-standing test of the Standard Model.
Converging Experiments Rule Out the Sterile Neutrino as JUNO's First Data Hint at New Physics Beyond the Standard Model
MicroBooNE and KATRIN independently close the door on the light sterile neutrino, while China's JUNO detector surpasses 50 years of precision in just 59 days.
SuperCDMS Dark Matter Detector Reaches Near-Absolute-Zero Operating Temperature at SNOLAB, Preparing for First Science Run
The SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB has cooled its 24 detectors to near absolute zero, preparing to probe an unexplored low-mass dark matter range within the year.
Fermilab's Electronically Tunable Quantum Sensor Scans for Dark Photons 20 Times Faster Than Mechanical Methods
A SQUID-based detector that tunes itself electronically rather than mechanically achieved a 20-fold speedup in scanning for dark photon dark matter, covering a 22 MHz frequency range in three days.