Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear ...

W hen matter and antimatter collide, they turn into pure energy. Energy can also spontaneously turn into matter and antimatter pairs. If this happens in a vacuum under a strong electric field, this is ...

In everyday life, all matter exists as either a gas, liquid, or solid. In quantum mechanics, however, it is possible for two distinct states to exist simultaneously. An ultracold quantum system, for ...

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In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon ...

Superfluid helium reveals a manageable analog to the Schwinger effect. It deepens understanding of vortices and quantum ...

New finding advances our understanding of complex topological quantum systems and could help in the development of next-generation memory and storage devices ...

P hysicists at MIT have achieved a major feat, capturing a bizarre quantum effect called second sound on film, where heat ...

Imagine watching the impossible happen: from an empty space, tiny whirlpools suddenly spin into existence, as if conjured ...

Physicists from Osaka Metropolitan University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology were, for the first ...

Usually, when something gets warmed up, heat tends to spread outward before eventually dissipating. But things are a little different in the world of superfluid quantum gas. For the first time, MIT ...