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 ...

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 ...

Crystals all the way down: An artistic rendering of a time crystal. (Courtesy: Google Quantum AI) Crystalline solids such as diamond have a hallmark property: their structure is periodic in space. For ...