Physicists have long been fascinated with dark matter. Scientists discovered that observable matter, stars, galaxies, nebulae ...

Illustration of cesium atoms entering an ordered state after being chilled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute ...

Strong interactions between particles in physical systems can result in various highly correlated ground states. These states and the strong correlations underpinning them have been extensively ...

An international team of physicists has successfully created an exotic new phase of quantum matter known as a "fractional ...

The difference between bosons and fermions is just spin. But in physics, this is a fundamental difference. Bosuns and bosoms are of course completely different again The word boson causes no end of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There are only two types of fundamental particle known in the entire ...

Composite fermions are exotic quasi-particles found in interacting 2-D fermion systems at relatively large perpendicular magnetic fields. These quasi-particles, which are composed of an electron and ...

Physicists in the Netherlands say that they have found the first evidence for the existence of “Majorana fermions” – particles that are their own antiparticles. The researchers claim to have spotted ...

The fermionizer: physicists have used this experimental set-up to make bosonic atoms behave like fermions. (Courtesy: Nate Follmer/Penn State) Physicists in the US have shown that normally gregarious ...

The level of sociability for atoms and subatomic particles depends on how much spin they have, which is a measure of how fast they spin around themselves. Atoms and subatomic particles with integer ...