This news release is available in German. Imperfections in the regular atomic arrangements in crystals determine many of the properties of a material, and their diffusion is behind many ...

A self-organisation is an universal phenomenon in nature and, in particular, is highly important in materials systems. Our goal was to develop a new theory that provides a computationally effective ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for creating and probing an entirely new state of matter--neither solid, liquid nor precisely gas--that in only a few years has paved the way ...

The atoms that make up metallic glasses lack the orderly lattice structure present in most other crystalline solids. Researchers have now shown that within randomly packed clusters of atoms, a fractal ...

A team of researchers from Osaka University, the Institute for High Pressure Physics and the Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia), and TU Dresden (Germany), ...

Since the 1960s, astronomers have spotted numerous sources of intense optical and microwave light at specific frequencies. These sources first puzzled astronomers but it soon became clear that the ...

Using super-chilled atoms, physicists have for the first time observed a weird phenomenon called quantum magnetism, which describes the behavior of single atoms as they act like tiny bar magnets.

Trapping unruly atoms within laser lattices brings order to their motion, researchers say. A team of Swedish scientists used an array of 20 lasers to trap a cloud of randomly moving super-cooled atoms ...