Particles engineered to spontaneously self-assemble like atoms forming molecules could give rise to new high-tech materials, leading to better optical displays and faster computer chips, researchers ...

According to our current understanding of the universe, quarks are fundamental, point-like particles: basic building blocks ...

Scientists have directly observed muonic molecules in resonance states for the first time, using a high-resolution X-ray ...

Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom.

This calculated diffraction image shows how forked diffraction gratings shape the atoms' wave function into a vortex. (Courtesy: Science/AAAS) A wave-like property previously only seen in beams of ...

For the first time, physicists have entangled two atoms while they were in motion and used the result to run one of quantum ...

The quasiparticle concept allows physicists to describe complex, many-body interactions in terms of the behaviour of a single particle-like entity. Usually these particles turn up in condensed-matter ...