Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Vincenzo Savona, head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems. 2025 EPFL/Murielle Gerber- CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...

Google Quantum AI’s new research revives a 1960s concept of “quantum money,” potentially eliminating the need for blockchain ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Spin glasses are physical systems in which the small magnetic moments of particles (i.e., spins) interact with each other in ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

Michel Devoret, a winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, reflects on his path from high school engineering projects to his philosophy on research and mentorship.

A team of scientists has used a quantum processor to create an exotic new state of matter, capturing the strange motion of quantum particles in real time.

The team used intense X-rays to confirm a key theoretical concept that explains a material's conductivity crash.

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.