In 2012, scientists at the world's largest atom smasher came across evidence of what they believe is the Higgs boson, a long-sought particle that gives other matter the property of mass. Researchers ...

More than 40 years ago, Andreev, Lifshitz and Chester suggested the possible existence of a peculiar solid phase of matter, the microscopic constituents of which can flow superfluidly without ...

When a one-dimensional gas of strongly interacting bosons expands, the velocity distribution of the bosons transforms into one that is identical to non-interacting fermions. Bosons and fermions, the ...

This press release is also available in German. There are two fundamentally distinct families of particles in nature: bosons and fermions. Being a boson or a fermion has profound consequences on the ...

The Mott insulator transition is a striking manifestation of quantum many-body effects. In condensed-matter systems, strong repulsive interactions between electrons lead to the insulating behaviour of ...

ARC Research Associate (Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at Tera Scale), University of Adelaide On July 4, 2012, two experiments (ATLAS and CMS) at CERN announced the discovery of a new boson ...

Using single-atom-resolved microscopy, ultracold quantum gases composed of two types of atoms reveal distinctly different spatial correlations — the bosons on the left exhibit bunching, while the ...

Experimentalists and theorists search for Higgs bosons escaping as dark matter. When a Higgs boson is created in the high-energy proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider, it is so unstable ...

The Higgs boson has existed since the earliest moments of our universe. Its directionless field permeates all of space and entices transient particles to slow down and burgeon with mass. Without the ...

Physicists are on the hunt for dark forces. These forces are not as ominous as they sound: “dark” simply refers to the fact that no one has observed them before. In this case, they would act between ...

A boson sampler that uses atoms rather than photons has been developed by researchers in the US. The team used its system to determine a complex quantum state more accurately than would be practicable ...

Last week, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle-smasher at CERN, in Europe, reported that they had detected a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson particle and a photon.