At first, the photons settle into a state with zero momentum, but as this state 'fills up', pairs of photons begin to spill ...

Scientists have transformed light into a supersolid, a breakthrough merging solid and liquid properties in quantum physics.

New research reveals light can behave as a supersolid, paving the way for advancements in quantum computing and optical ...

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and solids, so materials scientists say it is viscoelastic – a combination of ...

Scientists have transformed light into a supersolid for the first time, unlocking new possibilities in quantum physics, ...

A team of Italian scientists has successfully made light behave like a supersolid for the first time. Published in Nature ...

You probably learned in school that there are three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Think ice cube, a puddle of water and fog. Maybe you also learned about a fourth state, known as plasma ...

With properties of a superfluid but with a crystalline structure, supersolids have previously only been observed in ultracold ...

Light was turned into a quasiparticle that simultaneously behaved like a crystal and wave.

This state of matter was proposed in the 1960s, but only in the last decade did this move from a theoretical possibility to a ...