New quantum category: Physicists have revealed a one-dimensional system that could host anyons, particles that defy the boson–fermion classification. Tunable particle behavior: These anyons may be ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

Scientists led by Hanns-Christoph Nägerl have observed anyons -- quasiparticles that differ from the familiar fermions and bosons -- in a one-dimensional quantum system for the first time. The results ...

Researchers from the University of Innsbruck, the Collège de France, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles have developed a simple yet powerful method to reveal anyons—exotic quantum particles that ...

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the ...

“We proved the existence of a new class of quantum materials that are both metallic and one-dimensional magnets, with strong coupling between the magnetic moments and their metallic host,” said UBC ...

Quantum photonics in one-dimensional waveguides explores the interaction of individual photons with quantum emitters confined to linear dielectric or superconducting structures. The extreme spatial ...

A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (UBC Blusson QMI) has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in the metallic compound ...