For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here’s what that means, and why it's such ...

Researchers have created a supersolid using light, demonstrating a new quantum phase of matter with both solid and superfluid properties. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0)© The Brighter Side of News ...

"We can imagine the supersolid as a fluid composed of coherent quantum droplets periodically arranged in space," says atomic and optical physicist Iacopo Carusotto from the University of Trento in ...

An unusual state of matter, first theorized almost 50 years ago, has been created in experiments for the first time. Say hello to the supersolid, a state where atoms simultaneously exhibit a ...

The order of the supersolid would therefore be defined by the nodes and antinodes of this wavefunction. In 2004, Moses Chan of the Pennsylvania State University in the US and his PhD student Eun-Seong ...

A supersolid isn’t what it may sound like. Essentially, its atoms are arranged in a rigid crystalline structure, like a regular solid – but they can also flow with zero viscosity, like a ...

Each team created their supersolid differently, but both groups started by turning atoms into a “Bose-Einstein condensate”, a hyper cold gas made from atoms with even numbers of electrons.

A new “supersolid” phase of matter has been created by physicists in the US by cooling helium-4 to ultracold temperatures. Eun-Seong Kim and Moses Chan of Pennsylvania State University say their ...

The roots of the supersolid controversy go back to 1969, when Russian physicists predicted a state of solid matter in which gaps, or vacancies, in a crystal structure could move together as a ...

In the 15 January 2004 issue of the journal Nature, two physicists from Penn State University will announce their discovery of a new phase of matter, a "supersolid" form of helium-4 with the ...

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Probable Discovery Of A New, Supersolid, Phase Of Matter Date: September 3, 2004 Source: Penn State Summary: Two physicists from Penn State University will announce new experimental evidence for ...