For more than 100 years, scientists have debated what the underlying molecular structure of water is, and the common view has been that H2O molecules are either "water-like" or "ice-like." Now through ...

When a singer belts out a tune while a guitar player strums along, sound waves travel through the air, driving collective ...

That low-frequency fuzz that can bedevil cellphone calls has to do with how electrons move through and interact in materials at the smallest scale. The electronic flicker noise is often caused by ...

A condition long considered to be unfavorable to electrical conduction in semiconductor materials may actually be beneficial in 2D semiconductors, according to new findings by UC Santa Barbara ...

Sound has negative mass, and all around you it's drifting up, up and away — albeit very slowly. A phonon — a particle-like unit of vibration that can describe sound at very small scales — has a very ...

Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet. Phonons are collective ...

The phonon, like the photon or electron, is a physical particle that travels like waves, representing mechanical vibration. Phonons transmit everyday sound and heat. Recent progress in phononics has ...

Artist's impression of an array of nanomechanical resonators designed to generate and trap phonons (Courtesy: Wentao Jiang) A superconducting qubit can be used to reliably detect the presence of ...

One of the two big news items these days from the realm of computing is quantum computers (the other is artificial intelligence). Recently, IBM published a paper in which it claimed to have ...