Tag: Phase Transitions
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Measuring Quantum Temperatures: A New Thermometer for Quantumness and the Mystery of Quasicrystal Formation
Unlocking the Quantum Thermometer: A New Tool for Quantumness In a bold step for quantum science, researchers have developed a thermometer that doesn’t measure temperature in the classical sense but instead gauges the “quantumness” of a system. This innovative device aims to quantify how strongly a physical system behaves according to quantum rules, offering a…
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The Strange Premelting State: When Water Is Both Solid and Liquid in Tiny Spaces
The Curious Case of Water in Narrow Spaces Water is often treated as the dull workhorse of the natural world. Yet at the smallest scales, it behaves in astonishing ways. A new study from researchers in Japan uncovers a phenomenon where water molecules can act like a solid and a liquid at the same time…
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AI Tensor Networks Solve Century-Old Physics Puzzle with THOR AI
New Computational Framework Tackles a Century-Old Challenge Researchers from The University of New Mexico (UNM) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have unveiled a pioneering computational framework that dramatically improves how scientists compute the configurational integral—a central and notoriously difficult part of statistical physics. The team’s system, called THOR (Tensors for High-dimensional Object Representation) AI,…