The transition of a physical system from one phase to another is familiar from everyday life. Water, for example, can be a solid (ice), a liquid or a gas (steam), and a change in temperature causes ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

Physicists have identified a new superfluid phase in a class of quantum systems that, until recently, looked too unstable and ...

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Hamish Johnston argues the case for the ...