Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts ...

Phase transitions, shifts between different states of matter, are widely explored physical phenomena. So far, these transitions have primarily been studied in three-dimensional (3D) and ...

After decades of looking, researchers have seen a string of atoms go through a 1D phase change so elusive that ... understand just the basic states that matter can be in,” says Alexander ...

Phase transitions and critical phenomena ... and the unusual effects that occur on the boundary between them. A change in the state of matter, such as from a solid to a liquid, is a classic ...

Phase change materials are proving to be a useful tool to store excess energy and recover it later – storing energy not as electricity, but as heat. Let’s take a look at how the technology ...

Developed by Stanford Ovshinsky, reknowned for his inventions in memories and solar panels, "phase change RAM" (PRAM, PCRAM) and "chalcogenide RAM" (C-RAM) are other names for phase change memory ...