This press release is also available in German. There are two fundamentally distinct families of particles in nature: bosons and fermions. Being a boson or a fermion has profound consequences on the ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fundamental particles fall within two camps—fermions or bosons—but a new study suggests that hypothetical ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Take a lattice — ...

HOUSTON For the first time, a mixed gas of the two fundamental types of atoms has been cooled to a state of simultaneous quantum degeneracy-a state of matter in which atoms behave like ...

All atoms are either fermions or bosons depending on whether they possess half-integer or integer spin, and the difference between the two becomes clear when they are cooled to near absolute zero.

Physicists have discovered an exotic new state of matter that takes the form of a highly ordered crystal of subatomic particles. The new state of matter, called a "bosonic correlated insulator," could ...

If I roll a pair of dice and you get to bet on one number, what do you choose? The smart choice is 7 because there are more ways for 2 dice to come up 7 than any other number. Well, it turns out that ...

The future of supersymmetry is in serious doubt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Supersymmetry is the idea that the fundamental ...

Fundamental particles fall within two camps—fermions or bosons—but a new study suggests that hypothetical paraparticles could exist in a kind of inbetween. Although technically quasiparticles, this ...

Take a lattice -- a flat section of a grid of uniform cells, like a window screen or a honeycomb -- and lay another, similar lattice above it. But instead of trying to line up the edges or the cells ...