For generations of Indian students preparing for the JEE and NEET examinations, the journey towards success has often begun with a familiar name on a book cover: Concepts of Physics.Long before online ...

The anomalous Hall effect occurs when electrons moving through a magnetic material exhibit behavior beyond the predictions of the conventional Hall effect. Standard Drude theory predicts that ...

Physics is still full of big questions that scientists have not completely answered. From the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy to the challenge of unifying relativity with quantum mechanics, ...

Adiabatic quantum computing An example problem represented by an energy landscape. Each point on the landscape represents a candidate solution. The deepest valley represents the actual solution with ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once. If that sounds complicated, it is: Physicists often ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as ...

“How quantum mechanics and gravity fit together is one of the most important outstanding problems in physics,” Kathryn Zurek, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ...