Critical awakening: physicists have found evidence of a continuous phase transition in brain activity. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Phonlamai-Photo) Further evidence that ...

In a paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers offer a new theory that predicts defect density across a variety of phase transitions. The research ...

Phase transitions are ubiquitous in physics, ranging from thermal phenomena such as the boiling of water to magnetic transitions in solids and from cosmological phase transitions in the early Universe ...

Phase engineering of a wave function influences and determines the tendency and even results of physical processes, especially for efficient nonlinear optical frequency conversion. High conversion ...