A new study reveals that spontaneous emission, a key phenomenon in the interaction between light and atoms, manifests in a ...

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal ...

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in ...

Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results ...

First theorized in 2012, researchers are beginning to find new ways to implement this mind-bending technology.

Physicists have unveiled a new type of time crystal that is governed by quantum behavior that conflicts with classical models ...

Everything is born out of nothing,” said Ivan Smalyukh, a physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder. “All you do is shine a light, and this whole world of time crystals emerges.”. In a paper in ...

In their study, Zhao and Smalyukh created a space–time crystal in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal. In this phase the crystal’s rod-like molecules align parallel to each other and also flow like ...