For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here’s what that means, and why it's such ...

The Significance of Light-Based Supersolids This is the first time a supersolid has been created using light, which could lead to new ways of manipulating photonic materials and quantum systems.

Sanvitto highlighted the complexity of the task, stating that a supersolid made from light had never been created or experimentally validated before. Supersolid out of laser beams Alberto Bramati ...

An unusual state of matter, first theorized almost 50 years ago, has been created in experiments for the first time. Say hello to the supersolid, a state where atoms simultaneously exhibit a ...

"We can imagine the supersolid as a fluid composed of coherent quantum droplets periodically arranged in space," says atomic and optical physicist Iacopo Carusotto from the University of Trento in ...

The order of the supersolid would therefore be defined by the nodes and antinodes of this wavefunction. In 2004, Moses Chan of the Pennsylvania State University in the US and his PhD student Eun-Seong ...

A supersolid isn’t what it may sound like. Essentially, its atoms are arranged in a rigid crystalline structure, like a regular solid – but they can also flow with zero viscosity, like a ...

Each team created their supersolid differently, but both groups started by turning atoms into a “Bose-Einstein condensate”, a hyper cold gas made from atoms with even numbers of electrons.

A new “supersolid” phase of matter has been created by physicists in the US by cooling helium-4 to ultracold temperatures. Eun-Seong Kim and Moses Chan of Pennsylvania State University say their ...

In the 15 January 2004 issue of the journal Nature, two physicists from Penn State University will announce their discovery of a new phase of matter, a "supersolid" form of helium-4 with the ...

The roots of the supersolid controversy go back to 1969, when Russian physicists predicted a state of solid matter in which gaps, or vacancies, in a crystal structure could move together as a ...

The researchers made the supersolid by cooling solid helium to less than one tenth of a degree above absolute zero, which is the coldest that anything can possibly get (- 273° Celsius).