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 ...

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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

Probable Discovery Of A New, Supersolid, Phase Of Matter Date: September 3, 2004 Source: Penn State Summary: Two physicists from Penn State University will announce new experimental evidence for ...