"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fundamental particles fall within two camps—fermions or bosons—but a new study suggests that hypothetical ...

Physicists have discovered an exotic new state of matter that takes the form of a highly ordered crystal of subatomic particles. The new state of matter, called a "bosonic correlated insulator," could ...

Are quantum particles polygamous? New experiments suggest some of them abandon long-standing partnerships when ...

Scientists have observed a unique particle that moves easily one way, yet resists at 90 degrees. These semi-Dirac fermions were observed using their energy signature in a topological metal. Particles ...

This press release is also available in German. There are two fundamentally distinct families of particles in nature: bosons and fermions. Being a boson or a fermion has profound consequences on the ...

A new phenomenon in an unconventional metal could provide a new way of making highly sensitive detectors for mid-infrared wavelengths. The phenomenon is closely related to Weyl fermions, which are ...

When it comes to entirely new, faster, more powerful computers, Majorana fermions may be the answer. These hypothetical particles can do a better job than conventional quantum bits (qubits) of light ...

The building-blocks of matter — protons, neutrons and electrons — are examples of particles called fermions. Eight decades ago, the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana predicted the existence of ...