Physicists succeeded in precisely engineering key ingredients to simulate a specific lattice gauge theory using ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Fundamental interactions between particles are ...

A quantum computer that can simulate interactions between fundamental particles has been unveiled by physicists in Austria. Four trapped ions were used to model the physics that describes the creation ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

A major obstacle in calculating the muon’s behavior is the strong force, the most powerful of the four fundamental forces, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak force. It binds quarks ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most ...

Scientists have measured the largest effect of the "weak interaction" -- one of the four fundamental forces of nature -- ever observed in an atom. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

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