More Brookhaven National Laboratory In the new study, the researchers have shown that the "forbidden" phase transition can be achieved only at a very narrow range of temperatures. And thus ...

"Prior to this paper, we had written a paper that observed a similar phase transition in entanglement, in which we had observed phases where measurements of a quantum system preserved or destroyed ...

A critical phenomena analysis then concluded that a phase transition, well studied in the physics of magnetic materials, occurred at a critical gene length of 1,500 nucleotides. This marked ...

But no past experiment had achieved this phase transition. One reason for the difficulty is that systems like quantum computers and simulators typically only work well when they are very cold.

Scientists at Northwestern University have identified components of neurons that match up to materials undergoing a phase shift – a transition from one state of matter, like a liquid ...