Two RIKEN physicists have established new theoretical limits for experimentally measurable quantities by viewing solids through a lens of quantum geometry. Their results shed light both on the physics ...

The usual approach to studying a solid in physics is to consider all the interactions acting between its atoms or molecules and then use the laws of quantum mechanics to determine the solid’s ...

Second, the shape must be completely solid: that is, it must have a well-defined inside and outside that is separated by the shape itself. Third, any point on a line that connects two points in a ...

Figure 1: Quantum objects such as electrons, protons and neutrons are notoriously difficult to pin down due to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Now, two RIKEN researchers have derived analogous ...