Now, a joint collaboration between the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems (Politecnico de Torino), the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Innsbruck), the University of Innsbruck, the Institute of Theoretical Physics (Jagiellonian University), the Mark Kac Center for Complex Systems Research (Jagiellonian University), and ICFO and ICREA Prof. Dr. Maciej Lewenstein, has provided an updated review, published in Reports on Progress in Physics. In this work, they have collected some of the most recent and exciting results on the investigation of non-standard Bose-Hubbard models, focusing on their application for atomic quantum simulators.

A first-ever discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a two-magnon bound state has been achieved by a collaborative research team from Southern University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Renmin University of China, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization.

Using the Multi-frequency High Field Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer at the Steady-State High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a research team from Southern University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Renmin University of China, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization observed the first-ever Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of a two-magnon bound state in a magnetic material.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Rice University have investigated the intricacies of particle exchange statistics and shown that a third category — paraparticles — can exist under specific physical conditions, obeying exotic "parastatistics" markedly different from those of fermions and bosons. Using a second quantization framework, they mathematically demonstrated that paraparticles emerge as quasiparticle excitations in quantum spin models, challenging long-standing assumptions in condensed matter and particle physics. Their discovery was published last week in Nature.

In a new study, physicists at Brown University have now observed a novel class of quantum particles called fractional excitons, which behave in unexpected ways and could significantly expand scientists’ understanding of the quantum realm.

In quantum technology applications such as quantum computing, light plays a central role in encoding and transmitting information. NTU researchers have recently made breakthroughs in manipulating light that could potentially usher in the era of quantum computing.

Since the CMS and ATLAS experiments announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, they have been measuring its mass and interaction with other particles with ever-increasing precision. Now, researchers are setting their sights on the Higgs boson’s interaction with itself, which could provide physicists with clues to the stability of the Universe. To do this, physicists search for a much rarer phenomenon than the production of one Higgs boson: the production of Higgs boson pairs, known as di-Higgs. In a new study, using data from high-energy proton–proton collisions in Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS experiment has released its latest search for di-Higgs production and provided constraints on their production rate.

Led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) with Sandia National Laboratories as the lead partner, QSA brings together an ecosystem of 15 institutions in North America. With over 60 principal investigators, 130 staff, 91 postdocs, and 139 students, QSA advances national particle physics research by co-designing across institutions.

Together with their collaborators, Busnaina and Dr. Christopher Wilson, a faculty member at IQC and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have realized quantum analog simulation of a new type of system. This version of their simulation, known as the bosonic Kitaev model, is made using a class of subatomic particles called bosons which includes photons (particles of light) and the Higgs Boson, which are linked together in a chain.

The propagation of information can speed up over time in systems of certain quantum particles, a theoretical analysis by RIKEN physicists has revealed.