Zihao Wang

A particle thermometer accelerated through vacuum heats up, and the way it reaches equilibrium depends on the field type and dimensions. Intriguingly, it heats faster than it cools, mimicking the Mpemba effect. This asymmetry provides a fingerprint to identify the Unruh effect.

Two sheets of graphene, pressed together through an ultra-thin spacer thinner than a human hair, work like a pair of mutual ironing boards: each layer smoothes out the other's bumps. Under these ideal conditions, electrons become incredibly light, and quantum marvels—like the fractional quantum Hall

For decades astronomers puzzled over mysterious anti-correlations of light elements in globular clusters. New research based on high-resolution cosmological simulations shows: the chemical anomalies could have arisen long before the birth of the cluster's first stars—in giant gas clouds. This scenar