"In quantum physics, the entire system is described by a single large many-particle quantum state," says Prof. Joachim Burgdörfer (TU Wien). "How a random distribution and thus a temperature should ...

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for work on Earth’s climate and the theory of chaos and disordered systems. The first half of the prize was given ...

In the last few years, we witnessed countless wildfires, and a big increase in the number of tornados, droughts, and floods. To minimize loss of life, sometimes we wish that we could find a way to ...

Drawing on data from the physics-based FIRETEC model, a nonlinear dynamical approach examines time series for a variety of ...

College Park, MD ---The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announces the winners of the 2008 Dannie Heineman Prizes for Astrophysics and for Mathematical Physics. The mathematical physics prize goes ...

Researchers are using chaos theory to 3D-print stunning pieces of jewelry. As Einstein himself said, "The greatest scientists are always artists as well." Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at ...