Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally ...

Fractals are self-repeating patterns that occur on different length scales and can be seen in nature in a variety of settings ... Hofstadter’s spectrum that are of interest to fundamental physics ...

Quantifying and understanding such patterns may help us to design better ... This is a win–win situation, a vivid example of the changing nature of physics in the twenty-first century, which ...

1. Fractals and Self-Similarity Across Scales Concept: Fractals are patterns that repeat at different scales, like a fern leaf. Nature is full of patterns where if you zoom in and out, you see the ...

Researchers observed a long-predicted fractal energy pattern in twisted carbon materials, confirming quantum theories.

A team of international scientists co-led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a ...

The researchers recently published the answer to this question in the journal Nature Communications ... to decipher the molecular patterns -- not only through physics and mathematics, but also ...

In classical and quantum physics, the harmonic oscillator is a ... in which identical oscillators with identical coupling patterns self-organize into subpopulations with different synchronous ...