The grid-pattern “square waves” that appear in viral social media posts each summer are real — they’re called cross seas, and they’re caused by two wave systems meeting at nearly right angles. The ...

A unique propagation phenomenon of acoustic waves has been discovered, paving the way for developing advanced communication technologies using acoustic devices. The research, published in Physical ...

A research team led by Dominik Schneble, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has uncovered a novel regime, or set of conditions within a system, for cooperative radiative ...

Spin waves are collective oscillations of electron spin orientations in magnetic materials. The quanta of these excitations, known as magnons, propagate through a magnetic medium with characteristic ...

The wave nature of quantum particles underpins interference phenomena, which can influence chemical reactions by producing oscillatory patterns in product states or angular distributions. While such ...