Swinburne researchers have discovered unexpected and entirely new quantum behaviors that only occur in one-dimensional systems ... question in quantum physics: what happens when a single "impurity ...

Magnetic switch traps quantum information carriers in one dimension. (Image credit: Brad Baxley, Part to Whole . For use reporting on this study, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02120-1) ...

Time is the strange dimension ... there is nothing. Then physics says, 'Let there be light!,' and there actually is light—at one precise moment in time and point in space," says Prof.