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In the laboratory of UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Stephen Wilson, researchers are investigating the physics behind unusual states of matter while designing materials that could support properties useful for future quantum technologies.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

Physicists use similar ideas to describe states of matter.

From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2026

If those seem like incompatible states of matter, you haven’t been keeping up.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

In many quantum simulators, scientists arrange atoms as close together as possible to explore exotic states of matter and build new quantum materials.

From Science Daily • May 2, 2024

Light reveals the forms, and, playing upon the different states of matter, the substance of leaves, the grain of stones, the fluidity of air in deep layers, gives them dissimilar colouring.

From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Mauclair, Camille