Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible field, but from the hidden geometry of space itself. Instead of treating extra ...

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs mechanism explained only part of the story. A new wave of theoretical work now ...

The use of internal atomic states as an effective synthetic dimension is an idea introduced in 2011 1 that gained quite a popularity and maturity in the last years. This is one of the main motivation ...