Imitation dark matter axions have arrived. They could reveal the real thing
A quasiparticle in a manganese-based material acts a lot like the elusive axion
Researchers Suyang Xu (left), Jianxiang Qiu (right) and colleagues have created axion quasiparticles, which behave similarly to hypothetical axion particles that could be the explanation for dark matter.
Suyang Xu