Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created grids of tiny clumps of atoms known as quantum dots and studied what happens when electrons dive into these archipelagos of atomic islands. ...
Nanophysics
Nov 17, 2022
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A new study at Monash University illustrates how substrates affect strong electronic interactions in two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks.
Nanophysics
Nov 9, 2022
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X-rays can be used like a superfast, atomic-resolution camera, and if researchers shoot a pair of X-ray pulses just moments apart, they get atomic-resolution snapshots of a system at two points in time. Comparing these snapshots ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 7, 2022
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A series of buzzing, bee-like "loop-currents" could explain a recently discovered, never-before-seen phenomenon in a type of quantum material. The findings from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder may one day ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2022
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Today, an international team of researchers led by Séamus Davis, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and University College Cork, has announced results that reveal the atomic mechanism behind high-temperature ...
General Physics
Sep 7, 2022
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Superconductors—wondrous materials whose resistance drop to zero below a critical temperature—show much promise to meet the growing energy demand of the global population. With potential applications in magnetic resonance ...
Superconductivity
Sep 1, 2022
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City College of New York physicist Pouyan Ghaemi and his research team are claiming significant progress in using quantum computers to study and predict how the state of a large number of interacting quantum particles evolves ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 27, 2022
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Room-temperature superconductors could transform everything from electrical grids to particle accelerators to computers, but researchers are still trying to understand how these materials function on the atomic level.
Superconductivity
Jun 14, 2022
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Most people are not aware of magnetic forces in their everyday lives, but continuously rely on them in electric motors, hard drives, and electric sensors. In the race to develop smaller electronic components, quantum mechanisms ...
Quantum Physics
May 31, 2022
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Scientists from the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University have shown how silicon nanoparticles can become trapped inside the vortices that form inside superfluid helium. This work opens up new possibilities ...
Nanophysics
May 4, 2022
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