News tagged with magnetic states

Physicists investigate electron fractionalization into not two, but three components

One of the many intriguing puzzles in physics is the strange behavior of the electron as it fractionalizes into two separate quasiparticles. These quasiparticles, called spinons and chargons (or holons), carry the electron’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (45) | comments 11 | with audio podcast feature

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (33) | comments 3

Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Bizarre matter could find use in quantum computers: Odd electron mix has fault-tolerant quantum registry

There are enticing new findings this week in the worldwide search for materials that support fault-tolerant quantum computing. New results from Rice University and Princeton University indicate that a bizarre ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The world's smallest magnetic data storage unit

Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Quantum robins lead the way

(PhysOrg.com) -- Did you know that the humble robin uses quantum physics?

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Artificial magnetic fields for light could illuminate correlated quantum systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, the field of many-body physics involves the interactions and collective behavior of large numbers of particles. Scientists have made significant progress in exploring this field, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists cross hurdle in quantum manipulation of matter

Finding ways to control matter at the level of single atoms and electrons fascinates many scientists and engineers because the ability to manipulate single charges and single magnetic moments (spins) may help ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Vegetative state patients may soon be able to communicate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Cambridge University in the UK have been able to communicate with brain-injured patients in "locked states" commonly referred to as persistent vegetative states (PVS). They ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Magnetic vortex memory shows memory potential of nanodots

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using magnetic nanodots in the vortex state, researchers have designed a new kind of non-volatile memory that could offer increased speed and density for next-generation non-volatile random ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers determined huge pressures that melt diamond on planet Neptune

(PhysOrg.com) -- The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Researchers find magnetic link to high-temperature superconductivity

Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint SLAC-Stanford institute, have seen strong indications of a relationship between the superconductive and magnetic properties ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers engineer molecular magnets to act as long-lived qubits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some physicists today are investigating the possibility of using molecular magnets as information storage units in future quantum computers. Molecular magnets are molecules whose magnetic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists find way to control individual bits in quantum computers

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate a single "bit" in a quantum processor without ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Copper-based materials show strange spin states

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as water, ice, and steam are all phases of the same material that are influenced by temperature and pressure, new research shows how transitions of state work in very simple lattices ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast