When temperature or pressure is applied to a material, its state changes from liquid to solid or remains solid but exhibits structural changes. This change is called a phase transition or change.
Soft Matter
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Non-Hermitian systems have numerous alluring optical properties at exceptional points (EPs) and have attracted extensive attention because of their great prospects in applications such as optical sensing, integrated optics, ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 21, 2023
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The Chern number, an invariant quantity that characterizes topological phases in physical systems, was recently tuned in a controlled fashion by researchers from Tokyo Tech. They achieved this feat in an electronic-nuclear ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 7, 2023
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Technological advancements like autonomous driving and computer vision are driving a surge in demand for computational power. Optical computing, with its high throughput, energy efficiency, and low latency, has garnered considerable ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 31, 2023
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An international research group led by Dr. Takayuki Ishii from HPSTAR and Okayama University, Institute for Planetary Materials, has precisely determined the temperature dependence of the high-pressure phase transition pressure ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2023
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A proton-driven approach that enables multiple ferroelectric phase transitions sets the stage for ultralow power, high-capacity computer chips.
Nanophysics
Jul 17, 2023
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Phase change memory is a type of nonvolatile memory that harnesses a phase change material's (PCM) ability to shift from an amorphous state, i.e., where atoms are disorganized, to a crystalline state, i.e., where atoms are ...
Materials Science
Jul 10, 2023
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The exploitation of polarization or charge separation in ferroelectric materials has led to remarkable advances in various fields, such as the development of new ultrasound diagnostic devices. Prominently, these ferroelectric ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 26, 2023
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AI, machine learning, and ChatGPT may be relatively new buzzwords in the public domain, but developing a computer that functions like the human brain and nervous system—both hardware and software combined—has been a decades-long ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 5, 2023
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Physicists have discovered "stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism" that may account for the strange electronic behavior of some layered helical magnets.
Condensed Matter
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