News tagged with rotation symmetry

Researchers discover why atoms in solids show a preference for certain structures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nature likes some symmetries, but dislikes others. Ordered solids often display a so-called 6-fold rotation symmetry. To achieve this kind of symmetry, the atoms in a plane surround themselves ...

Physics / General Physics

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Advances in mathematical description of motion

Complex mathematical investigation of problems relevant to classical and quantum mechanics by EU-funded researchers has led to insight regarding instabilities of dynamic systems. This is important for descriptions ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In metallic glasses, researchers find a few new atomic structures

Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University materials science and engineering researchers has ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Five-limbed brittle stars move bilaterally, like people

It appears that the brittle star, the humble, five-limbed dragnet of the seabed, moves very similarly to us.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New all-sky map shows the magnetic fields of the Milky Way with the highest precision

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at MPA have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicists find charge separation in a molecule consisting of two identical atoms

Physicists from the University of Stuttgart show the first experimental proof of a molecule consisting of two identical atoms that exhibits a permanent electric dipole moment. This observation contradicts ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Through simple system studies, researchers are unearthing a new quantum state of matter

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have made advances in better understanding correlated quantum matter that could change technology as we know it, according to a study published in the Nov. 20 edition of Nature.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (18) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

A 2-dimensional electron liquid solidifies in a magnetic field

Physicists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a theory that describes, in a unified manner, the coexistence of liquid and pinned solid phases of electrons in two dimensions under the influence ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nobel laureate puts the squeeze on hydrogen

Hydrogen, normally a gas, may act like a metal when squeezed under extreme pressure. In that state, competing chemical and physical effects determine its properties, said Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, Cornell's ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Bismuth-based semiconducting material could enable control of electron spin

In the developing field of spintronics, physicists are designing devices to transmit data using the inherent axial rotation, or spin, of electrons rather than their charge as is used in electronics. Weak coupling ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Time reversal: A simple particle could reveal new physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple atomic nucleus could reveal properties associated with the mysterious phenomenon known as time reversal and lead to an explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of physics: the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 128 | with audio podcast


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