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Bridging the gap between the magnetic and electronic properties of topological insulators
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology shed light on the relationship between the magnetic properties of topological insulators and their electronic band structure. Their experimental results offer new insights into ...
General Physics
Sep 24, 2020
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Glass molecules can act like sand when jammed, study finds
UO researchers have discovered that molecules in glass materials behave just like particles in sand and rocks as they jam together, a mechanism that could boost explorations of condensed matter and complex systems.
Condensed Matter
Sep 24, 2020
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Researchers develop method to create colloidal diamonds
The colloidal diamond has been a dream of researchers since the 1990s. These structures—stable, self-assembled formations of miniscule materials—have the potential to make light waves as useful as electrons in computing, ...
General Physics
Sep 23, 2020
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Having a ball: Crystallization in a sphere
Crystallization is the assembly of atoms or molecules into highly ordered solid crystals, which occurs in natural, biological, and artificial systems. However, crystallization in confined spaces, such as the formation of ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 21, 2020
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Scientists find a new mechanism for the stabilization of skyrmions
Tiny magnetic whirls that can occur in materials—so-called skyrmions—hold high promises for novel electronic devices or magnetic memory in which they are used as bits to store information. A fundamental prerequisite for ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 21, 2020
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Defying a 150-year-old rule for phase behavior
Frozen water can take on up to three forms at the same time when it melts: liquid, ice and gas. This principle, which states that many substances can occur in up to three phases simultaneously, was explained 150 years ago ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 21, 2020
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Aberrant electronic and structural alterations in pressure-tuned perovskite
The perovskite NaOsO3 has a complicated but interesting temperature-dependent metal-insulator transition (MIT). A team led by Drs. Raimundas Sereika and Yang Ding from the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 21, 2020
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New design principles for spin-based quantum materials
As our lives become increasingly intertwined with technology—whether supporting communication while working remotely or streaming our favorite show—so too does our reliance on the data these devices create. Data centers ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 18, 2020
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Shedding light on the development of efficient blue-emitting semiconductors
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have discovered a new alkali copper halide, Cs5Cu3Cl6I2, that emits pure blue light. The combination of the two halide ions, chloride and iodide, gives the material ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 17, 2020
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Supercooled water is a stable liquid, scientists show for the first time
Supercooled water is really two liquids in one. That's the conclusion reached by a research team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory after making the first-ever measurements of liquid ...
General Physics
Sep 17, 2020
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Scientists obtain broad-band single-mode lasers in colloidal quantum dots
In the past two decades, great efforts have been made to achieve lasers based on colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), especially CQD-based single-mode lasers, which is important in on-chip optical processing and data storage due ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 17, 2020
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Collaboration yields promising material for quantum computing
Researchers at the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab and the University of Copenhagen, working closely together, have succeeded in realizing an important and promising material for use in a future quantum computer. For this ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 16, 2020
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Liquid water at 170 degrees Celsius: X-ray laser reveals anomalous dynamics at ultra-fast heating
Using the X-ray laser European XFEL, a research team has investigated how water heats up under extreme conditions. In the process, the scientists were able to observe water that remained liquid even at temperatures of more ...
General Physics
Sep 16, 2020
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Liquid carbon characterized using a free electron laser
From common soot to precious diamonds, carbon is familiar in many guises, but there have been little more than glimpses of carbon in the liquid form. Researchers at the FERMI Free Electron Laser (FEL) source have now not ...
Predicting delayed instabilities in viscoelastic solids
It is presently challenging to determine the stability of viscoelastic structures since seemingly stable conformations may gradually creep (plastic deformation of a material under stress as a function of time) until their ...
AI used to show how hydrogen becomes a metal inside giant planets
Dense metallic hydrogen—a phase of hydrogen which behaves like an electrical conductor—makes up the interior of giant planets, but it is difficult to study and poorly understood. By combining artificial intelligence and ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 09, 2020
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Kondo physics in antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal films
Emerging quantum materials can be defined by topology and strong electron correlations, although their applications in experimental systems are relatively limited. Weyl semimetals incorporating magnetism offer a unique and ...
Devitrification demystified: Scientists show how glass crystallizes in real-time
Glass is amorphous in nature—its atomic structure does not involve the repetitive arrangement seen in crystalline materials. But occasionally, it undergoes a process called devitrification, which is the transformation of ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 08, 2020
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A step toward a better understanding of molecular dynamics
EPFL researchers, working at the boundary between classical and quantum physics, have developed a method for quickly spotting molecules with particularly interesting electron properties.
Condensed Matter
Sep 04, 2020
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Quantum simulation of quantum crystals
The quantum properties underlying crystal formation can be replicated and investigated with the help of ultracold atoms. A team led by Dr. Axel U. J. Lode from the University of Freiburg's Institute of Physics has now described ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 27, 2020
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