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Frustration incorporated: How mismatched geometries can enhance material strength and toughness
Anyone who's ever tried tiling a floor, a backsplash or even an arts-and-crafts project probably knows the emotional frustration of working with pieces whose shapes don't perfectly complement each other. It turns out, though, ...
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Making the physics of glass more transparent
For centuries, humans have made use of glass in their art, tools, and technology. Despite the ubiquity of this material, however, many of its microscopic properties are not well understood, and it continues to defy conventional ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 7, 2025
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Physicists uncover a metallic altermagnet with d-wave spin splitting at room temperature
For many years, physics studies focused on two main types of magnetism, namely ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The first type entails the alignment of electron spins in the same direction, while the latter entails ...
Iron nitride's magnetoelastic properties show potential for flexible spintronics
The field of spintronics, which integrates the charge and spin properties of electrons to develop electronic devices with enhanced functionality and energy efficiency, has expanded into new applications.
Condensed Matter
Apr 4, 2025
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Physicists uncover electronic interactions mediated via spin waves
Research by physicists at The City College of New York is being credited for a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding by the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 3, 2025
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Microwave pulses can control ion-molecule reactions at near absolute zero
A key objective of ongoing research rooted in molecular physics is to understand and precisely control chemical reactions at very low temperatures. At low temperatures, the chemical reactions between charged particles (i.e., ...
Crystal melting and the glass transition obey the same physical law
The melting of crystals is the process by which an increase in temperature induces the disruption of the ordered crystalline lattice, leading to the disordered structure and highly fluctuating dynamic behavior of liquids. ...
Scientists unveil new way to electrically control spin for ultra-compact devices using altermagnetic quantum materials
Spintronics, an emerging field of technology, exploits the spin of electrons rather than their charge to process and store information. Spintronics could lead to faster, more power-efficient computers and memory devices. ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 2, 2025
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Physicists investigate dynamic phenomena of a time crystal
Physicists at TU Dortmund University have periodically driven a time crystal and discovered a remarkable variety of nonlinear dynamic phenomena, ranging from perfect synchronization to chaotic behavior within a single semiconductor ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 2, 2025
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A new wave in ultrafast magnetic control
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have developed an innovative method to study ultrafast magnetism in materials. They have shown the generation and application of magnetic ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 2, 2025
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Magnesium becomes a possible superconductor near the 2D limit
Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is highly chemically reactive and is very light (even lighter than aluminum). Magnesium is abundant in plants and minerals and plays a role in human physiology ...
A quantum superhighway for ultrafast NOON states
Until now, creating quantum superpositions of ultra-cold atoms has been a real headache, too slow to be realistic in the laboratory. Researchers at the University of Liège have now developed an innovative new approach combining ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 31, 2025
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Study resolves long-standing debate on low-pressure phase transitions in hafnium oxide
Researchers from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Southwest Jiaotong University, have combined high-pressure electrical ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 31, 2025
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Researchers propose a simple magnetic switch using altermagnets
Controlling magnetism in a device is not easy; unusually large magnetic fields or lots of electricity are needed, which are bulky, slow, expensive and/or waste energy. But that looks soon to change, thanks to the recent discovery ...
Study proposes new mechanism underpinning intrinsic strange metal behavior
Quantum critical points are thresholds that mark the transition of materials between different electronic phases at absolute zero temperatures, around which they often exhibit exotic physical properties.
Thermopower-based technique can detect fractional quantum Hall states
If one side of a conducting or semiconducting material is heated while the other remains cool, charge carriers move from the hot side to the cold side, generating an electrical voltage known as thermopower.
Listening to quantum atoms talk together thanks to acoustics
What happens when a quantum physicist is frustrated by the limitations of quantum mechanics when trying to study densely packed atoms? At EPFL, you get a metamaterial, an engineered material that exhibits exotic properties.
Condensed Matter
Mar 25, 2025
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'Half ice, half fire': Physicists discover new phase of matter in a magnetic material
Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material.
Condensed Matter
Mar 25, 2025
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Meters closer, miles faster: A novel cryogenic in-memory computing scheme to bridge AI with quantum computing
Scholars at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have unveiled an innovation that brings artificial intelligence (AI) closer to quantum computing—both physically and technologically.
Condensed Matter
Mar 24, 2025
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Patterned spintronic emitter enables room-temperature THz polarization control for wireless and biomedical applications
Terahertz (THz) waves are located between microwaves and infrared light in the electromagnetic spectrum. They can pass through many materials without causing damage, making them useful for security scanning, medical imaging, ...
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