Search results for nonequilibrium dynamics

Superconductivity Jan 3, 2019

Physicists uncover new competing state of matter in superconducting material

A team of experimentalists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and theoreticians at University of Alabama Birmingham discovered a remarkably long-lived new state of matter in an iron pnictide superconductor, ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Dec 7, 2018

New model for assessing the effect of ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices

The main trend in the development of hardware components for digital and analog electronic equipment is to reduce the size of the active regions of diode and transistor structures. This can be achieved by improving the performance ...

General Physics Oct 29, 2018

Shedding light on Weyl fermions

Researchers from the Theory Department of the MPSD in Hamburg and North Carolina State University in the US have demonstrated that the long-sought magnetic Weyl semi-metallic state can be induced by ultrafast laser pulses ...

Quantum Physics Sep 20, 2018

Quantum anomaly—breaking a classical symmetry with ultracold atoms

A FLEET study of ultracold atomic gases—a billionth the temperature of outer space—has unlocked new, fundamental quantum effects. The researchers at Swinburne University of Technology studied collective oscillations in ultracold ...

General Physics Aug 29, 2018

Electric polarization in the macroscopic world and electrons moving at atomic scales

Femtosecond X-ray experiments in combination with a new theoretical approach establish a direct connection between electric properties in the macroscopic world and electron motions on the time and length scale of atoms. The ...

Bio & Medicine Jul 12, 2018

Brain function partly replicated by nanomaterials

The brain requires surprisingly little energy to adapt to the environment to learn, make ambiguous recognitions, have high recognition ability and intelligence, and perform complex information processing.

Superconductivity Apr 30, 2018

Scientists pinpoint energy flowing through vibrations in superconducting crystals

Manipulating the flow of energy through superconductors could radically transform technology, perhaps leading to applications such as ultra-fast, highly efficient quantum computers. But these subtle dynamics—including heat ...

Condensed Matter Apr 17, 2018

Machine learning techniques may reveal cause-effect relationships in protein dynamics data

Machine learning algorithms excel at finding complex patterns within big data, so researchers often use them to make predictions. Researchers are pushing this emerging technology beyond finding correlations to help uncover ...

General Physics Nov 2, 2017

Physicists show how lifeless particles can become 'life-like' by switching behaviors

Physicists at Emory University have shown how a system of lifeless particles can become "life-like" by collectively switching back and forth between crystalline and fluid states—even when the environment remains stable.

Condensed Matter Aug 14, 2017

The critical point in breaking the glass problem

Famously described as 'the deepest problem in solid state physics' by Nobel Laureate, Philip Andersen, the glass transition, by which a liquid transforms into a solid without freezing, is shedding its mystique.

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