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Condensed Matter Mar 5, 2025

Room-temperature superconductors: Fundamental constants suggest they could exist within our universe

In a new development that could help redefine the future of technology, a team of physicists has uncovered a fundamental insight into the upper limit of superconducting temperature.

Nanophysics Mar 3, 2025

Chiral organometallic nanosheets offer room-temperature multiferroicity and topological features

Recently, a research team found a way to design a class of homochiral organometallic nanosheets that exhibit room-temperature multiferroic and topological nodes. Their study is published in Nano Letters.

Condensed Matter Mar 3, 2025

Researchers discover magnetic equivalent of the Lyddane-Sachs-Teller relation

Materials are known to interact with electromagnetic fields in different ways, which reflect their structures and underlying properties. The Lyddane-Sachs-Teller relation is a physics construct that describes the relationship ...

Nanophysics Feb 25, 2025

Mesoporous silicon: Etching technique reveals unique electronic transport properties

Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team at HZB has now produced mesoporous ...

Nanophysics Feb 20, 2025

How carbon nanotubes give out more than they receive

Three RIKEN physicists have discovered how tiny tubes of carbon spit out light that is more energetic than the light shone on them. This finding could help to exploit the process in applications such as solar power and biological ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 19, 2025

Dynamic 3D displays: Rare-earth glasses offer vivid, tunable colors

The limitations of two-dimensional (2D) displays in representing the depth of the three-dimensional (3D) world have prompted researchers to explore alternatives that offer a more immersive experience. Volumetric displays ...

Condensed Matter Feb 19, 2025

Magnetic switch traps quantum information carriers in one dimension

A quantum "miracle material" could support magnetic switching, a team of researchers at the University of Regensburg and University of Michigan has shown.

Condensed Matter Feb 18, 2025

Nanoscale technique uses atomic vibrations to show how quantum materials behave at interfaces

Scientists are racing to develop new materials for quantum technologies in computing and sensing for ultraprecise measurements. For these future technologies to transition from the laboratory to real-world applications, a ...

Condensed Matter Feb 17, 2025

Pressure-driven phase transition induces simultaneous negative photoconductivity and superconductivity

A research team led by Prof. Wang Xianlong and Dr. Wang Pei from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a concurrent negative photoconductivity (NPC) and superconductivity ...

Quantum Physics Feb 10, 2025

Entangling two physically separate resonators enables a major advance in the science of quantum sound

Entanglement—linking distant particles or groups of particles so that one cannot be described without the other—is at the core of the quantum revolution changing the face of modern technology.

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