Search results for quasi-long-range order

Optics & Photonics Jun 26, 2023

Broadband and continuous wave pumped second-harmonic generation from microfiber coated with layered GaSe crystal

Second-order optical nonlinear effects have received widespread attention from researchers since its first discovery in the 1960s.

Astronomy Apr 27, 2023

NICER detects quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binary 4U 1730–22

Using the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), an international team of astronomers has detected millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations from a low-mass X-ray binary ...

Earth Sciences Feb 23, 2023

Scientists reveal influence of Asian summer monsoon on volcanic aerosol transport

Aerosols transported to the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) region potentially reduce average global surface temperatures and alter atmospheric circulation. Although large volcanic eruptions are rare in recent ...

Astronomy Feb 21, 2023

Quasi-periodic oscillations detected in a long-period eclipsing dwarf nova

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), Chinese astronomers have detected quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the light curve of HS 2325+8205—a long-period eclipsing dwarf nova. The discovery was detailed ...

Nanophysics Dec 16, 2022

Study observes Luttinger liquid behavior in a quasi-2D system

Luttinger liquids are usually paramagnetic materials exhibiting non-Fermi liquid behavior, such as molybdenum oxides. These "liquids" and their fascinating properties had so far been only observed in 1D and quasi-1D compounds, ...

Nanophysics Jun 24, 2022

Topology and machine learning reveal hidden relationship in amorphous silicon

Theoretical scientists have used topological mathematics and machine learning to identify a hidden relationship between nano-scale structures and thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon, a glassy form of the material with ...

General Physics Jun 17, 2022

Electrons take the fast and slow lanes at the same time

Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. One lane is for slow cars, and the other is for fast ones. For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers in Cambridge and Frankfurt have discovered that there are ...

Superconductivity May 19, 2022

Spin keeps electrons in line in iron-based superconductor

Researchers from PSI's Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials group together with scientists from Beijing Normal University have solved a puzzle at the forefront of research into iron-based superconductors: the origin of FeSe's ...

Condensed Matter Apr 5, 2022

Novel framework for classifying chaos and thermalization

One popular example of chaotic behavior is the butterfly effect—a butterfly may flap its wings in somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and cause a tornado in Colorado. This remarkable fable illustrates how the extreme sensitivity ...

Astronomy Jan 25, 2022

Unusual emission from pulsar PSR B1859+07 examined with FAST

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have investigated a peculiar emission phenomena exhibited by a pulsar known as PSR B1859+07. Results of the study, published January ...

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