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Condensed Matter Dec 19, 2022

Researchers realize remote tuning of lifetime of coupled Dirac plasmons

Recently, the team led by Prof. Zeng Changgan from the University of Sciences and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with Li Xiaoguang's team from Shenzhen University, has enabled ...

Nanophysics Dec 15, 2022

A shield for 2D materials that adds vibrations to reduce vibration problems

Monash University researchers have demonstrated a new, counterintuitive way to protect atomically thin electronics—adding vibrations, to reduce vibrations.

General Physics Dec 13, 2022

Studying spinning-induced scattering of sound to create next-generation acoustic devices using new phonon modes

Interactions between a spinning object and soundwaves could help develop high-precision tools, such as tweezers that control the motion and position of submillimeter objects by manipulating acoustic waves, a KAUST-led international ...

Analytical Chemistry Dec 8, 2022

Solving the puzzle: Cubic silicon carbide wafer demonstrates high thermal conductivity, second only to diamond

A team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Material Science and Engineering researchers have solved a long-standing puzzle about lower measured thermal conductivity values of cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) bulk crystals ...

Condensed Matter Dec 8, 2022

Single-electron devices could manage heat flow in electronic components

RIKEN physicists have fabricated a nanoscale "heat engine" that uses a property of electrons known as spin as the effective working medium. It is promising for exploring the development of spintronic heat engines capable ...

Quantum Physics Dec 7, 2022

Squeezing microwave fields by magnetostrictive interaction

Squeezed states of the electromagnetic field find many important applications in quantum information science and quantum metrology. Dr. Jie Li et al. at Zhejiang University put forward a new mechanism for preparing microwave ...

Quantum Physics Nov 28, 2022

A scalable quantum memory with a lifetime over 2 seconds and integrated error detection

Quantum memory devices can store data as quantum states instead of binary states, as classical computer memories do. While some existing quantum memory technologies have achieved highly promising results, several challenges ...

Optics & Photonics Nov 21, 2022

Researchers control individual light quanta at very high speed

A team of German and Spanish researchers from Valencia, Münster, Augsburg, Berlin and Munich have succeeded in controlling individual light quanta to an extremely high degree of precision. In Nature Communications, the researchers ...

Superconductivity Nov 18, 2022

Scientists closer to solving a superconducting puzzle with applications in medicine, transport and power transmission

Researchers studying the magnetic behavior of a cuprate superconductor may have explained some of the unusual properties of their conduction electrons.

Quantum Physics Nov 17, 2022

A new experiment pushes the boundaries of our understanding of topological quantum matter

New research conducted by Princeton University physicists is delving with high resolution into the complex and fascinating world of topological quantum matter—a branch of physics that studies the inherent quantum properties ...

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