Use your computer without the need to start it up: a new type of magnetic memory makes it possible. This 'MRAM' is faster, more efficient and robust than other kinds of data storage. However, switching bits still requires ...
General Physics
Mar 4, 2016
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The research group of Professor Hideo Ohno and Associate Professor Shunsuke Fukami of Tohoku University has studied the control of magnetization using a current applied to heterostructures comprising an antiferromagnet. They ...
General Physics
Feb 17, 2016
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In what may provide a potential path to processing information in a quantum computer, researchers have switched an intrinsic property of electrons from an excited state to a relaxed state on demand using a device that served ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 15, 2016
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Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yale-NUS College have established the mechanisms for spin motion in molybdenum disulfide, an emerging two-dimensional (2D) material. Their discovery resolves a ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 1, 2016
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In "Star Trek," a transporter can teleport a person from one location to a remote location without actually making the journey along the way. Such a transporter has fascinated many people. Quantum teleportation shares several ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 14, 2016
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Accelerator physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully implemented an innovative scheme for increasing proton collision rates at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ...
General Physics
Jan 4, 2016
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Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have demonstrated that diamonds may hold the key to the future for ...
General Physics
Dec 16, 2015
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A team of scientists, including physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Centre, have demonstrated a method of exciting magnetic vortices, which could potentially be used in the electronics of the future as information ...
General Physics
Dec 2, 2015
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Researchers from Stanford have advanced a long-standing problem in quantum physics – how to send "entangled" particles over long distances.
Quantum Physics
Nov 25, 2015
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Miniaturization is the magic word when it comes to nanomagnetic devices intended for use in new types of electronic components. Scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have proposed the use of ion ...
General Physics
Nov 23, 2015
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