In a finding that will help to identify exotic quantum states, RIKEN physicists have seen strongly competing factors that affect an electron's behavior in a high-quality quantum material.
Quantum Physics
Aug 19, 2021
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Photoemission is a property of metals and other materials that emit electrons when struck by light. Electron emission after light absorption was already explained by Albert Einstein. But since this effect is a highly complex ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 15, 2021
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Like all metals, silver, copper, and gold are conductors. Electrons flow across them, carrying heat and electricity. While gold is a good conductor under any conditions, some materials have the property of behaving like metal ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 4, 2021
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A team of researchers from China, the Netherland and Saudi Arabia has used a new kind of electron microscopy to measure weak van der Waals interactions. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes ...
Physicists in Regensburg and Marburg have tailored the mutual interaction of electrons in an atomically thin solid by simply covering it with a crystal featuring hand-picked lattice dynamics.
Nanophysics
Mar 19, 2021
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Researchers have explained how the electronic properties and atomic vibrations of uranium are linked.
General Physics
Mar 10, 2021
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Strongly correlated systems are materials that exhibit strong interactions between electrons, a property unseen in ordinary conductors or insulators. Typical examples include metal-insulator transitions or unconventional ...
Materials Science
Mar 9, 2021
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Ionization of water molecules by light generates free electrons in liquid water. After generation, the so-called solvated electron is formed, a localized electron surrounded by a shell of water molecules. In the ultrafast ...
General Physics
Mar 4, 2021
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A paper on research conducted by Meirielen Caetano de Sousa, postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo's Physics Institute (IF-USP) in Brazil, is highlighted as Editor's Pick in the September issue of Physics of ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 21, 2020
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A team of physicists from the University of Konstanz and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany have achieved attosecond time resolution in a transmission electron microscope by combining it with a continuous-wave ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 11, 2020
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