The same electrostatic charge that can make hair stand on end and attach balloons to clothing could be an efficient way to drive atomically thin electronic memory devices of the future, according to a new study led by researchers ...
General Physics
Oct 11, 2017
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A team of researchers from several institutions in Germany and Austria has developed a means for directly observing dynamical quantum phase transitions in an interacting many-body system. In their paper published in the journal ...
Nagoya University-led team of physicists use a synchrotron radiation X-ray source to probe a so-called "structure-less" transition and develop a new understanding of molecular conductors.
Condensed Matter
Aug 21, 2017
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The peculiar characteristics demonstrated by quantum critical points at absolute zero remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of science.
Quantum Physics
Aug 1, 2017
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Computers that fit in our pockets, television screens no thicker than a door, and cars only slightly bigger than their passengers, technology is constantly getting smaller. A major reason for this miniaturization is the ...
Nanophysics
Jul 31, 2017
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) demonstrated that monolayer 2-D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs)—atomically thin semiconductors—undergo a change from semiconductor-to-metallic ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 25, 2017
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Many physical phenomena can be modeled with relatively simple math. But, in the quantum world there are a vast number of intriguing phenomena that emerge from the interactions of multiple particles—"many bodies" - which ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 17, 2017
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An international team led by scientists from IPN Orsay (CNRS/Université Paris-Sud), CEA, and RIKEN (Japan) has performed the first spectroscopy of the extremely neutron-rich isotopes krypton 98 and 100. This experiment showed ...
General Physics
Jun 23, 2017
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Some organic crystals jump around when heated up. This happens because of an extremely fast change in their crystal structure. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists have now demonstrated that the crystals send out ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 15, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Phase transitions are transformations that occur between states of matter—that is, between solid, liquid, gas, and less commonly between gas and plasma. What may be surprising is that solid-solid phase transitions, ...
