Using a needle far thinner than a human hair, scientists revealed how to control mechanical stiffness in a promising material. The team applied an electric field with a nano-sized needle to cause a reversible change in the ...
Nanophysics
Feb 24, 2017
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A research group from Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with French colleagues at CNRS Grenoble, has developed a unique experiment to detect quantum events in ultra-thin films. This novel research, to be published in ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 22, 2017
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A machine learning algorithm designed to teach computers how to recognize photos, speech patterns, and hand-written digits has now been applied to a vastly different set of data: identifying phase transitions between states ...
General Physics
Feb 13, 2017
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A group of scientists led by Johannes Fink from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) reported the first experimental observation of a first-order phase transition in a dissipative quantum system. ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 2, 2017
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Snow falls in winter and melts in spring, but what drives the phase change in between?
Condensed Matter
Feb 1, 2017
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A new ultrafast technique, using high-energy electrons coupled to a laser pump, revealed insights into atomic vibrational dynamics in a laser-heated gold thin film. This technique directly measured the phonon spectrum (quantized ...
General Physics
Jan 30, 2017
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Phase transitions surround us—for instance, liquid water changes to ice when frozen and to steam when boiled. Now, researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science have discovered a new phenomenon of so-called metastability ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 23, 2017
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When matter changes from solids to liquids to vapors, the changes are called phase transitions. Among the most interesting types are more exotic changes—quantum phase transitions—where the strange properties of quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 20, 2017
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A group of European scientists led by researchers at TU Delft has discovered how phase transitions propagate throughout materials called nickelates. The discovery improves our understanding of these novel materials, which ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 16, 2017
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PARK Je-Geun, Associate Director at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems and collaborators have demonstrated the magnetic behavior of a special class of 2-D materials. This is the first experimental proof to a theory ...
Nanophysics
Jan 3, 2017
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