Quantum Fluctuations Break a Crystal’s Symmetry Rules
Illuminating the crystal with light with a built-in sense of rotation (white beam) reveals regions where the star-of-David…
From equilibrium to ultrafast antiferromagnetism
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Krypton-sputtered tantalum films for scalable high-performance quantum devices
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Bridging ambient- and high-pressure superconductivity in La2LnNi2O7 films
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Scientists Reprogram How Light Travels in Just 74 Femtoseconds
Researchers have shown that nanoscale silicon structures can amplify an otherwise weak optical effect enough to control light…
Shape, strain and spin texture as a modern triad for magnetic materials
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Topology-guided vortices in a polariton condensate
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Scientists Expose Hidden Quantum Identity of a Superconductor
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New US-designed mesh mimics tangled seaweed to capture microplastics
A team of US scientists has developed a biodegradable mesh inspired by tangled seaweed that can capture microplastics…
Scientists Discover What Makes Hydrogen Go Quantum
A hidden structural switch inside vanadium determines whether hydrogen behaves like a particle or a quantum wave. The…
World’s First Photonic Time Crystal Can Reshape Light in Trillionths of a Second
A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice…
Fermiology-driven goniopolar transverse thermoelectricity in kagome metals
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