Breaking symmetry in time to protect light
Topologically protected states in a photonic crystal can prevent backscattering of light, but creating these states requires the…
Broadband Photodetector Material Integrating Day-Night Recognition and Distance Measurement
Newswise — A research team in South Korea has developed a next-generation sensor material capable of integrating the…
Structural constraint integration in a generative model for the discovery of quantum materials
Fu, L. Topological crystalline insulators. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106802 (2011). Article PubMed Google Scholar Bihlmayer, G., Noël,…
Ultraconfined terahertz phonon polaritons in hafnium dichalcogenides
Li, N. et al. Direct observation of highly confined phonon polaritons in suspended monolayer hexagonal boron nitride. Nat.…
What if Your Refrigerator Was Twice As Efficient and Completely Silent?
Researchers at APL have developed new materials called CHESS that significantly improve the efficiency of thermoelectric cooling devices.…
New Breakthrough Could Bring Holograms to Your Phone
Scientists at the University of St Andrews have unveiled a breakthrough that could change the future of holographic…
Scientists Create Magnetic Nanohelices To Control Electron Spin at Room Temperature
The twisting direction of metal nanoparticles is controlled to be right- or left-handed by adding chiral molecules, which…
Scientists Watch an Atom’s Nucleus Flip in Real Time for the First Time
Artist’s impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
UCLA Engineers Build Room-Temperature Quantum-Inspired Computer
Scientists have built a physics-inspired computing system that uses oscillators, rather than digital processing, to solve complex optimization…
Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons
Chaikin, P. M. & Lubensky, T. C. Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). Yeh, P.…
The expanding world of topological ferroelectrics
In this issue we present three papers on the topological properties or structure of ferroelectrics, which are interlinked.…
Nanostructures boost CRISPR delivery for genetic medicine
With the power to rewrite the genetic code underlying countless diseases, CRISPR holds immense promise to revolutionize medicine.…