Scientists Discover a “Giant” New Twist on a 140-Year-Old Effect
For the first time, researchers have uncovered a giant anomalous Hall effect in a nonmagnetic material, rewriting established…
Chemists cram record nine metals into trendy 2D material
Chemists have doubled the members of a family of buzzy 2D materials, and even jammed a record nine…
Why Is Ice Slippery? New Study Overturns 200-Year-Old Physics Theory
It isn’t pressure or friction that makes ice slippery, but hidden forces at the molecular level. New findings…
The expanding world of topological ferroelectrics
In this issue we present three papers on the topological properties or structure of ferroelectrics, which are interlinked.…
Competition between excitonic insulators and quantum Hall states in correlated electron–hole bilayers
Zeng, Y. & MacDonald, A. H. Electrically controlled two-dimensional electron-hole fluids. Phys. Rev. B 102, 085154 (2020). CAS …
Quantum oscillations in a dipolar excitonic insulator
Li, G. et al. Two-dimensional Fermi surfaces in Kondo insulator SmB6. Science 346, 1208–1212 (2014). PubMed CAS Google…
Scientists Create Liquid Carbon in the Lab for the First Time
Researchers have been able to measure liquid carbon experimentally for the first time. They combined a high-power laser…
Distinct terahertz nonlinear and Raman responses in cuprate superconductors Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
Tinkham, M. Introduction to superconductivity. Second Edition, Dover Books on Physics (Courier Corporation, 2004). Kampfrath, T., Tanaka, K.…
Unconventional scaling of the orbital Hall effect
Manchon, A. et al. Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems. Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 035004 (2019).…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone
Devices (artist’s illustration) kept aloft by sunlight could take sensors into an understudied layer of the atmosphere.Credit: Schafer…