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.…
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). CASÂ …
Quantum oscillations in a dipolar excitonic insulator
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Scientists Discover a Cheaper, More Powerful Catalyst for Clean Hydrogen Energy
An artistic interpretation of the new catalytic material performing a reaction to split water. Credit: Jin Huang and…
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).…
Unique molecule may lead to smaller, more efficient computers
Today, most of us carry a fairly powerful computer in our hand—a smartphone. But computers weren’t always so…
Flatland wakes based on leaky hyperbolic polaritons
Zhang, Q. et al. Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons. Nature 597, 187–195 (2021). CAS PubMed Google…
Scaling up Australian nanotechnology manufacturing
Manufacturers’ Monthly spoke with Professor Brain Abbey from La Trobe University on the scale up manufacturing of nanotechnology…