Quantum coherent beating in polar disubphthalocyanine-fullerene cocrystals for ultrafast photothermal conversion
Sun, L. et al. Creating organic functional materials beyond chemical bond synthesis by organic cocrystal engineering. J. Am.…
Crystalline symmetry breaking enables directional light emission in quantum dots
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Single-shot full-field X-ray imaging with 10-nm resolution using hard X-ray free-electron laser pulses
Miao, J., Charalambous, P., Kirz, J. & Sayre, D. Extending the methodology of X-ray crystallography to allow imaging…
Breakthrough Technique Reveals Atomic Secrets of Record-Breaking Superconductors
Artistic representation of the interior of a diamond anvil cell. A copper-colored, multi-stage Lenz lens is placed on…
Magnon Breakthrough Could Shrink Quantum Computers to the Size of a Penny
Researchers have shown that elusive magnetic excitations can survive far longer than previously thought, opening new possibilities for…
Physicists Have Measured “Negative Time” in Bizarre Quantum Experiment
A quantum physics experiment showed photons can exhibit negative dwell time while traveling through atoms. Scientists confirmed the…
Giant trion modulation in scalable monolayer MoS2 via plasmonic HfN gates
Monolayer MoS2 was synthesized over large areas on c-plane sapphire substrates via CVD (Methods and Supplementary Fig. 1)28…
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Could Help Unlock the Mysteries of Causality
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For the past few decades, researchers have understood…
Negative time could be real as light appears to exit atoms before entry
Physicists have just uncovered fresh evidence for a bizarre quantum phenomenon called negative time, where photons appear to…
Electrically programmable circularly polarized three-dimensional display
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Free-space twin-field quantum key distribution
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Entanglement-enabled image transmission through complex media
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