New quantum boundary discovered: Spin size determines how the Kondo effect behaves
image: The size of the spin crucially affects how the system behaves. At spin-1/2, fully quantum spins pair…
Physicists Have Achieved Quantum “Alchemy” by Exciting Electrons to High-Energy States
A promising—and powerful—new engineering breakthrough could soon enable researchers to alter the properties of materials by exciting electrons…
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry
Quantum and classical model The theory of Talbot–Lau interference is best formulated in phase space using the Wigner–Weyl…
The obscure physics theory that helped Chinese science emerge from the shadows – Physics World
The obscure physics theory that helped Chinese science emerge from the shadows – Physics World Skip to main…
Billion-times more efficient fusion unlocked with low-frequency laser
A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that could lower the extreme temperature requirements for controlled nuclear…
Large-scale dynamos driven by shear-flow-induced jets
Parker, E. N. Hydromagnetic dynamo models. Astrophys. J. 122, 293–314 (1955). Article MathSciNet Google Scholar Batchelor, G. K.…
Gravity Solved? This Wild New Idea Might Explain the Entire Universe in One Shot
A recent study proposes that gravity, the force shaping galaxies and anchoring planets, might not be fundamental after…
Orbital Seebeck effect induced by chiral phonons
Zhang, L. & Niu, Q. Chiral phonons at high-symmetry points in monolayer hexagonal lattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115,…
Nanosculpted 3D helices of a magnetic Weyl semimetal with switchable non-reciprocal electron transport
Fiebig, M., Lottermoser, T., Meier, D. & Trassin, M. The evolution of multiferroics. Nat. Rev. Mater. 1, 1–14…
The World’s Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old : ScienceAlert
Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous.…
Positronium finally shows wave behavior in landmark quantum experiment
Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the smallest scales. One of…
Twisted graphene puts magnetic fields in check
A graphene-based quantum sensor uses two decoupled layers to form a quantized 4 × 4 Landau-level checkerboard when…