MIT scientists watched electrons rebuild inside a quantum material; one phase grew like an ice crystal |
Deep inside a crystal cooled to nearly -230°C, MIT physicists have caught something rarely seen in quantum materials:…
Physicists Discover Time Crystals Can Communicate Across a Semiconductor
Researchers found that multiple continuous time crystals can behave collectively rather than as isolated oscillators. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Separate…
Quantum Fluctuations Break a Crystal’s Symmetry Rules
Illuminating the crystal with light with a built-in sense of rotation (white beam) reveals regions where the star-of-David…
Light Reveals the Hidden Quantum Motion Inside an Exotic Crystal
Researchers used light to reveal the collective motion of electrons forming a Wigner crystal. Credit: Enrique Sahagún, Scixel…
This AI Scientist Could Soon Run Labs on its Own
Forget self-driving cars. The “look ma, no hands” era of autonomy has gone beyond the road and into…
US scientists reveal hidden magnetism in ultrathin quantum material
A team of U.S. researchers has uncovered evidence of a newly proposed form of magnetism in an ultrathin…
World’s First Room-Temperature Quantum Material Sorts Light in an Unprecedented Way
A new Nature study establishes a blueprint for engineering future quantum materials that operate under everyday conditions. Credit:…
Magnetic quantum material enables one-way electrical transport
Scientists at Penn State and Saint Louis University have demonstrated that a magnetic quantum material can naturally produce…
Scientists Discover Quantum Entanglement in a Crystal You Can Hold
Proof of quantum effects in a strange metal. Credit: Harald Ritsch / TU Wien TU Wien has detected…
Scientists unlock faster way to find thousands of new superconductors
Researchers have discovered two new superconductors using a machine learning-based screening method, demonstrating a faster way to identify…
Physicists Discover a Fundamental Limit to Electrical Resistance
An artist’s impression of the resistivity that results from cold atomic collisions. Researchers investigating interaction-induced resistivity of ultracold…
Physicists discover the upper limit of electrical resistance in metals
Electrical resistance is easy to notice and hard to pin down. Power lines shed energy as heat, and…