An infrared laser pulse induces superconductivity at high temperatures in K3C60. After a prolonged excitation, this light-induced state becomes metastable for many nanoseconds. Credit: ©…
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Rotation of electron spins in superconductors of atomic-scale thickness may be used to make qubits for quantum computing. Superconductivity is known to be easily destroyed…
Formation of moiré pattern by two honeycomb lattices. Credit: Microwave Nano-Electronics Lab, UC Riverside UC Riverside-led study observed unexpected insulating phases by placing electrons on…
Fabricating nanoelectronic circuits of the future just got a lot more interesting, thanks to DNA origami. The quest for ever-smaller electronic components led an international…
Levitation of a magnet on top of a superconductor. Credit: Jubobroff, Fbouquet, LPS CC BY-SA 3.0 A new theory that could explain how unconventional superconductivity…
MIT researchers are developing a superconducting nanowire, which could enable more efficient superconducting electronics. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT Inspired by decades-old MIT research, the new…
A Princeton-led team of physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called “topological quantum states,” which, has implications for…
A cube of magnetic material levitates above a superconductor. The field of the magnet induces currents in the superconductor that generate an equal and opposite…
An illustration showing how highly nanostructured 3-D superconducting materials can be created based on DNA self-assembly. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Complex 3D nanoscale architectures based…
Superconductivity is a phenomenon where an electric circuit loses its resistance and becomes extremely efficient under certain conditions. There are different ways in which this…
Professor Somnath Bhattacharyya next to the vapor deposition chamber that is used to produce diamonds in the lab. Credit: Wits University The discovery of triplet…
Professor of physics Andrew Jordan and his colleagues will use superconducting circuits to design experiments that can be carried out within a realistic quantum system,…
For decades Z-X Shen has ridden a wave of curiosity about the strange behavior of electrons that can levitate magnets. Zhi-Xun Shen vividly remembers his…
Figure 1. Schematic of the metal-like quantum gas. Credit: NINS/IMS Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy…
Artist’s rendering of electron spins frustrated as the sample of magnetic material is pressurized into a spin liquid state. Credit: Daniel Haskel Using two flat-top…
An optical image of the graphene device on a silicon dioxide/silicon chip. Shining metal wires are connected to gold electrodes for electrical measurement. Credit: Guorui…
Illustration of a zirconium vanadium hydride atomic structure at near ambient conditions as determined using neutron vibrational spectroscopy and the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge…
Ultrafast pulses of extreme ultraviolet light are created in a gas jet of white plasma, and are visible as blue dots on a phosphor screen…
Illustration of a Monte Carlo simulation, where a calculation is run billions of times in slightly different ways to arrive at a range of possible…
A new study proposed a scheme to achieve ultrahigh reduced transition temperature, up to Tc/TF ~ 1, in two-component atomic Fermi gases, a system that…