A crystalline lattice melting, artistically represented here as a snowflake, is superimposed upon its coherent X-ray scattering pattern. Credit: ICFO/ Patricia Bondia Using light to…
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Researchers at The University of Tokyo grow a nanoscale layer of a superconducting material on top of a nitride-semiconductor substrate, which may help facilitate the…
The discovery is a step towards much more accessible superconductivity. It may be possible to develop superconductors that operate at room temperature with further knowledge…
A team of physicists from UNLV’s Nevada Extreme Conditions Lab (NEXCL) used a diamond anvil cell, a research device similar to the one pictured, in…
Illustration of Andreev reflection between a superconductor and an atomically sharp metal tip. Credit: Aalto University / Jose Lado New technique helps researchers understand unconventional…
Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering reveals high-energy nematic spin correlations in the nematic state of the iron-based superconductor, FeSe. Credit: Beijing Normal University/Qi Tang and Xingye…
Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory The new facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from…
To study superconducting materials in their “normal,” non-superconducting state, scientists usually switch off superconductivity by exposing the material to a magnetic field, left. SLAC scientists…
Nematic order in twisted bilayer graphene. Credit: Seiichiro Onari Superconductors are materials that conduct electrical current with almost no electrical resistance at all. This property…
Credit: Graphics by Carly Wilkins, Energy Department What if you could travel from New York to Los Angeles in just under seven hours without boarding…
MIT researchers discovered hidden magnetic properties in multi-layered electronic material by analyzing polarized neutrons using neural networks. Credit: Ella Maru Studio An MITMIT is an…
Credit: Image by Ellen Weiss/Argonne National Laboratory Magnetic interactions could point to quantum devices. From MRI machines to computer hard disk storage, magnetism has played…
University of Houston Researchers Exploring the Bounds of Room-Temperature Superconductivity. In the simplest terms, superconductivity between two or more objects means zero wasted electricity. It…
Discovered time-reversal symmetry-breaking fields imply the presence of long-theorized ‘orbital currents’, where charge flows spontaneously in loops around the unit cells of the kagome lattice.…
Rotating flashing lights represent the concept of spin. Leveraging electron spin adds a new dimension to data encoding. Remember flip-phones? Our smartphones may one day…
New method from Clemson University researcher, enabled by Frontera supercomputer, helps explain role of phonons in copper-based superconductivity. Researchers have known about high-temperature superconducting copper-based…
A new discovery could help scientists to understand “strange metals,” a class of materials that are related to high-temperature superconductors and share fundamental quantum attributes…
An artist’s impression of a neutron striking a sample of superconducting uranium ditelluride in experiments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Crystals of uranium (dark gray)…
Physicists have created a new ultra-thin two-layer material with quantum properties that normally require rare earth compounds. Credit: Heikka Valja By combining two-dimensional materials, researchers…
Scientists performed transmission electron microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials and National Synchrotron Light Source II to characterize…