Zapping Quantum Materials With Lasers Reveals How Atoms Relate
Lex Kemper is an associate professor of physics at NC State. He studies quantum materials: solid materials that have nifty physical properties that make them…
Quantum Materials
Pioneering Experiment Turns IBM’s Largest Quantum Computer Into a Quantum Material
Pioneering experiment could help design energy-efficient materials. In a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Research, a group of University of Chicago scientists announced they…
Exploring the Unusual Electronic States and Optical Properties of Quantum-Sized Materials
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) synthesize sub-nanometer particles with precisely controlled proportions of indium and tin using specific macromolecular templates called dendrimers….
Physicists Discover Strange New Magnetoelectric Effect
In a very unusual way, the electrical and magnetic properties of a particular crystal are linked together — the phenomenon was discovered and explained at…
Dive Deep Into Hidden World of Quantum States to Find Silicon’s Successor in Race Against Moore’s Law
Discovery by scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley could help find silicon’s successor in race against Moore’s Law. In the search for new materials with…
Atomic ‘Swiss Army Knife’ Precisely Measures Advanced Materials for Quantum Computers
NIST unveils blueprint for building a three-in-one measurement tool to study quantum materials. It images single atoms. It maps atomic-scale hills and valleys on metal…
Orbitronics Breakthrough: Scientists Break the Link Between a Quantum Material’s Spin and Orbital States
The advance opens a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices that could be 10,000 times faster than today’s. In designing electronic…
New Quantum Switch Turns Metals Into Insulators by Altering the Quantum Nature of the Material
Most modern electronic devices rely on tiny, finely-tuned electrical currents to process and store information. These currents dictate how fast our computers run, how regularly…
First Antiferromagnetic Topological Quantum Material Discovered by Scientists
Quantum materials are worldwide in the focus of research activities within diverse scientific disciplines. This material class appears to be increasingly complex and rich in…
Superconductor or Not? Exploring the Identity Crisis of This Weird Quantum Material
Northeastern researchers have used a powerful computer model to probe a puzzling class of copper-based materials that can be turned into superconductors. Their findings offer…
False Alarm: The So-Called ‘Angel Particle’ Is Still a Mystery
A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion — the chiral Majorana fermion, referred to as the “angel particle” —…
Quantum Materials Revolutionized by Multi-Modal Nanoscience
Bringing a Technique From Astronomy to the Nano-Scale to Score a Quantum Breakthrough Researchers at Columbia University and University of California, San Diego, have introduced…
New Way to Identify, Manipulate Topological Metals for Quantum Information and Spintronics
Scientists pioneer technique for working with topological materials. Topological materials have become a hot topic in quantum materials research, as they have potential applications for…
Surprise From Ring-Shaped Nanoparticle Leads to Improved Quantum Information Technology
Breaking of rotational symmetry in ring-shaped nanoparticle leads to surprising quantum property when illuminated with laser. Particles that are mere nanometers in size are at…
New Semiconductor Nanostructure for Efficient Quantum Electronics
Peculiar Bi provoked nanostructures in compound semiconductor nanowires controlled by atomically precise epitaxial crystal growth. Nanowire is a rod-structure with a diameter typically narrower than…
“Completely Unexpected” – MIT Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in Quantum Material
The X-ray-focusing lens used in the experiment is based on a design used in lighthouses for centuries. A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs…
New Quantum Electronic Material Discovered by Physicists
With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior. A motif of Japanese basketweaving known as the kagome pattern…
Physicists Create a New Quantum Particle That Exhibits Ball Lightning Characteristics
Scientists at Amherst College and Aalto University have created, for the first time a three-dimensional skyrmion in a quantum gas. The skyrmion was predicted theoretically…