Light controlled current transport by charged atoms, now demonstrated for the first time, makes new applications conceivable. Light makes some materials conductive in a previously…
The term “superfluid quasicrystal” sounds like something a comic-book villain might use to carry out his dastardly plans. In reality, it’s a new form of…
Experiments based on atoms in a shaken artificial crystal made of light offer novel insight into the physics of quantum many-body systems — which might…
A team of researchers has developed a quantum sensor that makes it possible to use nuclear magnetic resonance scanning to investigate the structure of individual…
A newly published study from the Max Planck Institute reveals what would happen if an electric current no longer flowed, but trickled instead. What would…
New research from the Max Planck Institute and the Johannes Gutenberg University reveals that hydrogen sulfide loses its electrical resistance under high pressure at minus…
A team of researchers has discovered the force that makes the organometallic compound palladium hexafluoroacetylacetonate jump. This thermosalient effect could potentially be applied in artificial…
New research details how scientists used an infrared laser pulse to briefly modify the structure of a high-temperature superconductor, removing its electrical resistance at room…
Scientists have developed a light source which converts an electrical voltage pulse into a light pulse by means of a single molecule, possibly serving as…
New insights into the working mechanism of perovskite-based solar cells could help these solar cells play a prominent role among the renewable energy carriers in…
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research use atomic scale imaging of magnetic structures to study new aspects of high-temperature superconductivity. Superconductors…
Physicists show that the anticrystal, a theoretical solid that is completely disordered, should undergird our understanding of most materials. For the last century, the concept…
In a newly published study, scientists describe the optical interaction between Fourier-limited photons from a single organic molecule and atomic alkali vapors. It may be…
An international team of physicists has discovered a way to control the quantum system of a diamond with a small number of nitrogen impurities. Computers…
Two newly published studies improve scientists’ understanding of the conditions required for superconductivity and how it can be achieved at realistic temperatures. Even physics can…
An international team of physicists have gained new insights into how superconducting materials interact with magnetic ones, discovering charge density waves in ceramic yttrium and…
It’s been reported that researchers in the Leo Kouwenhoven group, based out of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, might have beaten several…