Particles Exhibit Their Quantum Nature Close to Absolute Zero
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…
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Scientists Observed Conventional Superconductivity at Minus 70 Degrees Celsius
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…
New Insights Into Why Some Crystals Jump, While Others Crumble
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…
Researchers Demonstrate Superconductivity without Cooling
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 Develop a Nanolamp with a Lightning-Fast Switch
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…
Researchers Investigated the Charge Transport Perovskite Solar Cells
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…
Atomic Scale Imaging of Magnetic Structures
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…
Solid-State Physicists Consider the ‘Anticrystal’
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…
Molecular Photons Interfaced with Alkali Atoms for the First Time
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…
Researchers Perform Logic Operation and Error Correction in a Quantum Register
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…
A Growing Understanding of the Conditions Required for Superconductivity
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…
New Insights into How Superconducting Materials Interact with Magnetic Ones
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…
Evidence of Elusive Majorana Fermions Raises Possibilities for Quantum Computing
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…