/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals in common metals like copper, gold, and aluminum—using nothing more than light and a clever technique. Their research, recently published in Nature Communications, could pave the way for advances in everything from smartphones to quantum computing. /news/2025-07-invisible-hidden-magnetic-clues-everyday.html Condensed Matter Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:00:01 EDT news671897093 Rabi-like splitting is one of the key concepts in modern quantum technology. Fully understanding it can help us advance our knowledge in quantum information processing. Assistant Professor Aakanksha Sud (Tohoku University), Dr. Kei Yamamoto (JAEA), Professor Shigemi Mizukami (Tohoku University), and collaborators discovered that Rabi-like splitting could be achieved using nonlinear coupling, which remarkably preserves the symmetries of the system. This result opens up various possibilities to deepen our understanding of nonlinear dynamics and coupling phenomena in artificial control. /news/2025-07-rabi-electrical-artificial-magnets.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:59:36 EDT news671878771 Superconductivity is an advantageous property observed in some materials, which entails the ability to conduct electricity without resistance below specific critical temperatures. One particularly fascinating phenomenon observed in some unconventional superconductors is so-called spin-triplet pairing. /news/2025-07-greatly-nonreciprocal-ktao-based-interface.html Condensed Matter Superconductivity Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:30:02 EDT news671711101 Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed new technology for uranium enrichment measurement and trace element detection, vital for nuclear nonproliferation and supporting the development and operation of next-generation nuclear reactors. /news/2025-07-key-advances.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:36:37 EDT news671715393 Spintronics are promising devices that work utilizing not only the charge of electrons, like conventional electronics, but also their spin (i.e., their intrinsic angular momentum). The development of fast and energy-efficient spintronic devices greatly depends on the identification of materials with a tunable spin-selective conductivity, which essentially means that engineers can control how electrons with different spin orientations move through these materials, ideally using external magnetic or electric fields. /news/2025-07-mechanism-tungsten-diselenide.html Condensed Matter Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:50:01 EDT news671449167 For decades, ferromagnetic materials have driven technologies like magnetic hard drives, magnetic random access memories and oscillators. But antiferromagnetic materials, if only they could be harnessed, hold out even greater promise: ultra-fast information transfer and communications at much higher frequencies—a "holy grail" for physicists. /news/2025-07-physicists-holy-grail-electron.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:39:57 EDT news671384392 An international research team led by Forschungszentrum Jülich has succeeded in visualizing magnetism inside solids with unprecedented precision. Using a newly developed method, the scientists were able to image the finest building blocks of magnetism directly at the atomic level. They have published their findings in the journal Nature Materials. /news/2025-07-visualization-atomic-scale-magnetism-imaging.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:26:03 EDT news671282762 Modern low-power solutions to computer memory rely heavily on the manipulation of the magnetic properties of materials. Understanding the influence of the chemical properties of these materials on their magnetization ability is of key importance in developing the field. /news/2025-07-magnetism-recharged-method-thin.html Condensed Matter Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:41:03 EDT news670772462 In a review just published in Nature Materials, researchers take aim at the oldest principle in electronics: Ohm's law. /news/2025-07-ohm-law-nonlinear-currents-emerge.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:09:03 EDT news670676942 Magnetic-superconducting hybrid systems are key to unlocking topological superconductivity, a state that could host Majorana modes with potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, creating stable, controllable interfaces between magnetic and superconducting materials remains a challenge. /news/2025-06-magnetic-chains-superconductors-heterostructure-advances.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:40:26 EDT news670160422 As we witness the detrimental effects of climate change, the need for a rapid shift to renewable energy is only becoming more urgent. One of the most efficient forms of renewable energy, solar power, is generated by solar cells, which are the building blocks of solar panels. These electronic devices use semiconductors to convert the energy of light into electricity, a process called the photovoltaic effect. /news/2025-06-artificial-heterostructure-tunable-photovoltaic-effect.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:00:02 EDT news669999536 Scientists from TU Delft (The Netherlands) have observed quantum spin currents in graphene for the first time without using magnetic fields. These currents are vital for spintronics, a faster and more energy-efficient alternative to electronics. This breakthrough, published in Nature Communications, marks an important step towards technologies like quantum computing and advanced memory devices. /news/2025-06-quantum-currents-graphene-external-magnetic.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:44:03 EDT news669984241 A research team led by Prof. Sheng Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes of Â鶹ÒùÔºical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. A.V. Kimel from Radboud University, has demonstrated that strong magnetic fields can effectively regulate laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization in a two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnet. /news/2025-06-scientists-uncover-magnetic-field-ultrafast.html Condensed Matter Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:05:03 EDT news669391501 In a new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities discovered surprising magnetic behavior in one of the thinnest metallic oxide materials ever made. This could pave the way for the next generation of faster and smarter spintronic and quantum computing devices. /news/2025-06-ultra-thin-metallic-oxide-reveals.html Condensed Matter Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:37:35 EDT news669296252 A team of researchers from Tohoku University, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), and Cambridge University have demonstrated a new way to make a unique material called tin sulfide (SnS), which can help build better and more compact electronic devices. Their findings are published in Nano Letters. /news/2025-06-simple-solution-yields-ultra-thin.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:34:44 EDT news669026079 A research team led by Prof. Shao Dingfu from the Hefei Institutes of Â鶹ÒùÔºical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has predicted a new class of antiferromagnetic materials with unique cross-chain structures, termed "X-type antiferromagnets." These materials exhibit sublattice-selective spin transport and unconventional magnetic dynamics, offering new possibilities for next-generation spintronic devices. /news/2025-06-class-antiferromagnets-enables-sublattice.html Condensed Matter Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:13:03 EDT news668941981 Researchers have determined how to use magnons—collective vibrations of the magnetic spins of atoms—for next-generation information technologies, including quantum technologies with magnetic systems. /news/2025-06-harnessing-magnons-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:59:38 EDT news668937572 The reliable manipulation of the speed at which light travels through objects could have valuable implications for the development of various advanced technologies, including high-speed communication systems and quantum information processing devices. Conventional methods for manipulating the speed of light, such as techniques leveraging so-called electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effects, work by utilizing quantum interference effects in a medium, which can make it transparent to light beams and slow the speed of light through it. /news/2025-06-nonreciprocal-cavity-magnonics-device.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:48:02 EDT news668424797 MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry "spintronic" memory chips. /news/2025-06-physicists-magnetism.html Condensed Matter Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:12:04 EDT news668333521 Multiferroics are materials that exhibit more than one ferroic property, typically ferroelectricity (i.e., a spontaneous electric polarization that can be reversed by electric fields) and ferromagnetism (i.e., the spontaneous magnetic ordering of electron spins). These materials have proved promising for the development of various new technologies, including spintronics, devices that exploit the spin of electrons to process and store information. /news/2025-06-iii-multiferroics-ferroelectricity-driven-magnetism.html Condensed Matter Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:30:02 EDT news668247511 Improving energy conversion efficiency in power electronics is vital for a sustainable society, with wide-bandgap semiconductors like GaN and SiC power devices offering advantages due to their high-frequency capabilities. However, energy losses in passive components at high frequencies hinder efficiency and miniaturization. This underscores the need for advanced soft magnetic materials with lower energy losses. /news/2025-05-quantum-eyes-energy-loss-diamond.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 23 May 2025 05:00:03 EDT news667146403 A research team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, has developed a simulation capable of predicting how tens of thousands of electrons move in materials in real time, or natural time rather than compute time. /news/2025-05-simulate-tens-thousands-electrons-real.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 21 May 2025 13:23:03 EDT news667052581 Ferromagnetic semiconductors (FMSs) combine the unique properties of semiconductors and magnetism, making them ideal candidates for developing spintronic devices that integrate both semiconductor and magnetic functionalities. However, one of the key challenges in FMSs has been achieving high Curie temperatures (TC) that enable their stable operation at room temperature. /news/2025-05-high-curie-temperature-ferromagnetic-semiconductor.html Condensed Matter Wed, 21 May 2025 12:09:03 EDT news667048141 Scientists studying a promising quantum material have stumbled upon a surprise: within its crystal structure, the material naturally forms one of the world's thinnest semiconductor junctions—a building block of most modern electronics. The junction is just 3.3 nanometers thick, about 25,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper. /news/2025-05-scientists-world-thinnest-semiconductor-junctions.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 20 May 2025 17:18:03 EDT news666980281 The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have now discovered that in certain materials it is not only preserved but can even be actively controlled. This is due to a property of the crystal structure called chirality, which also influences many other processes in nature. /news/2025-05-overlooked-electron-property-avenues-orbitronics.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 20 May 2025 12:19:03 EDT news666962341 Whether bismuth is part of a class of materials highly suitable for quantum computing and spintronics was a long‑standing issue. Kobe University research has now revealed that the true nature of bismuth was masked by its surface, and in doing so uncovered a new phenomenon relevant to all such materials. /news/2025-05-bismuth-mask-uncovered-implications-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 15 May 2025 16:00:03 EDT news666520200 In the future, quantum technology will become the standard for extremely fast computers. These kinds of machines will be important in everything from space technology to mineral exploration and the development of new medicines. /news/2025-05-naturally-clay-material-sought-properties.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 15 May 2025 09:55:04 EDT news666521701 Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed a new type of spintronic device that mimics how synapses work in the brain—offering a path to more energy-efficient and accurate artificial intelligence systems. /news/2025-05-based-memory-advance-brain-closer.html Condensed Matter Wed, 14 May 2025 10:20:33 EDT news666436826 The rules about magnetic order may need to be rewritten. Researchers have discovered that chromium selenide (Cr2Se3)—traditionally non-magnetic in bulk form—transforms into a magnetic material when reduced to atomically thin layers. This finding contradicts previous theoretical predictions, and opens new possibilities for spintronics applications. This could lead to faster, smaller, and more efficient electronic components for smartphones, data storage, and other essential technologies. /news/2025-05-magnetic-materials-atomically-thin.html Condensed Matter Thu, 08 May 2025 09:56:39 EDT news665916997 An international team has succeeded at BESSY II for the first time to elucidate how ultrafast spin-polarized current pulses can be characterized by measuring the ultrafast demagnetization in a magnetic layer system within the first hundreds of femtoseconds. /news/2025-05-ultrafast-polarized-current-pulses-magnetic.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Mon, 05 May 2025 11:50:03 EDT news665664601