In science and engineering, it's unusual for innovation to come in one fell swoop. It's more often a painstaking plod through which the extraordinary gradually becomes ordinary.
Superconductors (materials that conduct electricity without resistance) have fascinated physicists for more than a century. While conventional superconductors are well understood, a new class of materials known as topological ...
Quantum metals are metals where quantum effects鈥攂ehaviors that normally only matter at atomic scales鈥攂ecome powerful enough to control the metal's macroscopic electrical properties.
The artificial intelligence models that turn text into images are also useful for generating new materials. Over the last few years, generative materials models from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta have drawn on ...
Researchers at Rice University and collaborating institutions have discovered direct evidence of active flat electronic bands in a kagome superconductor. This breakthrough could pave the way for new methods to design quantum ...
A joint research team from Japan has observed "heavy fermions," electrons with dramatically enhanced mass, exhibiting quantum entanglement governed by the Planckian time鈥攖he fundamental unit of time in quantum mechanics. ...
Researchers are creating new moir茅 materials at the nanometer scale using advanced DNA nanotechnology. DNA moir茅 superlattices form when two periodic DNA lattices are overlaid with a slight rotational twist or positional ...
Twisted materials鈥攌nown as moir茅 structures鈥攈ave revolutionized modern physics, emerging as today's "alchemy" by creating entirely new phases of matter through simple geometric manipulation. The term "moir茅" may sound ...
Electricity can be easily converted into heat鈥攅very electric cooker does it. But is the opposite also possible? Can heat be converted into electricity鈥攄irectly, without a steam turbine or similar detours?
An international team led by Innsbruck quantum physicist Peter Zoller, together with the US company QuEra Computing, has directly observed a gauge field theory similar to models from particle physics in a two-dimensional ...
