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General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jan 10, 2019

Common frame for analyzing complex systems in physics and economics

Scientists often need to make sense of complex systems without knowing the important parameters or even without access to all the information. A collaboration of network theorists has reported a common frame for addressing ...

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jan 2, 2019

Quantum chemistry on quantum computers

Quantum computing and quantum information processing technology have attracted attention in recently emerging fields. Among many important and fundamental issues in science, solving the Schroedinger equation (SE) of atoms ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 21, 2018

One of the world's fastest cameras captures motion of electrons

During the conversion of light into electricity, such as in solar cells, a large part of the input light energy is lost. This is due to the behaviour of electrons inside of materials. If light hits a material, it stimulates ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Dec 10, 2018

Topological matters: Toward a new kind of transistor

Billions of tiny transistors supply the processing power in modern smartphones, controlling the flow of electrons with rapid on-and-off switching.

Nanophysics Nov 30, 2018

Artificial magnetic field produces exotic behavior in graphene sheets

A simple sheet of graphene has noteworthy properties due to a quantum phenomenon in its electron structure called Dirac cones. The system becomes even more interesting if it comprises two superimposed graphene sheets, and ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Nov 19, 2018

'Magnetic topological insulator' makes its own magnetic field

A team of U.S. and Korean physicists has found the first evidence of a two-dimensional material that can become a magnetic topological insulator even when it is not placed in a magnetic field.

Nanophysics Nov 19, 2018

Scientists create atomic scale, 2-D electronic kagome lattice

Scientists from the University of Wollongong (UOW), working with colleagues at China's Beihang University, Nankai University, and Institute of Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics at Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully created an atomic scale, ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Oct 29, 2018

Shedding light on Weyl fermions

Researchers from the Theory Department of the MPSD in Hamburg and North Carolina State University in the US have demonstrated that the long-sought magnetic Weyl semi-metallic state can be induced by ultrafast laser pulses ...

Nanophysics Oct 17, 2018

Exploring new spintronics device functionalities in graphene heterostructures

Graphene Flagship researchers have shown in a paper published in Science Advances how heterostructures built from graphene and topological insulators have strong, proximity induced spin-orbit coupling which can form the basis ...

Nanophysics Oct 11, 2018

New half-light half-matter particles may hold the key to a computing revolution

Scientists have discovered new particles that could lie at the heart of a future technological revolution based on photonic circuitry, leading to superfast, light-based computing.

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