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A New Candidate Material for Quantum Spin Liquids

Nov. 6, 2020 — Using a unique material, scientists have been able to design and study an unusual state of matter, the Quantum Spin Liquid. The work has significant implications for future technologies, from quantum ...

Breakthrough Quantum-Dot Transistors Create a Flexible Alternative to Conventional Electronics

Oct. 29, 2020 — Researchers have created fundamental electronic building blocks out of tiny structures known as quantum dots and used them to assemble functional ...

Odds Are Good for Unique 2D Compound

Oct. 26, 2020 — Engineers make 2D materials for valleytronics, a platform for information processing and storage that relies on the manipulation of electrons' positions in energetic ...

Reviewing Multiferroics for Future, Low-Energy Data Storage

Oct. 22, 2020 — Big data and exponential demands for computations are driving an unsustainable rise in global ICT energy use. A new study reviews the use of the 'multiferroic' material bismuth-ferrite, which allows ...

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Lower Current Leads to Highly Efficient Memory

Nov. 30, 2020 — Researchers are a step closer to realizing a new kind of memory that works according to the principles of spintronics which is analogous to, but different from, electronics. Their unique gallium ...

Direct Visualization of Quantum Dots Reveals Shape of Quantum Wave Function

Nov. 23, 2020 — Trapping and controlling electrons in bilayer graphene quantum dots yields a promising platform for quantum information technologies. Researchers have now achieved the first direct visualization of ...

Staying Ahead of the Curve With 3D Curved Graphene

Nov. 20, 2020 — A team of researchers has amplified 3D graphene's electrical properties by controlling its ...

Quantum Algorithm Breakthrough

Nov. 16, 2020 — Physicists report the development of a quantum algorithm with the potential to study a class of many-electron quantums system using quantum ...

New Family of Quasiparticles in Graphene-Based Materials

Nov. 13, 2020 — After years of dedicated research a group of pioneering scientists have again revealed a phenomenon that is 'radically different from textbook physics' and this work has led to the discovery and ...

Antiferromagnetic Material's Giant Stride Towards Application

Nov. 12, 2020 — The quest for high throughput intelligent computing paradigms - for big data and artificial intelligence - and the ever-increasing volume of digital information has led to an intensified demand for ...

Germanium Telluride's Hidden Properties at the Nanoscale Revealed

Nov. 6, 2020 — Germanium Telluride is an interesting candidate material for spintronic devices. In a comprehensive study at BESSY II, a research group has now revealed how the spin texture switches by ferroelectric ...

Building a Quantum Network One Node at a Time

Nov. 4, 2020 — Researchers create 'optically active spin arrays' within a device that could serve as a node for exchanging photons with distant ...

On-Surface Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons Could Advance Quantum Devices

Oct. 26, 2020 — Scientists have synthesized graphene nanoribbons -- ultrathin strips of carbon atoms -- on a titanium dioxide surface using an atomically precise method that removes a barrier for custom-designed ...

Temperature Evolution of Impurities in a Quantum Gas

Oct. 14, 2020 — A new theoretical study advances our understanding of the role of thermodynamics in the 'quantum impurity' problem, which studies the behavior of deliberately introduced atoms (ie, 'impurities') that ...

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Spintronics Advances: Controlling Magnetization Direction of Magnetite at Room Temperature

Nov. 18, 2020 — Spintronics -- based on the principles of electron charge and magnetic spin -- goes beyond the limits of conventional electronics. However, spintronic devices are yet to see advances, because ...

Connecting Two Classes of Unconventional Superconductors

Nov. 11, 2020 — The understanding of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most challenging and fascinating tasks of solid-state physics. Different classes of unconventional superconductors share that ...

Stacking and Twisting Graphene Unlocks a Rare Form of Magnetism

Oct. 12, 2020 — A team of researchers has discovered that a variety of exotic electronic states, including a rare form of magnetism, can arise in a three-layer graphene ...

Diamonds Are a Quantum Scientist's Best Friend

Oct. 7, 2020 — New research details the phenomenon of what is called 'triplet superconductivity' in diamond. Triplet superconductivity occurs when electrons move in a composite spin state rather than as a ...

Experiments With Twisted 2D Materials Catch Electrons Behaving Collectively

Oct. 6, 2020 — A team reports that carefully constructed stacks of graphene -- a 2D form of carbon -- can exhibit highly correlated electron properties. The team also found evidence that this type of collective ...

Spin Clean-Up Method Brings Practical Quantum Computers Closer to Reality

Sep. 25, 2020 — Researchers create a quantum algorithm that removes spin contaminants while making chemical calculations on quantum computers. This allows for predictions of electronic and molecular behavior with ...

New Possibilities for Working With Quantum Information

Sep. 24, 2020 — The spin of particles can be manipulated by a magnetic field. This principle is the basic idea behind magnetic resonance imaging as used in hospitals. A surprising effect has now been discovered in ...

New Design Principles for Spin-Based Quantum Materials

Sep. 18, 2020 — A new design criteria for enhancing the spin lifetime of a class of quantum materials could support Internet of Things devices and other resource-intensive ...

Self-Induced Ultrafast Demagnetization Limits the Amount of Light Diffracted from Magnetic Samples at Soft X-Ray Energies

Sep. 18, 2020 — Free electron X-ray lasers deliver intense ultrashort pulses of x-rays, which can be used to image nanometer-scale objects in a single shot. When the x-ray wavelength is tuned to an electronic ...