Physicists have produced an electronic structure known as a flat band in a three-dimensional material for the first time. The flat band was created...

A protocol for testing the quantum nature of large objects – that, in principle, could work for objects of any mass – has been...

The road to Bose–Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases was paved with ideas that shouldn’t have worked, but did, as Chad Orzel explains in...

There are many physicists working on materials and every year we look forward to writing about some of the most exciting research in this...

Dec 16, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Materials with enhanced thermal conductivity are critical for the development of advanced devices to support applications in communications, clean energy...

IntroductionAfter a year of trial and error, Liyang Chen had managed to whittle down a metallic wire into a microscopic strand half the width...

Min, H., Borghi, G., Polini, M. & MacDonald, A. H. Pseudospin magnetism in graphene. Phys. Rev. B 77, 041407 (2008).Article  ...

Home > Press > Shedding light on unique conduction mechanisms in a new type of perovskite oxide The top figure shows the snapshot...

Nov 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany, have shown...

IntroductionIn 1956, David Pines formulated a phantom. He predicted the existence of seas of electric ripples that could neutralize each other, rendering the overall...

Following allegations of scientific misconduct in high-temperature superconductivity, Caitlin Duffy says that if trust in science is to be maintained, researchers...