Physical Science & Technology

(From left to right) Magnon gas particles bounce around in many directions inside a magnetic nanostructure. When rapidly cooled, they all spontaneously jump into the same state, forming a Bose-Einstein...

Researchers have demonstrated the world's first metasurface laser that produces "super-chiral light": light with ultra-high angular momentum. The light from this laser can be used as a type of "optical...

Photo: Chun Hung (Joshua) Lui Nanoscale technology has greatly improved our daily lives with products such as computers, phones, and solar cells.  To develop the next-generation nanotechnology, new classes of materials need...

By revisiting a simple type of laser, scientists have discovered a way to exponentially increase the amount of energy released in incredibly short periods of time, with potential applications in...

Physicists in Regensburg and Marburg have tailored the mutual interaction of electrons in an atomically thin solid by simply covering it with a crystal featuring hand-picked lattice dynamics. In a...

Success in controlling perovskite ions' composition paves the way for device applications Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (*1) have received much attention as potential next generation solar cells and as materials for...

Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by colleagues from Saratov State University and Michigan Technological University, have demonstrated new methods for controlling spin waves in nanostructured bismuth...

Printable two-dimensional superconducting monolayers Figure (a) shows samples of NbSe2 atomic models and merlion statues fabricated using the exfoliated flakes and 3D printing technology. Figure (b) shows the photograph of...

Photo: An artist's interpretation of ghost imaging. In this research technique, scientists split an x-ray beam (represented by the thick pink line) into two streams of entangled photons (thinner pink...

Atomic-scale image of two interacting donors in silicon. Courtesy: CQC2T Australian researchers have located the ‘sweet spot’ for positioning qubits in silicon to scale up atom-based quantum processors. Researchers from...