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May 22, 2025

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World's First Petahertz-Speed Phototransistor in Ambient Conditions

May 19, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously -- a feat that redefines the potential limits of ...

BESSY II: Insight Into Ultrafast Spin Processes With Femtoslicing

May 5, 2025 — An international team has succeeded at BESSY II to elucidate how ultrafast spin-polarized current pulses can be characterized by measuring the ultrafast demagnetization in a magnetic layer system within the first hundreds of femtoseconds. The ...

Researchers Demonstrate New Class of Quantum Materials That Are Both Metallic and One-Dimensional

Apr. 17, 2025 — A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study comes at a ...

An Elegant Method for the Detection of Single Spins Using Photovoltage

Apr. 15, 2025 — Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these colour centeres. However, the spin states have to be ...

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Physicists Uncover Electronic Interactions Mediated Via Spin Waves

Apr. 3, 2025 — Physicists have made a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding could open the door to future technologies and advanced applications such as ...

Scientists Merge Two 'Impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that ...

Quantum Spin Model Made from Nanographene Molecules

Mar. 14, 2025 — Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

Reading Magnetic States Faster -- In Far Infrared

Mar. 13, 2025 — With today's data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow. Initial experiments have already shown a promising new strategy: Magnetic ...

Single-Qubit Sensing Puts New Spin on Quantum Materials Discovery

Mar. 5, 2025 — Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials. Knowledge obtained by these new ...

Scientists Unravel the Spiraling Secrets of Magnetic Materials for Next-Generation Electronics

Mar. 4, 2025 — Engineers have developed a new computational approach to accurately model and predict the properties of a class of magnetic molecules called chiral ...

New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine

Feb. 26, 2025 — A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer also works at room temperature. The researchers have shown that information can be transmitted using magnetic wave motion in complex ...

Magnetic Switch Traps Quantum Information Carriers in One Dimension

Feb. 19, 2025 — A quantum 'miracle material' could support magnetic switching, a team of researchers has ...

New Spin on Quantum Liquids: Quasi-1D Dynamics in Molecular Spin Systems

Feb. 5, 2025 — Quantum spin liquids are fascinating states of matter where magnetic spins stay disordered, defying the usual rules of magnetism. Scientists have made an exciting discovery about one such material. ...

New Avenues in Quantum Research: Supramolecular Qubit Candidates Detected

Jan. 28, 2025 — Researchers were able to demonstrate for the first time that non-covalent bonds between spin centers are also capable of producing quartet states through spin mixing. Supramolecular chemistry is thus ...

This Metaphorical Cat Is Both Dead and Alive -- And It Will Help Quantum Engineers Detect Computing Errors

Jan. 14, 2025 — Engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations and they have important ...

Revealing the 'True Colors' of a Single-Atom Layer of Metal Alloys

Jan. 10, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that the direction of the spin-polarized current can be restricted to only one direction in a single-atom layer of a thallium-lead alloys when irradiated at room ...

Novel Graphene Ribbons Poised to Advance Quantum Technologies

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have recently achieved a significant breakthrough in the development of next-generation carbon-based quantum materials, opening new horizons for advancements in quantum electronics. The ...

Physics: Current Generated by the Quantum Hall Effect Has Additional Magnetic Properties

Dec. 17, 2024 — The quantum Hall effect, a fundamental effect in quantum mechanics, not only generates an electric but also a magnetic current. It arises from the motion of electrons on an orbit around the nuclei of ...

Faster Organic Phosphorescence for Better Display Tech

Dec. 9, 2024 — Screens for TVs, smartphones or other displays could be made with a new kind of organic LED material. The material maintains sharp color and contrast while replacing the heavy metal with a new hybrid ...

Nanoscale Transistors Could Enable More Efficient Electronics

Nov. 4, 2024 — Nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials can operate more efficiently than silicon-based devices, leveraging quantum mechanical properties to potentially enable ...

Spin Current Observations from Organic Semiconductor Side

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers have succeeded in observing the effects of spin current transfer and spin current generation from the non-magnetic side of a device, using a multilayer device consisting of a ...

Major Development Successes in Diamond Spin Photon Quantum Computers

Oct. 28, 2024 — Lower cooling requirements, longer operating times, lower error rates: Quantum computers based on spin photons and diamond promise significant advantages over competing quantum computing ...

BESSY II: Heterostructures for Spintronics

Sep. 20, 2024 — Spintronic devices work with spin textures caused by quantum-physical interactions. Scientists have now studied graphene-cobalt-iridium heterostructures at BESSY II. The results show how two desired ...

Quantum Researchers Cause Controlled 'Wobble' in the Nucleus of a Single Atom

Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers have been able to initiate a controlled movement in the very heart of an atom. They caused the atomic nucleus to interact with one of the electrons in the outermost shells of the atom. ...

Researchers Advance New Class of Quantum Critical Metal That Could Advance Electronic Devices

Sep. 6, 2024 — A new study has unveiled a new class of quantum critical metal, shedding light on the intricate interactions of electrons within quantum materials. The research explores the effects of Kondo coupling ...

Physicists Ease Path to Entanglement for Quantum Sensing

Aug. 26, 2024 — A quantum mechanical trick called 'spin squeezing' is widely recognized to hold promise for supercharging the capabilities of the world's most precise quantum sensors, but it's ...

Unconventional Interface Superconductor Could Benefit Quantum Computing

Aug. 23, 2024 — A multi-institutional team of scientists has developed a new superconductor material that could potentially be used in quantum computing and be a candidate 'topological ...

Advancing Modular Quantum Information Processing

Aug. 15, 2024 — A team of physicists envisions a modular system for scaling quantum processors with a flexible way of linking qubits over long distances to enable them to work in concert to perform quantum ...

X-Ray Imagery of Vibrating Diamond Opens Avenues for Quantum Sensing

Aug. 7, 2024 — Scientists at three research institutions capture the pulsing motion of atoms in diamond, uncovering the relationship between the diamond's strain and the behavior of the quantum information ...

Spin Qubits Go Trampolining

July 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may enable efficient control of large semiconductor qubit arrays. The research group recently ...

Paving the Way to Extremely Fast, Compact Computer Memory

July 17, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that the layered multiferroic material nickel iodide (NiI2) may be the best candidate yet for devices such as magnetic computer memory that are extremely fast and ...

Optoelectronics Gain Spin Control from Chiral Perovskites and III-V Semiconductors

July 2, 2024 — A research effort has made advances that could enable a broader range of currently unimagined optoelectronic ...

Scientists Probe Chilling Behavior of Promising Solid-State Cooling Material

July 1, 2024 — A research team has bridged a knowledge gap in atomic-scale heat motion. This new understanding holds promise for enhancing materials to advance an emerging technology called solid-state ...

Visual Explanations of Machine Learning Models to Estimate Charge States in Quantum Dots

June 27, 2024 — To form qubit states in semiconductor materials, it requires tuning for numerous parameters. But as the number of qubits increases, the amount of parameters also increases, thereby complicating this ...