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November 20, 2024

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New Route to 'Quantum Spin Liquid' Materials Discovered

Nov. 15, 2024 — Scientists have produced a new route to materials with complex 'disordered' magnetic properties at the quantum level. The material, based on a framework of ruthenium, fulfils the requirements of the 'Kitaev quantum spin liquid state' -- an elusive ...

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 ultra-low-power AI ...

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 ferromagnetic layer and an organic semiconductor ...

Get a Grip: The Best Thumb Position for Disc Launch Speed and Spin Rate

Oct. 22, 2024 — Disc golf is a sport growing in popularity, but there hasn't been much research into the best techniques -- until now. Researchers and disc golf enthusiasts have determined the best thumb position on a disc to maximize angular and translational ...

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Molecule 'Handedness' Determines the Strength of a Coupling Between Nuclear Spins

Oct. 9, 2024 — Chirality -- a geometric property that allows molecules to exist in two distinct forms that are chemically identical but are 3D mirror images of each ...

Researchers Create Orientation-Independent Magnetic Field-Sensing Nanotube Spin Qubits

Oct. 2, 2024 — A team that has developed patent-pending one-dimensional boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) containing spin qubits, or spin defects. The BNNTs are more ...

Thermal Effects in Spintronics Systematically Assessed for First Time

Sep. 24, 2024 — Spintronics -- devices that use microscopic magnetism in conjunction with electric current -- could lead to computing technology as fast as conventional electronics but much more energy efficient. As ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 been notoriously ...

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 ...

Langbeinites Show Talents as 3D Quantum Spin Liquids

Aug. 23, 2024 — A 3D quantum spin liquid has been discovered in the vicinity of a member of the langbeinite family. The material's specific crystalline structure and the resulting magnetic interactions induce an ...

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 ...

Novel Magnetic Field Integration Enhances Green Hydrogen Peroxide Production

Nov. 15, 2024 — A sprinkling of magnetic nanoparticles is just enough to power up catalysts, so they can make hydrogen peroxide production more ...

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 ...

Physicists Throw World's Smallest Disco Party

Aug. 14, 2024 — A new milestone has been set for levitated optomechanics as a group of scientists observed the Berry phase of electron spins in nano-sized diamonds levitated in ...

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 ...

'Miracle' Filter Turns Store-Bought LEDs Into Spintronic Devices

July 25, 2024 — Scientists transformed existing optoelectronic devices into ones that can control electron spin at room temperature, without a ferromagnet or magnetic field. Researchers replaced the electrodes of ...

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 ...

New Battery-Free Technology to Power Electronic Devices Using Ambient Radiofrequency Signals

July 25, 2024 — Researchers demonstrated a novel technique to efficiently convert ambient low-power radiofrequency signals into DC power. This 'rectifier' technology can be easily integrated into energy ...

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 ...

Materials Research Revolutionized by a Small Change

June 27, 2024 — Scientists develop the next generation of highly efficient memory materials with atom-level ...

Researchers Discover New Flat Electronic Bands, Paving Way for Advanced Quantum Materials

June 25, 2024 — Scientists predict the existence of flat electronic bands at the Fermi level, a finding that could enable new forms of quantum computing and electronic ...

New Approach to Identifying Altermagnetic Materials

June 14, 2024 — An international team has discovered a spectrum characteristic of an altermagnetic material with X-ray magnetic circular ...

Making Ferromagnets Ready for Ultra-Fast Communication and Computation Technology

June 13, 2024 — Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in how to enable and exploit ultra-fast spin behavior in ferromagnets. The research paves the way for ultra-high frequency ...

New Technique Could Help Build Quantum Computers of the Future

June 11, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a new method that could enable the large-scale manufacturing of optical qubits. The advance could bring us closer to a scalable quantum ...

Observing Ultrafast Photoinduced Dynamics in a Halogen-Bonded Supramolecular System

June 4, 2024 — Researchers uncover how the halogen bond can be exploited to direct sequential dynamics in the multi-functional crystals, offering crucial insights for developing ultrafast-response times for ...

Shining a Light on Molecules: L-Shaped Metamaterials Can Control Light Direction

June 4, 2024 — Polarized light waves spin clockwise or counterclockwise as they travel, with one direction behaving differently than the other as it interacts with molecules. This directionality, called chirality ...

Study Is Step Towards Energy-Efficient Quantum Computing in Magnets

May 29, 2024 — Researchers have managed to generate propagating spin waves at the nanoscale and discovered a novel pathway to modulate and amplify them. Their discovery could pave the way for the development of ...

Theory and Experiment Combine to Shine a New Light on Proton Spin

May 24, 2024 — Nuclear physicists have long been working to reveal how the proton gets its spin. Now, a new method that combines experimental data with state-of-the-art calculations has revealed a more detailed ...