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June 3, 2025

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Single-Atom Catalysts Change Spin State When Boosted by a Magnetic Field

May 30, 2025 — Researchers proposed a novel strategy for using a magnetic field to boost the efficiency of single-atom catalysts -- thus speeding up helpful reactions used for ammonia production and wastewater ...

New 2D Quantum Sensor Breakthrough Offers New Opportunities for Magnetic Field Detection

May 28, 2025 — Physicists have unveiled a breakthrough in quantum sensing by demonstrating a 2D material as a versatile platform for next-generation nanoscale vectorial ...

Listening to Electrons Talk

May 29, 2025 — Researchers present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin which has a much higher nuclear charge than any previous measurement. The experimental accuracy reached a level of 0.5 parts per ...

Achieving a Record-High Curie Temperature in Ferromagnetic Semiconductor

May 21, 2025 — Ferromagnetic semiconductors, which combine semiconductor and magnetic properties, are key to developing spin-based devices. Previously studied materials, such as (Ga,Mn)As, have Curie temperatures below room temperature, thereby limiting their ...

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Demonstration of Spin-Torque Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording

May 21, 2025 — Scientists have demonstrated a new recording principle that improves recording efficiency by 35% by combining spin torque with conventional heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). This advancement ...

Forgotten Property of the Electron

May 20, 2025 — The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...

Turning Non-Magnetic Materials Magnetic With Atomically Thin Films

May 8, 2025 — The rules about magnetic order may need to be rewritten. An international team of researchers found that it was possible to turn a non-magnetic material into a magnetic material by slicing it into ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 helimagnets. Their work could accelerate the ...

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 ...

Breakthrough in Opto-Magnetic Technology: 5-Fold Increase in Torque Efficiency

Feb. 6, 2025 — Researchers created platinum-mixed metallic magnetic nanofilms that are 5x more efficient -- the ultimate energy-saving ...

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. ...

A Spintronic View of the Effect of Chiral Molecules

Jan. 30, 2025 — Researchers verified the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, i.e., the influence of chiral molecules on spin, using spintronic analytical ...

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 ...

Discovery of New Class of Particles Could Take Quantum Mechanics One Step Further

Jan. 8, 2025 — In a study, physicists now observed a class of quantum particles called fractional excitons, which behave in unexpected ways and could significantly expand scientists' understanding of the ...

High-Quality Nanodiamonds for Bioimaging and Quantum Sensing Applications

Dec. 23, 2024 — Researchers have developed nanodiamond sensors with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, offering exceptional brightness and spin properties for quantum sensing and bioimaging. These nanodiamonds ...

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 ...

New Discovery by Scientists Redefines Magnetism

Dec. 17, 2024 — Step into a world so tiny, it defies imagination -- the nanoscale. Picture a single strand of hair, now shrink it a million times. You've arrived. Here, atoms and molecules are the architects of ...

Researchers Uncover Strong Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Spin Liquids

Dec. 12, 2024 — Theoretical physicists along with an experimental team have found evidence of a quantum spin liquid in a material known as pyrochlore cerium stannate. They achieved this by combining state-of-the-art ...

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 ...

A Pathway Towards New Quantum Devices: Electrically Defined Quantum Dots in Zinc Oxide

Nov. 26, 2024 — Creating and controlling quantum dots via electrical methods, is likely to lead to new frontiers in the quest to develop stable and efficient qubits. Exploring how zinc oxide can be used in ...

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 ...

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 ...