When an ordinary electrical conductor—such as a metal wire—is connected to a battery, the electrons in the conductor are ...

By analyzing images made of colored dots created by quantum simulators, ETH researchers have studied a special kind of ...

An international team of researchers has discovered that the quantum particles responsible for the vibrations of materials—which influence their stability and various other properties—can be ...

The study, which was published in the journal Nature ("Quantum spin nematic phase in a square-lattice iridate"), used the Advanced ... The word “nematic” describes a type of liquid crystal structure ...

From the Turkish Riviera to France’s Île de Ré, Annabelle Thorpe selects unspoilt and affordable places to stay for sun, sand ...

The US$665 million High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) outside Beijing puts China among only a handful of countries that have ...

A lattice is an arrangement of points in a repeating structure, like the corners of tiles in a bathroom or the atoms in a ...

The focus of the study was a bulk single crystal of a topological kagome metal ... built from atomic planes composed of Vanadium atoms arranged on a so-called kagome lattice—a pattern of interlaced ...