Condensed Matter & Superconductors

13+ hour, 21+ min ago   (243+ words) The approach addresses a fabrication problem that becomes particularly important with superconductors. Conventional wet and dry etching can introduce rough Superconductors Can Now Be Patterned Without Etching What if you could build microscopic patterns without carving the material? Researchers have…...

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1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (599+ words) Chemical bonds are usually treated as the fixed scaffolding of a material, the framework that determines how atoms sit relative to one another and how electrons move through the resulting structure. Yet in certain classes of matter, the bonds between…...

2+ day, 34+ min ago   (86+ words) A pinch of graphene may be all it takes to make liquid crystals dramatically more useful in the infrared. Researchers in Japan have shown that dispersing tiny flakes of the one-atom-thick carbon material into a common nematic liquid crystal boosts…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (270+ words) This peak doesn’t simply indicate a change in density; it signals “an inflection point in the equation of state,” effectively delineating a boundary between underdoped and overdoped metallic regimes at large interactions. Further investigation utilizing lattice modulation spectroscopy provided complementary…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1212+ words) Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (55+ words) Topological photonics has spent the past decade borrowing one of the most powerful ideas in modern condensed-matter physics: the notion that certain states of light can be protected from imperfections in much the same way that conducting edge states are…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (668+ words) A long-predicted quirk of quantum materials has finally been caught in action. In an elegant set of experiments described in Nature Physics, researchers report the first demonstration of the Hall effect in a trion fluid, a charged three-particle state that…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (873+ words) In a result that could reshape how chemists think about catalysis, researchers have now achieved something once thought beyond the reach of experimental science: watching, at the nanometer scale, how light-driven collective electron oscillations known as plasmons help break apart…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (514+ words) The properties of a material depend not only on how its atoms are arranged, but also on how its electrons are arranged and move. So what happens inside a material when light changes its properties? Previous studies have often examined…...