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Physicists realize time-varying strong coupling in a magnonic system
Time-varying systems, materials with properties that change over time, have opened new possibilities for the experimental manipulation of waves. Contrarily to static systems, which exhibit the same properties over time, these ...
New perspectives on light-matter interaction: How virtual charges influence material responses
Understanding what happens inside a material when it is hit by ultrashort light pulses is one of the great challenges of matter physics and modern photonics. A new study published in Nature Photonics and led by Politecnico ...
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Sep 26, 2025
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Coexisting magnetic states in 2D material promise major energy savings in memory chips
It is anticipated that within just a few decades, the surging volume of digital data will constitute one of the world's largest energy consumers. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have made a ...
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Sep 26, 2025
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How diamond fails under extreme electrical fields
A research team from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the failure mechanism of diamond under extreme electrical fields through in situ experiments and molecular dynamics simulations. The study, published ...
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Sep 26, 2025
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Ferrimagnet spin waves act like bosonic semiconductors, study finds
Ferrimagnets are a special type of magnet where different atoms' magnetic moments partially cancel each other out, creating a rich internal structure. They are widely used in technologies from magneto-optical devices to spin-based ...
Shining a light on dark valleytronics: First direct observation of dark excitons in atomically thin materials
In a world-first, researchers from the Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have directly observed the evolution of the elusive dark excitons in atomically thin materials, ...
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Sep 25, 2025
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A new approach to magnify wave functions when imaging interacting ultracold atoms
The precise imaging of many-body systems, which are comprised of many interacting particles, can help to validate theoretical models and better understand how individual particles in these systems influence each other. Ultracold ...
Topology reveals the hidden rules of amorphous materials: Softness arises from hierarchical structures
Why do glass and other amorphous materials deform more easily in some regions than in others? A research team from the University of Osaka, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Okayama ...
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Sep 25, 2025
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Doping triggers tunable charge density wave in 2D antiferromagnetic semiconductor
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have observed a doping-tunable charge density wave (CDW) in a single-layer semiconductor, Chromium(III) selenide (Cr2Se3), extending the CDW phenomenon from metals ...
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Sep 24, 2025
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Evidence of a spin-liquid state emerges in pressurized oxygen
Oxygen, the colorless and odorless gas that is essential to the survival of humans and other living organisms, is estimated to make up around 21% of Earth's atmosphere. While the primary properties of oxygen are now well ...
Engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics
Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physical limits ...
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Sep 23, 2025
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Ultrafast magnetization switching: Moving boundary challenges previous all-optical switching models
The field of ultrafast magnetism explores how flashes of light can manipulate a material's magnetization in trillionths of a second. In the process called all-optical switching (AOS), a single laser pulse of several femtoseconds ...
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Sep 23, 2025
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New tool steers AI models to create materials with exotic quantum properties
The artificial intelligence models that turn text into images are also useful for generating new materials. Over the last few years, generative materials models from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta have drawn on ...
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Sep 22, 2025
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Rare-earth tritellurides reveal a hidden ferroaxial order of electronic origin
The discovery of "hidden orders," organization patterns in materials that cannot be detected using conventional measurement tools, can yield valuable insight, which can in turn support the design of new materials with advantageous ...
Hybridization of interlayer excitons in bilayer semiconductor hints at many-body state
Excitons, bound states between an electron (i.e., a negatively charged particle) and a hole (i.e., the absence of an electron) in materials, are a key focus of condensed matter physics studies. These bound states can give ...
Researchers are first to image directional atomic vibrations
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron microscopy method that has enabled the first-ever imaging of vibrations, or phonons, in specific ...
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Sep 19, 2025
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Quantum scars boost electron transport and drive the development of microchips
Quantum physics often reveals phenomena that defy common sense. A new theory of quantum scarring deepens our understanding of the connection between the quantum world and classical mechanics, sheds light on earlier findings ...
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Sep 19, 2025
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How you make it matters: Spintronics device performance tied to atomic interface changes
Spintronics devices will be key to realizing faster and more energy-efficient computers. To give us a better understanding of how to make them, a Kobe University team now showed how different manufacturing techniques influence ...
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Sep 18, 2025
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Advanced AI links atomic structure to quantum tech
A research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a new method to uncover the atomic origins of unusual material behavior. This approach uses Bayesian deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence that ...
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Sep 18, 2025
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Conquering disorder: Modeling a solid with liquid-like ion movement
Copper selenide (Cu₂Se) attracts scientific interest for its thermoelectric ability to convert heat into electricity, but a lack of atomic-level understanding has limited its practical applications for decades.
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Sep 17, 2025
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