When mobile charge carriers, also known as itinerant electrons, interact with the strong exchange magnetic fields associated ...

Researchers in Finland have experimentally realized a long-predicted class of quantum material: a two-dimensional topological ...

Quantum computers need special materials called topological superconductors—but they’ve been notoriously difficult to create. Researchers have now shown they can trigger this exotic state by subtly ...

An international team of researchers has synthesized a carbon chain molecule with a never-before-seen electronic twist and ...

When most people hear "polymer," they think of plastics. In our group, polymerization is a way to line up identical molecules like beads on a string and let quantum mechanics take over. Put magnetic ...

Artistic illustration of a topological exciton insulator: Excitons condense in the bulk of the material, forming a collective insulating phase, while topologically protected edge modes propagate ...

Momentum is building for quantum computing and some observers say that a usable, fault-tolerant quantum system could appear in the next few years. We have written ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Particle line explosion A quantum state of matter has appeared in a material where physicists thought it would be impossible, ...

Rydberg atoms are atoms with one or more outer electrons excited to very high energy levels, which interact very strongly ...

Quantum physics tells us that particles behave like waves that therefore their position is space is unknown. Yet in many situations, it still works remarkably well to think of particles in a classical ...