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July 26, 2024

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July 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may enable efficient control of large semiconductor qubit arrays. The research group recently published their demonstration of hopping spins and ...

Paving the Way to Extremely Fast, Compact Computer Memory

July 17, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that the layered multiferroic material nickel iodide (NiI2) may be the best candidate yet for devices such as magnetic computer memory that are extremely fast and compact. Specifically, they found that NiI2 has greater ...

Optoelectronics Gain Spin Control from Chiral Perovskites and III-V Semiconductors

July 2, 2024 — A research effort has made advances that could enable a broader range of currently unimagined optoelectronic ...

Visual Explanations of Machine Learning Models to Estimate Charge States in Quantum Dots

June 27, 2024 — To form qubit states in semiconductor materials, it requires tuning for numerous parameters. But as the number of qubits increases, the amount of parameters also increases, thereby complicating this ...

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Scientists Probe Chilling Behavior of Promising Solid-State Cooling Material

July 1, 2024 — A research team has bridged a knowledge gap in atomic-scale heat motion. This new understanding holds promise for enhancing materials to advance an ...

Materials Research Revolutionized by a Small Change

June 27, 2024 — Scientists develop the next generation of highly efficient memory materials with atom-level ...

Researchers Discover New Flat Electronic Bands, Paving Way for Advanced Quantum Materials

June 25, 2024 — Scientists predict the existence of flat electronic bands at the Fermi level, a finding that could enable new forms of quantum computing and ...

New Approach to Identifying Altermagnetic Materials

June 14, 2024 — An international team has discovered a spectrum characteristic of an altermagnetic material with X-ray magnetic circular ...

Making Ferromagnets Ready for Ultra-Fast Communication and Computation Technology

June 13, 2024 — Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in how to enable and exploit ultra-fast spin behavior in ferromagnets. The research paves the way ...

New Technique Could Help Build Quantum Computers of the Future

June 11, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a new method that could enable the large-scale manufacturing of optical qubits. The advance could bring us closer to a scalable quantum ...

Observing Ultrafast Photoinduced Dynamics in a Halogen-Bonded Supramolecular System

June 4, 2024 — Researchers uncover how the halogen bond can be exploited to direct sequential dynamics in the multi-functional crystals, offering crucial insights ...

Shining a Light on Molecules: L-Shaped Metamaterials Can Control Light Direction

June 4, 2024 — Polarized light waves spin clockwise or counterclockwise as they travel, with one direction behaving differently than the other as it interacts with ...

Study Is Step Towards Energy-Efficient Quantum Computing in Magnets

May 29, 2024 — Researchers have managed to generate propagating spin waves at the nanoscale and discovered a novel pathway to modulate and amplify them. Their discovery could pave the way for the development of ...

More Than Spins: Exploring Uncharted Territory in Quantum Devices

May 24, 2024 — Many of today's quantum devices rely on collections of qubits, also called spins. These quantum bits have only two energy levels, the '0' and the '1'. However, spins in real devices also interact ...

Theory and Experiment Combine to Shine a New Light on Proton Spin

May 24, 2024 — Nuclear physicists have long been working to reveal how the proton gets its spin. Now, a new method that combines experimental data with state-of-the-art calculations has revealed a more detailed ...

New Crystal Production Method Could Enhance Quantum Computers and Electronics

May 21, 2024 — Scientists describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth -- a process that may aid the manufacturing of cheap flexible electronics an everyday ...

A Simple Quantum Internet With Significant Possibilities

May 15, 2024 — It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to ...

Experiment Opens Door for Millions of Qubits on One Chip

May 6, 2024 — Researchers have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor. The breakthrough opens up the possibility of integrating millions of ...

When Injecting Pure Spin Into Chiral Materials, Direction Matters

May 3, 2024 — The direction in which spin information is injected into chiral materials affects its ability to pass through them. These chiral 'gateways' could be used to design energy-efficient ...

Researchers Unlock Potential of 2D Magnetic Devices for Future Computing

May 1, 2024 — A research team has created an innovative method to control tiny magnetic states within ultrathin, two-dimensional van der Waals magnets -- a process akin to how flipping a light switch controls a ...

Lead-Vacancy Centers in Diamond as Building Blocks for Large-Scale Quantum Networks

Apr. 30, 2024 — A lead-vacancy (PbV) center in diamond has been developed as a quantum emitter for large-scale quantum networks by researchers. This innovative color center exhibits a sharp zero-phonon-line and ...

Unlocking Spin Current Secrets: A New Milestone in Spintronics

Apr. 23, 2024 — Using neutron scattering and voltage measurements, a group of researchers have discovered that a material's magnetic properties can predict spin current changes with temperature. The finding is ...

Researchers Discover Dual Topological Phases in an Intrinsic Monolayer Crystal

Apr. 2, 2024 — An international team working with single-atom thick crystals found TaIrTe4's transition between the two distinct topological states of insulation and conduction. The material exhibited zero ...

Quantum Interference Could Lead to Smaller, Faster, and More Energy-Efficient Transistors

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists made a single-molecule transistor using quantum interference to control electron flow. This new design offers high on/off ratio and stability, potentially leading to smaller, faster, and ...

Printed Polymer Allows Researchers to Explore Chirality and Spin Interactions at Room Temperature

Mar. 15, 2024 — A printable organic polymer that assembles into chiral structures when printed has enabled researchers to reliably measure the amount of charge produced in spin-to-charge conversion within a ...

How to Upcycle Low-Energy Light

Mar. 14, 2024 — To combine two low-energy photons into one high-energy photon efficiently, the energy must be able to hop freely, but not too quickly, between randomly oriented molecules of a solid. The discovery ...

Making Quantum Bits Fly

Mar. 6, 2024 — Physicists are developing a method that could enable the stable exchange of information in quantum computers. In the leading role: photons that make quantum bits ...

Shortcut to Success: Toward Fast and Robust Quantum Control Through Accelerating Adiabatic Passage

Mar. 5, 2024 — Researchers achieved the acceleration of adiabatic evolution of a single spin qubit in gate-defined quantum dots. After the pulse optimization to suppress quasistatic noises, the spin flip fidelity ...

AI-Enabled Atomic Robotic Probe to Advance Quantum Material Manufacturing

Mar. 1, 2024 — Scientists have pioneered a new methodology of fabricating carbon-based quantum materials at the atomic scale by integrating scanning probe microscopy techniques and deep neural networks. This ...

Diamonds Are a Chip's Best Friend

Feb. 27, 2024 — New technologies aim to produce high-purity synthetic crystals that become excellent semiconductors when doped with impurities as electron donors or acceptors of other elements. Researchers have now ...

Merons Realized in Synthetic Antiferromagnets

Feb. 27, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated the presence of merons in synthetic antiferromagnets and thus in materials that can be produced using standard deposition ...

Researchers Harness 2D Magnetic Materials for Energy-Efficient Computing

Feb. 22, 2024 — Researchers used ultrathin van der Waals materials to create an electron magnet that can be switched at room temperature. This type of magnet could be used to build magnetic processors or memories ...

It's the Spin That Makes the Difference

Feb. 20, 2024 — Biomolecules such as amino acids and sugars occur in two mirror-image forms -- in all living organisms, however, only one is ever found. Why this is the case is still unclear. Researchers have now ...

Altermagnetism Experimentally Demonstrated

Feb. 15, 2024 — Ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism have long been known to scientists as two classes of magnetic order of materials. Back in 2019, researchers postulated a third class of magnetism, called ...