News tagged with hall effect

Exotic quantum states: A new research approach

(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretical physicists of the University of Innsbruck have formulated a new concept to engineer exotic, so-called topological states of matter in quantum mechanical many-body systems. They ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Current flowing along the edges of a promising quantum device is insensitive to its magnetic impurities

Conductors of electrical current, including copper, heat up and limit the ability to increase circuit densities. Unusual materials that exhibit the so-called ‘quantum spin Hall effect’, in which ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Redefining the kilogram and the ampere

New research using graphene presents the most precise measurements of the quantum Hall effect ever made, one of the key steps in the process to redefine two SI units.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Is graphene the best quantum resistance standard?

New research from NPL's Quantum Detection Group presents the most precise measurements of the quantum Hall effect ever made, using the two-dimensional material graphene.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Using magnetic fields to control newly identified state of matter could enable more efficient memory devices

Scientists in Japan have shown that the properties of a recently discovered state of matter—a chiral spin liquid—can be controlled by applying a magnetic field1, a concept that could be harnessed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Better 'photon loops' may be key to computer and physics advances

Surprisingly, transmitting information-rich photons thousands of miles through fiber-optic cable is far easier than reliably sending them just a few nanometers through a computer circuit. However, it may soon ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Charge it: Neutral atoms made to act like electrically charged particles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Completing the story they started by creating synthetic magnetic fields, scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NIST's new scanning probe microscope is supercool

The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly lower temperatures. Now, pushing the regime of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

When old is new again: Hall effect associated with electrons also occurs in non-charged particles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as electronics revolutionized computing and communications technology, spintronics is touted to follow suit. This relatively new field involves manipulating the flow of a magnetism-related ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Research gives insight into using graphene in electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- New findings from the laboratory of University of Illinois researcher Joe Lyding are providing valuable insight into graphene, a single two-dimensional layer of graphite with numerous electronic and mechanical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Graphene shows strange new behavior better suited for electronic devices

Regarded as a possible replacement for silicon-based semiconductors, graphene, a sheet of pure carbon, has been discovered to have an uncommon and astonishing property that might make it better matched for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Artificial magnetic fields for light could illuminate correlated quantum systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, the field of many-body physics involves the interactions and collective behavior of large numbers of particles. Scientists have made significant progress in exploring this field, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

European researchers make breakthrough in developing super-material graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 2

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1