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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

Super-efficient Transistor Material Predicted

(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by condensed-matter theorists at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory points to a material that could one day be used to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (36) | comments 10

Quantum Twist: Electrons Mimic Presence of Magnetic Field

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists led by a Princeton University group recently discovered that on the surface of certain materials collective arrangements of electrons move in ways that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 1




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Manipulating the texture of magnetism

Knowing how to control the combined magnetic properties of interacting electrons will provide the basis to develop an important tool for advancing spintronics: a technology that aims to harness these properties ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Enhanced vision training boosts batters, research shows

Members of the University of Cincinnati (UC) baseball team significantly improved their batting performance with the help of an enhanced vision training program, according to research published in a scientific research journal.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Atoms dressed with light show new interactions, could reveal way to observe enigmatic particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have for the first time engineered and detected the presence of high angular momentum collisions between atoms at temperatures close to absolute ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Topological matter in optical lattices

Atoms trapped by laser light have become excellent platforms for simulating solid state systems. These systems are also a playground for exploring quantum matter and even uncovering new phenomena not yet seen ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Team controls thermal fluctuations with spin current

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the University of Muenster, and West Virginia University have demonstrated control of magnetic thermal fluctuations ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Oxford spin-out is energy-saver for business

The latest spin-out from Oxford University, Pilio Limited, provides a cost-effective online tool enabling small and medium businesses to monitor and manage their energy usage, potentially saving up to 40 per ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lab helps engineers improve wind power

A laser in Iowa State University's Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory scanned layer after layer of the flexible fiberglass fabric used to make wind turbine blades.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Apple 'genius' Steve Jobs dies from cancer

Suddenly, the next version of the iPhone doesn't seem so important. It's time to mourn Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley maestro who always seemed to hit the right note as he transformed Apple Inc. into technology's ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 47

Materials scientists develop topological insulator with a switch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Stanford and SLAC have found a potential way to harness the amazing properties of topological insulators – materials that conduct electricity only along their surfaces – ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicists move one step closer to quantum computer

Rice University physicists have created a tiny "electron superhighway" that could one day be useful for building a quantum computer, a new type of computer that will use quantum particles in place of the digital ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 24 | with audio podcast


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