News tagged with spin states
Spin lasers in the fast lane: New concept for ultrafast lasers developed
Electrical engineers in Bochum, Germany, have succeeded in developing a new concept for ultrafast semiconductor lasers. The researchers make clever use of the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, called spin, to successfully ...
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Physicists to develop new way of electronic computing
The University of California, Riverside has received a $1.85 million grant to develop a new way of computing that is beyond the scope of conventional silicon electronics.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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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 ...
Sep 30, 2011 |
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New study proves that much-sought exotic quantum state of matter can exist
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world economy is becoming ever more reliant on high tech electronics such as computers featuring fingernail-sized microprocessors crammed with billions of transistors. For progress to ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Magnetic control of anomalous hall effect induced by spin chirality
Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo and RIKEN announced that researchers from both institutes succeeded in the magnetic control of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) induced by spin chirality. Details were ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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A remarkable step toward next-generation energy-conservation
Tohoku University, Osaka University and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) announced that they succeeded in directly observing electron spins in a topological insulator. The work has been published in Physical Review Le ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Ultrathin copper-oxide layers behave like quantum spin liquid
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic studies of ultrathin slabs of copper-oxide materials reveal that at very low temperatures, the thinnest, isolated layers lose their long-range magnetic order and instead behave like ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Quantum mapmakers complete first voyage through spin liquid
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Oxford University have mapped a state of matter called 'quantum spin liquid', whose existence was proposed in the 1970s but which has only been observed recently.
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Getting to know the strong force, one of the four fundamental forces of the universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- In new work, high-energy physicists have observed two long-sought quantum states in the bottomonium family of sub-atomic particles. The result will help researchers better understand one of ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Physicists cross hurdle in quantum manipulation of matter
Finding ways to control matter at the level of single atoms and electrons fascinates many scientists and engineers because the ability to manipulate single charges and single magnetic moments (spins) may help ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
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New MRI signaling method could picture disease metabolism in action
Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer.
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Mar 26, 2009 |
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