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Quantum Study may Lead to New Generation of Logic and Memory Devices

When it comes to developing electronic devices, researchers generally search for ways to exploit and regulate the three rudimentary characteristics of electrons—their spin states, which result in magnetism; their charge; and the shapes of the indistinct clouds they create around the atoms’ nuclei, which are called orbitals.

18 May 2020

Researchers Observe Long-Lived Plasmons in Quasi 2D Crystals

Plasmons, which are wavelike, collective oscillations of electrons, are highly crucial for identifying the optical and electronic properties of metals.

15 May 2020

Topological Waves Could Provide New Way to Understand the Properties of Plasmas

Nearly 50 years ago, Brown University physicist Michael Kosterlitz and his colleagues used the mathematics of topology -- the study of how objects can be deformed by stretching or twisting but not tearing or breaking -- to explain puzzling phase changes in certain types of matter.

15 May 2020

Strong Gravitational Lenses Provide a Powerful Window into the Unseen Universe

Like crystal balls for the universe's deeper mysteries, galaxies and other massive space objects can serve as lenses to more distant objects and phenomena along the same path, bending light in revelatory ways.

15 May 2020

Researchers Observe 'Hot and Chaotic' Entanglement of Enormous Atoms

Quantum entanglement is a process by which microscopic objects like electrons or atoms lose their individuality to become better coordinated with each other.

15 May 2020

Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Could be Used for Quantum Bits Applications

With computers, laptops, and smartphones getting faster and smaller, the transistors within them to control electricity flow and information storage must also reduce in size and become faster. However, conventional transistors can shrink only to an extent.

14 May 2020