Superconductivity is an advantageous physical phenomenon observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance ...

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Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in and out of existence that can interact with matter, giving rise to new, ...

In a paper published in the journal Nature, the result of a French collaboration, a group of French researchers demonstrates for the first time that, under certain conditions, graphene can emit light ...

An appropriately designed periodic lattice in graphene can cause plasmonic modes, absorbing a specific THz frequency band, minimizing transmission. A suitable Fabry-Perot cavity, on the other hand, ...

Known as a Wigner crystal, this phase of electrons has characteristic shapes and behaviors researchers thought they understood well. In this run of experiments, the researchers twisted stacks of ...

The research by the Manchester scientists, published in Nature Communications, reveals an unexpected ‘in-plane staging’ process during lithium intercalation in bilayer graphene, potentially ...

Graphene, a thin sheet of carbon atoms, is similar to a metal in that its electrons move freely in the plane of the sheet, forming a dense cloud that usually prevents other particles and ions from ...

A new hybrid layered perovskite featuring elusive spontaneous defect ordering has been found, report scientists at Tokyo Tech. By introducing specific concentrations of thiocyanate ions into FAPbI3 ...

Physicists at Princeton University successfully visualize the 90-year-old Wigner Crystal theory. This could pave the way for future quantum discoveries.

The Wigner crystal lattice. Image: Yen-Chen Tsui and team, Princeton University Wigner theorized that this quantum phase of electrons would occur due to the particles’ mutual repulsion, not in ...