Topic
24 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 2, 2026.
A Cornell-led team found the states by accident while chasing twisted graphene, in a device where two three-layer sheets relaxed into a rhombohedral stack.
A Nature study from German teams films light-driven quantum jumps that skip the space in between, like an elevator going from floor 3 to floor 20.
Normally banned colors of light appear when the driving laser is in a squeezed quantum state, offering a new probe of quantum noise at attosecond speed.
The Nature Nanotechnology study finds the magnetic state persists after the voltage is removed, hinting at rewritable quantum materials.
Osaka physicists made protons 'surf' a moving electric wave, and used a neural network with 99.2% precision to find the rare high-energy signals in millions of detector images.
The Erlangen, Munich, Technion and Central Florida team reports in Nature Physics that it can set the size and direction of the current by adjusting the polarization and timing of the two beams, the first time anyone has controlled electrons within a light-made Floquet state rather than just observing it.
The National University of Singapore team used 0.14-terahertz radiation, whose photons carry just 0.6 millielectronvolts, to warm the charge carriers and nothing else. The trick separates two effects that every conventional measurement blurs together.
A second graphene sheet less than a nanometer away drained the interactions between electrons. The superconducting transition fell by more than a factor of ten, which is not what phonon theory predicts.
Niobium diselenide is a promising two-dimensional superconductor that starts corroding the instant it meets oxygen. Researchers solved it by growing the crystal inside a gap less than a nanometer wide — under the protective layer instead of beneath it.
Cambridge physicists used quantum-accurate simulations to show that water squeezed into nanoscale gaps isn't inherently more reactive; crushing internal pressures explain the effect that has baffled labs for a decade.
Cambridge-led researchers find that confined water isn't inherently more reactive — crushing internal pressure and the chemistry of the surrounding surface explain the long-mysterious effect.
Physicists in India and Japan watched electrons abandon their particle-like behavior and move as a near-perfect 'Dirac fluid,' breaking the Wiedemann-Franz law by more than 200 times.
Scientists at India's IISc found that electrons in single-layer graphene conduct heat and electricity in opposite directions near the Dirac point, shattering the Wiedemann-Franz Law.
Scientists used aerosol jet printing to create flexible artificial neurons from semiconductor nanomaterials that, when placed on living mouse brain tissue, generated electrical signals realistic enough to activate real neurons — a major step toward next-generation brain implants.
Electrons in graphene flow like a frictionless liquid, violating the Wiedemann-Franz law by more than 200 times and revealing exotic quantum behavior.
Scientists observe exotic quantum state where electrical and thermal conductivity move in opposite directions, contradicting the established Wiedemann-Franz law by more than 200 times.
Breakthrough observation reveals electrons behaving as nearly frictionless fluid while violating the Wiedemann-Franz law by over 200 times.
Scientists observe exotic quantum state where electrical and thermal conduction separate by 200-fold, opening new frontiers in quantum technology.
Scientists observe exotic quantum state where electrons move collectively, breaking the Wiedemann-Franz law by more than 200 times.
Indian Institute of Science researchers found that at graphene's 'Dirac point,' electrons stop behaving as individual particles and instead flow collectively like a near-perfect fluid — decoupling electrical and thermal conductivity in a way classical physics says is impossible.
Using ultrafast laser pulses, physicists captured graphene's electrons reshaping into entirely new quantum states in real time — confirming a two-decade-old theoretical prediction and opening a path to reconfigurable quantum devices.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that specially designed magnetic films follow the same mathematical rules as graphene's electrons — with transformative implications for wireless communications technology.
By etching a hexagonal pattern of holes into a magnetic film, researchers at Illinois made magnetic spin waves obey the same mathematical rules as graphene's famously massless electrons — a finding published in Physical Review X that could shrink microwave devices by orders of magnitude.
A University of Illinois team etched hexagonal hole patterns into thin magnetic films and found that spin waves inside follow the same massless-particle equations as electrons in graphene, enabling a new class of micrometer-scale microwave devices that could transform 6G hardware and quantum computing control circuits.