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14 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 20, 2026.
The Nature Materials paper from Vinod Menon's group is the first demonstration of microwave-to-optical transduction through magnon-exciton coupling. It does not yet move single quantum states, but it works in a bulk crystal that can be thinned to a few atomic layers.
In crystals a few atoms thick, researchers found that light-generated excitons don't just sit on top of the magnetism — they can sense the spin order and, under the right conditions, help control it.
By cooling ultra-pure crystals to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, a Vienna-led team stretched the lifetime of magnons to 18 microseconds — long enough to turn them into a 'quantum bus' linking hundreds of qubits.
By cooling ultra-pure crystals to a whisker above absolute zero, a Vienna-led team kept magnons alive for 18 microseconds — long enough, they say, to carry quantum information the way today's best qubits do.
University of Vienna researchers kept magnons alive for 18 microseconds — long enough to carry quantum information — by chilling ultrapure crystals to a whisker above absolute zero.
A Vienna-led team kept the tiny magnetic waves alive for 18 microseconds, showing their fragility was never a law of nature — just a matter of material purity.
Researchers led by the University of Vienna kept 'magnons' alive for 18 microseconds — long enough to carry quantum information — and found the only real limit is how pure the crystal is.
An Aalto University team coupled a time crystal made of magnons in superfluid helium-3 to a tiny mechanical oscillator, a step toward ultra-sensitive quantum sensors and better quantum memory.
Aalto University researchers coupled a perpetually ticking quantum state of helium-3 to a mechanical resonator, demonstrating in Nature Communications a route toward ultra-precise sensors and far longer-lived qubits.
Magnons in superfluid helium-3 self-organized into a state that ticked for 108 cycles before a tiny mechanical membrane was used to read it out and tune its frequency — closing the gap between a theoretical curiosity and a real quantum component.
Dresden team finds gentle magnetic wave stimulation can trigger previously unseen oscillation patterns in tiny magnetic structures, challenging fundamental physics assumptions.
Researchers found that gentle magnetic wave stimulation can generate exotic Floquet states in tiny magnetic structures, challenging existing physics assumptions.
Researchers trigger exotic Floquet oscillations using minimal energy in magnetic vortices, challenging existing physics assumptions and potentially linking different quantum technologies.
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.