Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Deep within every piece of magnetic material, electrons dance to the invisible tune of quantum mechanics. Their spins, akin to tiny atomic tops, dictate the magnetic…
Category: Quantum Physics
Study leverages chiral phonons for transformative quantum effect
Chiral phonons excited by the circularly polarized terahertz light pulses generate ultrafast magnetization in cerium fluoride. Fluorine ions (red, fuchsia) are set into motion by circularly polarized terahertz light pulses…
Acquitting a physicist accused of ‘obscurantism’
This is the third page of Bohm’s letter to Einstein dated 14 November 1954 containing a paragraph on the infinite structure of reality. Courtesy of the Birkbeck College Archives. Credit:…
Physicists trap electrons in a 3D crystal for the first time
MIT physicists have trapped electrons in a pure crystal, marking the first achievement of an electronic flat band in a three-dimensional material. The rare electronic state is thanks to a…
The controllable splitting of a single Cooper pair in a hybrid quantum dot system
An abstract diagram of two types of Cooper pair splitters. The conventional Cooper pair splitter (including the faded parts of the diagram) consists of a superconducting contact separated from two…
Exploring spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
A spin microemulsion phase found in simulations of Rashba spin-orbit coupled, Bose-Einstein condensates. Colored regions correspond to dense regions of atoms with the same spin state. Credit: Ethan McGarrigle (doi:…
