Browse Physics

White noise in a nanoscale junction tells us how nonelectronic factors affect conduction.

New calculations confront the notion that adding impurities to one-dimensional solids called Luttinger liquids necessarily makes them insulators.

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy experiments show how missing carbon atoms affect graphene’s electronic and magnetic properties.

Nanoscale planar materials such as graphene could be twisted to fabricate tubular objects.

Nanopatterned surfaces could, according to calculations, provide a way to sort tiny particles by size.

Transport properties at the edges of topological states of matter may be more readily observed in graphene compared to other 2D systems.

A feedback mechanism in an evaporating liquid produces a variety of complex yet controlled patterns.

A two-dimensional trap takes advantage of the magnetic domain walls in a narrow wire to guide the thermal motion of magnetic particles.

Greater control of how a molecular wire is lifted off a metal surface offers a new tool for manipulating nanodevices.

In transistor circuits, preventing logical errors with physical fault tolerance is more efficient than correcting errors with a fault-tolerant architecture.

Mapping out the force between two molecules offers a way to test out a new, high-resolution force microscopy technique.

New measurements of silicon nanostructures cast doubt on the possibility that they support a giant piezoresistive effect.

A proposed nanoscale device that mediates interactions between qubits and light may become a building block for quantum information applications.

Understanding the role of interface effects will be essential for designing thin-film ferroelectrics on semiconductors.

Controlling defects on graphene that trap migrating metal atoms may lead to superior device fabrication.

A new compound is found to be the best yet fully organic realization of a one-dimensional ferromagnet.

Optical tuning of resonant NMR frequencies of nuclear spins in a single quantum dot achieves spatial resolution below the size of the dot.

Scanning-gate microscopy on a graphene quantum dot reveals localized states which influence transport properties.

Contrary to what is normally assumed, the polarization of sufficiently thin ferroelectrics can switch continuously, rather than through the formation of domains.

The sources of friction between two surfaces can be difficult to pin down.