Browse Physics

The phase coherence time of electrons in certain nanostructures may diverge at very low temperatures.

Optical spectroscopy may be able to detect the narrowest carbon nanotube that water can fill.

Microwave illumination of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas reveals quantum magneto-oscillations in both absorption coefficient and dc resistance.

A single-molecule junction on a silver surface exhibits orders-of-magnitude variation in conductance.

A device based on photonic crystals exhibits strong optomechanical coupling.

LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces grown by different methods all show a metal-insulator transition, but the observed interfacial electric field strength is not consistent with a widely studied model.

Calculations indicate that germanium telluride nanoplatelets above a certain size should exhibit a reversible toroidal spin ground state, control over which could be useful for computing applications.

Under certain conditions, nanowires that form when a metal is deposited on a surface are primarily made of the substrate.

A proposal for how to design a superconducting qubit solves the problem of decoherence caused by randomly charged impurities.

First-principles calculations explore how magnetic interactions impede the formation of atomically thin wires.

Rotating electric fields can power the flow of water along a nanochannel.

Fullerenes enclosing a metallic complex are found to form an ordered array with preferred alignment on a copper surface.

A molecular network on a copper surface serves as a template for growing nanowires of uniform size from a range of metals.

First-principles calculations predict that a thin layer of VO2 sandwiched between TiO2 layers has electronic states that exhibit both linear and quadratic dispersion.

A critical thickness below which thin films of the metallic ferromagnet SrRuO3 become insulating and lose their ferromagnetic properties has been determined.

Coupling two electromechanical oscillators can extend the range over which each individual device is practically useful.

Optical measurements in electron gases at low temperatures and high magnetic fields show the electron spins are, as predicted, polarized, but that this state is surprisingly delicate.

Molecular dynamics simulations unveil an example of dynamical symmetry breaking at the nanoscale.

An advance in magnetic resonance force microscopy enhances its chemical sensitivity and opens up the possibility of identifying different organic substances at the nanoscale.

Measurements of how out-of-equilibrium electrons lose energy along a carbon nanotube reveal that they do not significantly scatter over several microns.