Browse Physics

Ferromagnetic fluctuations drive superconductivity in UCoGe.

Helicoidal magnetic order induces a record high electrical polarization.

An NMR technique tracks the diffusion of water molecules to obtain micron-scale structural information about a porous material.

Observation of shallow water motion provides a remarkably good way to simulate the shock wave instabilities that occur in exploding stars.

Advances in a magneto-optical technique will allow researchers to better understand how to control spins in a metal with short optical pulses.

Cold-atom experiments tread into the land of two-dimensional superconductivity.

A technique from ion spectroscopy reveals the quantum nature of a mechanical system at low temperature.

New theoretical tools could take spintronic lasers to the next phase of their evolution.

Two new experiments on fluid turbulence have attained conditions needed to establish asymptotic scalings for turbulent transports of heat and angular momentum.

Theorists uncover a new way that interactions between highly excited atoms can affect the way they radiate.

Cloaking devices made of a composite of soft and hard materials can divert elastic vibrational waves around an object as though it wasn’t there.

By tracking the tiny displacements of a nanoparticle trapped in an optical tweezer, scientists are able to detect the faintest of acoustic waves.

A device that efficiently transfers single electrons from one grid point to another on the surface of liquid helium could provide a scalable way to make arrays of electron qubits.

Extremely high magnetic fields have been simulated by laser manipulation of atoms trapped in an optical lattice.

Simulating part of a perovskite heterostructure with a polarizable gel reveals the instrinsic properties of a two-dimensional electron liquid.

Adding a third molecule to an organic semiconductor laser can alter the balance of power among its energy levels and allow continuous rather than pulsed operation.

When placed inside a 3D electromagnetic cavity, a superconducting qubit can be made potentially more useful because of its large size and long coherence time.

Absorption spectroscopy limited only by quantum noise has been demonstrated over a broad frequency range using laser frequency combs.

Theorists propose a recipe for directly measuring the topological order in non-interacting cold atom systems.

A search for evidence of particles predicted by supersymmetry—a favored extension of the standard model—suggests that if the theory is correct, it may be more complicated to discover these particles than previously thought.