Browse Physics

A new vanadium compound exhibits the telltale features of a quantum spin liquid—a material that resists magnetic ordering down to absolute zero.

Experiments demonstrate the possibility of engineering stable, nanometer-scale magnetic structures in thin magnetic films by firing laser pulses at them.

A magnetometer based on laser measurements of atomic energy levels can detect a magnetic field one hundred billion times smaller than the Earth’s.

The excitation spectrum of artificial spin ices can be used to identify defects that behave as magnetic monopoles.

Surface spectroscopy shows that a material long known as a Kondo insulator also exhibits the metallic surface states of a topological insulator.

New research has identified a rare form of magnetism at the interface between two different oxide compounds.

Theorists consider the experimental signature of a quantum spin ice.

Advances in magnetic resonance spectroscopy could remedy the problems caused by movement or unstable fields during a scan.

Researchers have confined and manipulated electron spin waves in hydrogen gas.

A well-known model for studying magnetic phase transitions may provide a path to developing a quantum theory of gravity.

The experimental artifacts known to disrupt magnetic force microscopy measurements of small spin samples can be identified and removed.

To measure atomic-scale magnetic fields, researchers propose using a molecular preamplifier to pass information about the field to an ultrasensitive atomic defect in diamond.

Researchers discover a subtle proximity effect at the interface between a normal metal and an antiferromagnetic insulator.

Magnetism may propel liquids in a pump without moving parts.

Magnetic ordering in a low-dimensional spin system cannot be generally excluded in the presence of spin-orbit interactions.

To complement normal NMR spectroscopy performed in high magnetic fields, researchers are developing a technique that works in nearly zero fields.

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

Applying x-ray diffraction microscopy to magnetic systems yields simultaneous spatial and temporal information.

A slightly denser version of a transition-metal oxide, with the same chemical composition, has radically different magnetic properties.

A strontium-based metal oxide with radioactive technetium exhibits the highest antiferromagnetic ordering temperature in a material without a third-row transition metal.