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.