Browse Physics

A new material with strong magnetism and spin-phonon coupling could show multiferroicity at technologically relevant temperatures.

Automatically generated potentials allow one to overlook electrons while accurately modeling the potential energy surface of atoms.

Behavior particular to quantum critical metals is, surprisingly, found in a class of insulators.

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 reveal the effect of dimensionality in a prototypical charge-density-wave material.

Structurally soft materials—like shape memory alloys—are well suited to making epitaxial films.

When crystal formation is purely entropy driven, as is the case for superstructures of nanoparticles with hard-sphere interactions, new simulations that can run at finite temperature are needed.

A semi-automated method that incorporates physically realistic assumptions from the start, dramatically improves the efficiency of first principles calculations for describing complex materials.

CuO in thin-film form could be a prototype material for exploring magnetism that is similar to what is found in high-temperature superconductors.

Following diamond and silicon, germanium is the third elemental semiconductor to host superconductivity at ambient pressure.

The ability to hole-dope Bi2Se3 is an important step toward exploring the thermoelectric properties of this material.

Neutron scattering measurements indicate that intrinsic localized modes are found in thermal equilibrium in NaI, a simple ionic crystal.

The addition of tellurium helps to grow large single crystals of an iron-based superconductor.

Diamond is famous for its exceptional hardness and structural stability. Researchers are exploring different ways to push these mechanical properties beyond their current limits.