Browse Physics

A careful reassessment of zinc oxide nanolasers finds that the electrons and holes in the material are not bound together as others have suggested.

An ingenious experiment has probed the collective response of the quantum Hall stripe phase.

In transistor circuits, preventing logical errors with physical fault tolerance is more efficient than correcting errors with a fault-tolerant architecture.

New measurements of silicon nanostructures cast doubt on the possibility that they support a giant piezoresistive effect.

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

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

A theoretical analysis of recent experiments suggests that a key feature of a topological quantum computer—the unusual statistics of quasiparticles in the quantum Hall effect—may finally have been observed.

Measurements of the heat transport at the edges of two-dimensional electron systems appear to provide explanations about the quantum Hall state that have not been forthcoming via charge transport experiments.

A few hundred atoms of silicon can form a novel not-quite-crystalline solid, theorists predict.

Physicists have made the first direct measurements of the force exerted by a single atom in a solid.