Browse Physics

Helicoidal magnetic order induces a record high electrical polarization.

Ferromagnetic fluctuations drive superconductivity in UCoGe.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Coupling a silicon nitride membrane resonator with a gas of ultracold atoms offers a novel approach to controlling mechanical systems at the quantum level.