Recent Articles
Materials Found to Be Surprisingly Transparent to Orbital Currents
Orbital currents can efficiently flow through a variety of materials—a promising result for future orbitronics devices. Read More »
Light Could Drive Cooling Cycle in Ferroelectric Materials
Ultraviolet photons induce potassium niobate to behave like a potent solid-state refrigerant, according to new calculations. Read More »
Placing a Full Protein Library Under Pressure
A new technique allows researchers to study how a bacterium’s entire set of proteins changes its shape under high pressures—shedding light on adaptation mechanisms of deep-sea organisms. Read More »
Ultrafast Lasers Induce Spin Currents Directly
Researchers use ultrashort laser pulses to trigger a spin-aligned electron flow on the few-femtosecond timescale—opening up a possible path toward faster spintronic devices. Read More »
A New Nonlinearity for Superconducting Circuits
Researchers have isolated a high-order term in the behavior of a Josephson junction, which could lead to longer-lived superconducting qubits. Read More »
Preparing Entangled States Efficiently
A new method for preparing certain states on a quantum computer is predicted to take the same time regardless of the system size. Read More »
Dark Matter Search in Gravitational-Wave Data
An analysis of gravitational data from the LIGO detector sets new limits on a wave-like form of dark matter called scalar-field dark matter. Read More »
Treating Epidemics as Feedback Loops
A new model of epidemics describes infections as part of a feedback loop—an approach that might one day help optimize interventions such as social distancing and lockdowns. Read More »
New Quantum Effect in Textbook Chemistry Law
The observation of quantum modifications to a well-known chemical law could lead to performance improvements for quantum information storage. Read More »
