A cryogenic microscope reveals the atomic-scale processes that disrupt the charge-ordered state in a material as the temperature rises. Read More »
A previously neglected spin–orbit-coupling effect could be strong enough to engender unconventional superconductivity in certain materials. Read More »
A new framework that embeds electrons in a surrounding bath captures nonlocal correlation effects that are relevant to metals, semiconductors, and correlated insulators. Read More »
Researchers have made electrons crystallize into an anisotropic structure, which could lead to new insights into quantum many-body systems. Read More »
Spin-polarized electrons can suppress the experimental signature of the quantum many-body phenomenon known as the Kondo effect. Read More »
Researchers explore the question of whether a Kondo cloud—a phenomenon common in conventional metals—can also occur in superconductors. Read More »
A method that enables long-range interactions between fermions on a lattice allows atomic quantum simulations of exotic quantum many-body phenomena. Read More »
A novel, high-resolution fluorescence imaging technique reveals a pattern, known as a Pauli crystal, that can emerge in a cloud of trapped, noninteracting fermions. Read More »
New experiments with doped graphene take the two-dimensional material beyond its “Van Hove singularity” to regions that may host exotic states of matter. Read More »
A one-dimensional chain of hydrogen atoms displays a wide variety of many-body effects—suggesting that the chain can be a useful model system for condensed-matter physics. Read More »
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