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Study Shows Magnetic Order can be Created in a Two-Dimensional Chessboard Lattice

A research goal, for a short period, focused on attaining magnetic order in low-dimensional systems comprising of one or two dimensions. In a recent study featured in the journal Nature Communications, Uppsala researchers demonstrate that magnetic order can be produced in a two-dimensional chessboard lattice made up of organometallic molecules that are only one atomic layer in thickness.

23 May 2017

Researchers Create Wafer-Thin Magnetic Materials for Use in Future Quantum Technologies

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic structures are believed to be a promising material for new types of data storage, as the magnetic properties of individual molecular building blocks can be examined and altered.

23 May 2017

Lithium Deposited on Tokamaks Walls Affect the Performance of Lithium Tokamak Experiment

A team of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have discovered that lithium compounds enhance plasma performance in fusion devices in the same manner as that performed by pure lithium.

22 May 2017

Researchers Study Self-Synchronization of Quantum Objects

Fascinating enough, apparently independent pendulum clocks can function together and tick in synchrony at the same time. Occurring often in nature as well as engineering, the “self-organized synchronization” phenomenon is one of the important research areas of Marc Timme and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.

22 May 2017

Researchers Explore Ways of Developing Quantum Bits by Using Graphene

A number of projects are exploring ways to develop quantum bits or qubits as a result of the ongoing race to manufacture a quantum computer. Qubits are stable, that is, they are not greatly affected by environmental changes. This usually needs highly nonlinear, non-dissipative elements that have the potential to function at extremely low temperatures.

19 May 2017

IBM Scientists Achieve Important Milestone in Creating Sophisticated Quantum Devices

IBM scientists have achieved an important milestone toward creating sophisticated quantum devices that could become a key component of quantum computers. As detailed in the peer-review journal Nano Letters, the scientists have shot an electron through a III-V semiconductor nanowire integrated on silicon for the first time.

19 May 2017

Researchers Experimentally Observe Destruction of a Quantum Monopole

For the first time, Researchers from Amherst College and Aalto University have carried out experimental observations of the dynamics of isolated monopoles that exist in quantum matter.

18 May 2017

UBC Physicists Explore the Reason Behind Accelerating Expansion of the Universe

One of nature’s puzzles—what causes the accelerating expansion of the universe?—may have been solved by UBC physicists.

16 May 2017

Physicist Receives ERC Grant to Develop New Methods in Quantum Field Theory

Johannes Henn, Professor of Mathematical Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), is to receive one of the most richly endowed grants by the European Research Council to develop new methods of calculation in the field of theoretical physics.

16 May 2017

Source of Superconductivity Unearthed by Measuring Quantum Critical Point Entropy Change

Physicists from Germany and the United States have acquired new evidence related to the probable source of high-temperature superconductivity and similar phenomena. They achieved this by accurately quantifying the entropy of a cerium copper gold alloy (that has perplexing electronic characteristics) by cooling it close to absolute zero.

15 May 2017