Research is actively underway to develop a "dream memory" that can reduce heat generation in smartphones and laptops while ...

RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special kind of magnet. This finding could help to realize future low-energy ...

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only under specific conditions that researchers have struggled for decades to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers show the Kondo effect can create magnetism when quantum spin size increases. (CREDIT: Caltech) At the smallest scales ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a surprising mathematical connection between two areas of condensed ...

Engineers have discovered an unexpected link between two very different realms of physics: the behavior of electrons in ...

MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry "spintronic" memory chips. The new magnetic state is a mash-up ...

Physicists have for the first time observed light drifting sideways in discrete, quantized steps, reproducing a quantum Hall effect that was previously seen only in electrons confined to ultra-thin ...

Engineers found a surprising link between graphene electrons and magnetic spin waves in magnonic crystals, offering new insights for RF technology and both fields.

Researchers at the University of Basel and the ETH in Zurich have succeeded in changing the polarity of a special ferromagnet using a laser beam. In the future, this method could be used to create ...

Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize–winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same ...

The electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials both have strong potential for technological applications. Researchers have long assumed that they are distinct phenomena, but ...