A team of scientists has identified a new physical mechanism that could help explain one of the most persistent mysteries in ...

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 ...

Quantum computers, devices that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could tackle some tasks that are ...

Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have definitively resolved a two-decade-long controversy regarding the direction of electron spin on the surface of gold. Using a ...

Theoretical physicists along with an experimental team have found evidence of a quantum spin liquid in a material known as pyrochlore cerium stannate. They achieved this by combining state-of-the-art ...

Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these ...

Electron spin can create differences between mirror-image molecules, a potential explanation for why life favors one ...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have mapped how magnetic domains form and evolve in ultrathin van der Waals magnets, a key step toward next‑generation spintronic devices. Using cryogenic ...

At the smallest scales of matter, nature behaves in ways that feel almost counterintuitive. Individual particles follow simple rules, but when they interact together, entirely new behaviors can emerge ...