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Superconducting microwires detect high-energy particles

Evidence for a superconducting gap emerges in hydrogen sulphides

Finding confirms that electron pairing in these high-temperature, high-pressure superconductors is mediated by phonons

Quantum twisting microscope measures phasons in cryogenic graphene

Cool tool creates and characterizes exotic phonons in twisted graphene

Axion quasiparticle appears in a topological antiferromagnet

New finding could aid the search for fundamental axions, say physicists

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Artist's image showing robot arms controlling a group of spins (represented by an array of red arrows all pointing up) that are sandwiched between two layers of CrS material (represented by ball-and-stick models). A blue lightning-like line in the middle represents electric field control

Layer-spintronics makes its debut

Superconducting device delivers ultrafast changes in magnetic field

Martina Havenith, Philipp Schienbein and Gerhard Schwaab in their lab. They're wearing casual clothing and standing next to a piece of equipment

Supercritical water reveals its secrets

Strange metals get their strangeness from quantum entanglement

Physicists use the concept of quantum Fisher information to explain poor electrical conductivity in these unusual materials

Sliding droplets generate electrical charge as they stick and unstick

Newly observed depinning phenomenon could aid the development of more efficient energy harvesters and help keep next-generation fuel-handling systems safe

Superfluid phase spotted in molecular hydrogen for the first time

New finding confirms a prediction made more than half a century ago

Earth’s core could contain lots of primordial helium, experiments suggest

Noble gas forms compounds with iron at extremely high pressures

Quantum-inspired technique simulates turbulence with high speed

Simulations could take just a few hours rather than several days

Memory of previous contacts affects static electricity on materials

Important clue found in the mystery of inconsistent triboelectric series

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Joint APS meeting brings together the physics community

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Inverse design configures magnon-based signal processor

Notch filter and demultiplexer created in thin magnetic film using current-loop array

Artist's image showing blue and red spikes (representing the quasiparticles) emerging from two parallel dark grey honeycomb-patterned surfaces (representing carbon) and pairing up

New class of quasiparticle appears in bilayer graphene

"Fractional excitons" form in 2D carbon structure at high magnetic fields

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Quantum simulators deliver surprising insights into magnetic phase transitions

Independent studies used atomic and superconducting qubits

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Anomalous Hall crystal is made from twisted graphene

Topological electronic crystal emerges from moiré pattern

Photo of Nuh Gedik and colleagues Tianchuang Luo and Alexander von Hoegen, pictured in their lab. Gedik is pointing at a piece of laboratory equipment while the other two look on. An electrical cable in the foreground snakes down into the camera's view.

Terahertz light produces a metastable magnetic state in an antiferromagnet

New phase could be used to make faster and more compact memory and processing devices

Two images. The one at left is a close-up of an electronic device similar to the one used in the experiment, showing light orange circuit elements against a grey background. The second image is a photo taken from underneath a dilution refrigerator

New candidate emerges for a universal quantum electrical standard

Approach based on the quantum anomalous Hall effect does away with the need for applied magnetic fields

Six-colour image with arrows overlayed on each colour showing the direction of the altermagnetic ordering within that region of the MnTe sample. At two points within the sample, all six colours meet, and the arrows indicate the existence of a vortex.

Altermagnets imaged at the nanoscale

Study provides insights into the nature of this recently-discovered class of magnetism

Photo of a chip made of the non-crystalline topological semimetal niobium phosphide, which appears as a light-orange square held in a person's gloved hands

Very thin films of a novel semimetal conduct electricity better than copper

Result in niobium phosphide contradicts typical metal behaviour

Theoretical model of the electronic band structure of ZrSiS, which displays linear dispersion along one axis and quadratic dispersion along another, characteristic of semi-Dirac dispersion

Quasiparticles become massless – but only when they’re moving in the right direction

Spectroscopy measurements reveal "smoking gun" signature of semi-Dirac fermions in a topological semimetal

The physics of ice cream: food scientist Douglas Goff talks about this remarkable material

Our podcast guest is a leading expert on frozen desserts

An image of several dozen squishy silicone rings laid out side by side and viewed from the top. The bright orange and green rings resemble cells and are mostly touching each other, but there are some gaps between rings.

Squishy silicone rings shine a spotlight on fluid-solid transition

Model shows how highly deformable particles, grains and cells respond to external forces

Physicists close in on fractionally-charged electron mystery in graphene

Topological flat band may account for fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect recently observed in pentalayer moiré graphene

Quantized vortices seen in a supersolid for the first time

Further research could shed light on neutron-star glitches

A bright white wave peak passes through spheres of red and blue arrows pointing outward, resembling spiky hedgehogs

Orbital angular momentum monopoles appear in a chiral crystal

Experimental observations at the Swiss Light Source could advance the development of energy-efficient memory devices based on "orbitronics"

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Robert Laughlin: the Nobel interview that became an impromptu press conference

Matin Durrani winces at the time he met Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin

The equipment used to perform the Zel'dovich experiment

Rotating cylinder amplifies electromagnetic fields

The Zel'dovich effect is observed in an electromagnetic system for the first time

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