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A photo of Joseph Carroll standing in a laboratory next to a large machine with many cables, pipes and valves running into it. He's wearing a white shirt and black jeans, and the walls of the lab are covered in white acoustic insulation material

New microscopy technique can identify topological superconductors

New mechanism explains behaviour of materials exhibiting giant magnetoresistance

"Remarkable" new model of quantum double-exchange ferromagnets could produce fresh insights into these technologically-important materials

Coulomb liquid emerges from five electrons in a semiconductor

Study could shed light on exotic phases of matter

Liquid carbon reveals its secrets

Researchers characterize the structure of liquid carbon for the first time, thanks to experiments at the European XFEL

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A series of images showing droplets of orange liquid separating and splitting on a grey background

Sound waves control droplet movement in microfluidic processor

Photo of a jagged, multicoloured, shiny bismuth crystal sitting on a scientific paper

Has bismuth been masquerading as a topological material?

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

Layer-spintronics makes its debut

New technique does away with the need for strong magnetic fields to control spin currents

Superconducting device delivers ultrafast changes in magnetic field

System could provide important insights into the dynamics of magnetic materials

Supercritical water reveals its secrets

New terahertz spectroscopy study puts to rest a long-standing controversy

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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

A water droplet spreading and contracting on a flat plate of Teflon

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

Diagram showing a molecule of methane (1 carbon and four hydrogen atoms) surrounded by several hydrogen molecules, all depicted as ball-and-stick models. The molecules are within a blue circle, representing the helium nanodroplet. On the right, a second diagram shows the same system, but with a laser light shining on it, and depicting the methane molecule as a ruby-red droplet surrounded by a frozen-looking liquid.

Superfluid phase spotted in molecular hydrogen for the first time

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

Manu jumping: the physics of making a bigger splash

Analysing the Māori and Pasifika sport

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

Noble gas forms compounds with iron at extremely high pressures

Joint APS meeting brings together the physics community

The APS has combined its March Meeting and April Meeting into the Global Physics Summit, the largest physics conference in the world

Image illustrating four different stages of turbulent mixing between two fluids. The different fluids are represented by cool and warm colours, and the four stages are set against a background of swirls and bubbles

Quantum-inspired technique simulates turbulence with high speed

Simulations could take just a few hours rather than several days

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Memory of previous contacts affects static electricity on materials

Important clue found in the mystery of inconsistent triboelectric series

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

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