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Photo of Jian-Xiang Qiu and Suyang Xua posing with the apparatus they used to detect axion quasiparticles. The apparatus comprises lasers and other components mounted on an optical table. They're wearing laser safety glasses.

Axion quasiparticle appears in a topological antiferromagnet

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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Photo of Qimiao Si working in his office

Strange metals get their strangeness from quantum entanglement

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

Sliding droplets generate electrical charge as they stick and unstick

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

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

Inverse design configures magnon-based signal processor

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

New class of quasiparticle appears in bilayer graphene

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

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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