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Optical vortices provide a natural way to create topologies
New work suggests that building nontrivial topologies around optical vortices could be a better strategy than engineering delicate polarisation patterns across an entire beam
Probing quantum critical points
A new Quantum Monte Carlo method reveals distinct entanglement signatures of different quantum critical points
Tuning frustrated magnetism with stress
Uniaxial stress induces a new magnetic phase in PdCrO₂, revealing strong coupling between magnetic order, electronic structure and lattice elasticity
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Improved QLEDs with Machine Learning
Machine learning identified solvent formulations that produce highly homogeneous quantum dot films
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Quantum computers may pay a price for keeping time
A quantum computer that runs itself using an internal clock can only compute accurately if that clock is precise, and that precision comes with a thermodynamic cost
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Do exceptional-point sensors really measure better?
New research shows that sensors based on exceptional points can beat ordinary sensors in ideal quantum-limited measurements, but only if the light input, loss rate, and the pertur...
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Quantum effects in chemical reactions
New research shows that chemical reactions in an ultracold quantum gas can generate entanglement and transfer phase information from atoms to molecules
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Memory effects in nanoparticle suspensions
Researchers uncover how memory effects arise in electrically aligned nanoparticles in suspension and use this understanding to accelerate relaxation
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Magnetic molecules explain a puzzling material
Researchers have uncovered how a two-dimensional magnet reorganises itself into hexagonal magnetic clusters, producing an unusual quantum-disordered state
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Mapping electric fields in working graphene devices
High-resolution imaging shows how oxide layers modify graphene's electrical behaviour
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Understanding core-shell nanoparticle growth
A study of platinum-coated nanoparticles shows how energy balance controls crystal growth
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A new way to trap and twist light inside quasicrystals
By reshaping quasicrystals with carefully designed defects, researchers can create and control stable twisting beams of light in new ways.
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The physics of protein condensates
Simulations reveal how disordered proteins cluster and form biomolecular condensates
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Nonlinear photoexcitation in Mott Insulators
Laser-driven feedback effects reveal new ways to engineer conductivity in strongly interacting systems
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Making sense of quantum wavefunction collapse
By modelling measurement as a continuous stochastic process, this work offers a compelling alternative to discontinuous collapse processes
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