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Ferroelectric devices push reservoir computing forward
By pairing a ferroelectric capacitor with a linear capacitor, researchers create a power‑efficient device with tuneable memory and strong nonlinear responses
A new explanation for negative thermal expansion
Revealing how copper atoms shift under heat offers a blueprint for engineering materials with precisely controlled expansion
How topological surfaces strengthen magnetism
Topological surface states are found to mediate a strong, non‑oscillatory interaction that aligns magnetic moments and enhances ferromagnetic order
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The mathematics of quantum entanglement
A team of researchers from Poland have developed new mathematical methods that could help enable better control of quantum entanglement and teleportation experiments
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Revealing the magic in hybrid quantum systems
Quantum technologies rely on more than just entanglement. Another, less well-known ingredient is non-stabiliserness, often called magic
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Superconductivity’s new contender
Doubly charged excitons in transition‑metal dichalcogenide bilayers may unlock an entirely new route to friction‑free charge flow
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A single theory for complicated quantum systems
A unified field‑theoretic framework models open quantum spins across all coupling and memory regimes
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Revealing hidden orbital topology in light-element materials
Phosphorene hosts an orbital Chern insulator with an experimentally distinct orbital Hall effect
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Decoding the impact of sudden shocks: A new predictive framework for climate and complex systems
Accurately predicting how a system responds to sudden changes is a major challenge across fields like climate science, finance, and epidemiology. Now, a team of researchers has dev...
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The search for new bosons beyond Higgs
CMS researchers probed top‑quark pairs for signs of new scalar and pseudoscalar particles
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Pushing thermopower to the 2D limit
LETO/ETO superlattices achieve 20× thermopower enhancement through true 2D electron behaviour
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Making multipartite entanglement easier to detect
New advances in entanglement witnesses allow researchers to verify genuine multipartite entanglement even in noisy, high‑dimensional and computationally relevant quantum states
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Resolving the spin of sound
Researchers show how sound waves can hold conserved spin angular momentum, resolving a long‑standing theoretical debate
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A breakthrough in modelling open quantum matter
By analysing the Liouville gap in imaginary time, scientists reveal universal phase‑transition behaviour in both ground and finite‑temperature states
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How reversibility becomes irreversible
A new framework shows how lost information in quantum systems gives rise to macroscopic entropy and the arrow of time
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