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US scientists adjust ingredient ratios as a control knob to determine quantum properties of popular topological ...

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

Today's most powerful computers hit a wall when tackling certain problems, from designing new drugs to cracking encryption ...

Today's most powerful computers hit a wall when tackling certain problems, from designing new drugs to cracking encryption codes. Error-free quantum ...

Physicists have finally built a microscope that can watch superconducting electrons move in real time, and the picture is far ...

An experiment with superconducting qubits opens the door to determining whether quantum devices could be less energetically ...

How exactly unconventional superconductivity arises is one of the central questions of modern solid-state physics. A new study published in the journal Nature provides crucial insights into this ...

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How exactly does unconventional superconductivity arise? In the journal Nature, an international research team involving the University of Hamburg describes a direct microscopic connection between a ...

By adjusting the ratio of two ingredients, UChicago PME & WVU scientists can switch exotic quantum states on and off in ...

MIT researchers have built a terahertz microscope that reveals hidden quantum motion inside superconductors for the first time.