A quirk of scheduling – or an APS organizer with a dark sense of humour – meant that the two sessions were practically next ...

Researchers have succeeded in measuring how energy dissipates in quantum dots by quantifying the entropy they produce. The work, by a team at Stanford University in the US, could help in the ...

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Cryptography pioneers Charles Bennett (left) and Gilles Brassard introduced the BB84 protocol the uses the principles of ...

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The chirality lies in the geometry Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of nickel-based artificial chiral magnets fabricated at EPFL’s Center of MicroNanoTechnology. (Courtesy: Mingran Xu, Dirk ...

Physicists at Columbia University in the US say they may have found evidence for a phenomenon in which a superfluid suddenly stops flowing inside a solid-state material. If confirmed, the finding – ...

Global conflicts are making renewable energy more attractive, but an all-renewable grid will require solving physics problems ...

Jiggling superfluid An artist’s depiction of a superfluid wave propagating through a layered superconductor. (Courtesy: ...

New work could help design electronic devices in which heat can be guided in certain directions, minimizing heat loss ...

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