Spintronics—a technology that harnesses the electron's magnetic quantum states to carry information—could pave the way for a new generation of ultra-energy-efficient electronics. Yet a major challenge ...

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or ...

In most conventional semiconductors, thermal conductivity decreases as temperature rises because heat-carrying lattice vibrations—called phonons—scatter more frequently.

Engineers have discovered an unexpected link between two very different realms of physics: the behavior of electrons in ...

Quantum mechanical effects are known to be easily disrupted by disturbances from the surrounding environment, commonly referred to as noise. To minimize these disturbances, physicists often study ...

Physicists at Boston University have achieved what amounts to a long-sought benchmark in quantum measurement: detecting the ...

Scientists have decoded how heat flows in magnetic semiconductors, materials that are critical to emerging technologies such as spintronics, magnetic memory, and quantum devices. The discovery ...

For nearly half a century, astronomers have believed that stars like our sun eventually ...