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June 16, 2025

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Atom-Thin Tech Replaces Silicon in the World’s First 2D Computer

June 12, 2025 — In a bold challenge to silicon s long-held dominance in electronics, Penn State researchers have built the world s first working CMOS computer entirely from atom-thin 2D materials. Using molybdenum disulfide and tungsten diselenide, they fabricated ...

Scientists Just Took a Big Step Toward the Quantum Internet

June 12, 2025 — A team of Danish and German scientists has launched a major project to create new technology that could form the foundation of the future quantum internet. They re using a rare element called erbium along with silicon chips like the ones in our ...

Sharper Than Lightning: Oxford’s One-in-6. 7-Million Quantum Breakthrough

June 10, 2025 — Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation--just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations. ...

Photonic Quantum Chips Are Making AI Smarter and Greener

June 8, 2025 — A team of researchers has shown that even small-scale quantum computers can enhance machine learning performance, using a novel photonic quantum circuit. Their findings suggest that today s quantum technology isn t just experimental it can already ...

Scientists Built a Transistor That Could Leave Silicon in the Dust

June 6, 2025 — Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the rules. They've created a cutting-edge transistor using gallium-doped indium oxide with a novel "gate-all-around" structure. By ...

New 2D Quantum Sensor Breakthrough Offers New Opportunities for Magnetic Field Detection

May 29, 2025 — Physicists have unveiled a breakthrough in quantum sensing by demonstrating a 2D material as a versatile platform for next-generation nanoscale vectorial ...

New Quantum Visualization Technique to Identify Materials for Next Generation Quantum Computing

May 29, 2025 — Scientists have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. The significant breakthrough means that, for the ...

Solitonic Superfluorescence Paves Way for High-Temperature Quantum Materials

May 28, 2025 — A new study in Nature describes both the mechanism and the material conditions necessary for superfluorescence at high ...

Achieving a Record-High Curie Temperature in Ferromagnetic Semiconductor

May 27, 2025 — Ferromagnetic semiconductors, which combine semiconductor and magnetic properties, are key to developing spin-based devices. Previously studied materials, such as (Ga,Mn)As, have Curie temperatures below room temperature, thereby limiting their ...

New Biosensor Solves Old Quantum Riddle

May 26, 2025 — Researchers united insights from cellular biology, quantum computing, old-fashioned semiconductors and high-definition TVs to both create a revolutionary new quantum biosensor. In doing so, they shed light on a longstanding mystery in quantum ...

Quantum Eyes on Energy Loss: Diamond Quantum Imaging for Next-Gen Power Electronics

May 26, 2025 — Diamond quantum sensors can be used to analyze the magnetization response of soft magnetic materials used in power electronics; report scientists based on collaborative research. Using a novel ...

Nano-Engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling

May 22, 2025 — Researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today's commercial systems. Driven by the Lab's patented nano-engineered thin-film thermoelectric materials and devices, this innovation paves the ...

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Mind the Band Gap! -- Researchers Create New Nanoscale Forms of Elementary Semiconductor With Tunable Electronic Properties

May 22, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that by using a semiconductor with flexible bonds, the material can be moulded into various structures using nano ...

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Semiconductor Technology Set to Supercharge 6G Delivery

May 22, 2025 — Self-driving cars which eliminate traffic jams, getting a healthcare diagnosis instantly without leaving your home, or feeling the touch of loved ...

Scientists Discover Class of Crystals With Properties That May Prove Revolutionary

May 21, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new class of materials -- called intercrystals -- with unique electronic properties that could power future ...

World's First Petahertz-Speed Phototransistor in Ambient Conditions

May 20, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously -- ...

'Universe's Awkward Handshake' -- Simplifying Information Processing Using Photons a Quantum Breakthrough

May 12, 2025 — Researchers have developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more practical and reliable. The advancement ...

Stability Solution Brings Unique Form of Carbon Closer to Practical Application

May 9, 2025 — Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in ...

A New Method for Characterizing Quantum Gate Errors

May 8, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new protocol for characterizing quantum gate errors, paving the way toward more reliable quantum simulations and fault-tolerant quantum ...

Ultra-Thin Bismuth Holds Unexpected Promise for Green Electronics

May 6, 2025 — Electronic devices rely on materials whose electrical properties change with temperature, making them less stable in extreme conditions. A discovery that challenges conventional wisdom in physics ...

Experimental Quantum Communications Network

May 6, 2025 — Researchers recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical ...

BESSY II: Insight Into Ultrafast Spin Processes With Femtoslicing

May 5, 2025 — An international team has succeeded at BESSY II to elucidate how ultrafast spin-polarized current pulses can be characterized by measuring the ultrafast demagnetization in a magnetic layer system ...

Engineers Advance Toward a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated extremely strong nonlinear light-matter coupling in a quantum circuit. Stronger coupling enables faster quantum readout and operations, ultimately improving the accuracy of ...

Hidden Mechanisms in Next-Generation AI Memory Device

Apr. 25, 2025 — As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, researchers have identified a breakthrough that could make AI technologies faster and more ...

Physicists Uncover Hidden Order in the Quantum World Through Deconfined Quantum Critical Points

Apr. 25, 2025 — A recent study has unraveled some of the secrets concealed within the entangled web of quantum ...

New Electronic 'Skin' Could Enable Lightweight Night-Vision Glasses

Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin 'skins' of electronic material that could be used in applications such as night-vision eyewear and autonomous driving in foggy ...

Crystal Clear Design for High-Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Semiconductor

Apr. 23, 2025 — Researchers have identified a new material which could be used as a flexible semiconductor in wearable devices by using a technique that focuses on the manipulation of spaces between atoms in ...

It's a Quantum Zoo out There, and Scientists Just Found a Dozen New 'Species'

Apr. 21, 2025 — Researchers observe over a dozen never-before-seen quantum states in a unique quantum ...

Pushing Boundaries: Detecting the Anomalous Hall Effect Without Magnetization in a New Class of Materials

Apr. 18, 2025 — An international research team has discovered the anomalous Hall effect in a collinear antiferromagnet. More strikingly, the anomalous Hall effect emerges from a non-Fermi liquid state, in which ...

Scientists Uncover Quantum Surprise: Matter Mediates Ultrastrong Coupling Between Light Particles

Apr. 18, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity that could enable transformative advancements in ...

Researchers Demonstrate New Class of Quantum Materials That Are Both Metallic and One-Dimensional

Apr. 17, 2025 — A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study comes at a ...

Curved Neutron Beams Could Deliver Benefits Straight to Industry

Apr. 17, 2025 — Scientists have created the first neutron 'Airy beam,' which has unusual capabilities that ordinary neutron beams do not. The achievement could enhance neutron-based techniques for ...

A Compact, Mid-Infrared Pulse Generator

Apr. 16, 2025 — Physicists have created a compact laser that emits extremely bright, short pulses of light in a useful but difficult-to-achieve wavelength range, packing the performance of larger photonic devices ...

An Elegant Method for the Detection of Single Spins Using Photovoltage

Apr. 15, 2025 — Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these ...

Light That Spirals Like a Nautilus Shell

Apr. 11, 2025 — Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...

A New Era in Materials Science: Antiferromagnetic Quasicrystals Unveiled

Apr. 11, 2025 — Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding question whether antiferromagnetism, while commonly found in regular crystals, is ...

AI Tool Set to Speed Quest for Advanced Superconductors

Apr. 10, 2025 — Using artificial intelligence shortens the time to identify complex quantum phases in materials from months to minutes, finds a study. The breakthrough could significantly speed up research into ...

Tiny, Soft Robot Flexes Its Potential as a Life Saver

Apr. 8, 2025 — A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...

Researchers Demonstrate the UK's First Long-Distance Ultra-Secure Communication Over a Quantum Network

Apr. 7, 2025 — Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK's first long-distance ...

A New Wave in Ultrafast Magnetic Control

Apr. 2, 2025 — Researchers have developed an innovative method to study ultrafast magnetism in materials. They have shown the generation and application of magnetic field steps, in which a magnetic field is turned ...

Scientists Merge Two 'Impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that ...

Physicists Use Quantum Entanglement to Crack Mystery of Strange Metals

Mar. 28, 2025 — Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals -- materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists has made a breakthrough in ...