In a discovery that brings a legendary quantum theory to life, physicists at Princeton University have directly observed Hofstadter’s butterfly — a fractal pattern in electron energy levels that was ...

Something strange goes on inside the material platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi₂). A new study by researchers at IFW Dresden and the ...

At the subatomic level, particles interact not only with one another, but with the quantum fields inherent to space, both owing to the presence of charged sources and also to the quantum vacuum of ...

A team of researchers from TU Wien has shed new light on the behavior of electrons fleeing a solid material. Their research solves a long-standing mystery in condensed matter physics. When a material ...

A periodic arrangement of organic molecules on a copper surface scatters the electrons in three possible directions in-plane. Credit: IMDEA Nanociencia The means for exploiting quantum effects in the ...

Zap Energy’s FuZE-3 device has reached giga-pascal-level plasma pressures thanks to a novel design that independently tunes ...

Half a century ago, Walter Henneberger wondered if it was possible to free an electron from its atom, but still make it stay around the nucleus. Scientists considered it was impossible. For the first ...

Heating up A false-colour electron microscope image of the device, which creates entangled pairs of electrons. The green layers are graphene on top of the grey superconductor. The two quantum dots can ...