Topological insulators could form the basis for revolutionary electronic components. However, as they generally only function at very low temperatures, their practical application has been severely ...

Imagine a two-dimensional flatland, instead of our three-dimensional world, where the rules of physics are turned on their head and particles like electrons defy expectations to reveal new secrets.

(Nanowerk News) The quantum Hall effect, a fundamental effect in quantum mechanics, not only generates an electric but also a magnetic current. It arises from the motion of electrons on an orbit ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Studying quantum phenomena—such as the quantum Hall effect and ‘edge state’ electrons—is incredibly difficult because they occur at such small scales ...

Researchers show nanoscale memristors can calibrate electrical resistance without complex labs or extreme conditions, opening metrological uses in electronics.

The engineering of optically synthesized magnetic fields allows neutral atoms to emulate charged behavior, paving the way for ...

Artist’s impression of the quantum spin Hall effect in a graphene-based spintronic device, integrated in a chip. The blue and red spheres are spin-up and spin-down electrons traveling along the edge ...

(a) Schematics of the A-A stacking hexagonal lattice. (b) First Brillouin zone and the distribution of the Weyl points. The arrows show their shifts direction by changing the on-site energies of A and ...

Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without a magnetic field coaxing them into it. In the 127 years since the electron was discovered, it has ...