Scientists have succeeded in unraveling the mystery of the ‘electron tunneling’ process for the first time. The feat, a core ...

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

For decades, ferromagnetic materials have driven technologies like magnetic hard drives, magnetic random access memories and ...

Scientists discover new electronic states in graphene that could pave the way for more efficient, error-free quantum computers.

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

Scientists have cracked a century-old physics mystery by detecting magnetic signals in non-magnetic metals using only light ...

POSTECH, MPK, and Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have revealed the hidden dynamics of electrons during quantum ...

Increasing numerical studies showed that the simplest Hubbard model on the square lattice with strong repulsion may not ...

More information: Raphael Dahan et al. Resonant phase-matching between a light wave and a free-electron wavefunction, Nature Physics (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01042-w.

Adrienne Fairhall and David Hertzog, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which is one of the most ...

To create an exposure time capable of capturing electron movements, physicists developed methods to generate tiny attosecond (or 1X10^-18 seconds) pulses in the early 2000s — an advance which ...

Researchers at MIT have observed “electron whirlpools” for the first time. The bizarre behavior arises when electricity flows as a fluid, which could make for more efficient electronics.