The scientific community has faced a significant challenge in understanding what drives the complex behaviors, particularly the superconductivity of kagome materials. New research led by Zhenglu Li, assistant professor of materials science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, uses a computational approach to unlock the mystery of kagome superconductors, offering unique insights into the way electrons interact with the lattice dynamics.

Yale researchers, in collaboration with scientists from City University of New York, California Institute of Technology, Kansas State University and ETH Zurich, leveraged the unusual properties of phonon-polaritons, a type of quasiparticle, to discover a new way to dissipate the energy of high-speed electrons through the generation of long wavelength infrared light.

Newly published research in the journal Nature demonstrates a new way of generating long-wave infrared and terahertz waves, which is an important step toward creating materials that can help realize these technological advances. The work, led by researchers at the CUNY ASRC paves the way for cheaper, smaller long-wave infrared light sources and more efficient device cooling.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) exhibit both magnetic and semiconducting properties at room temperature. The research, led by the University of Cambridge with international colleagues, establishes PNRs as a unique class of low-dimensional materials that challenges conventional views on magnetic semiconductors, and could provide a stepping stone to unlocking new quantum technologies.

Three RIKEN physicists have discovered how tiny tubes of carbon spit out light that is more energetic than the light shone on them. This finding could help to exploit the process in applications such as solar power and biological imaging.

Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team at HZB has now produced mesoporous silicon layers with countless tiny pores and investigated their electrical and thermal conductivity. For the first time, the researchers elucidated the electronic transport mechanism in this mesoporous silicon. The material has great potential for applications and could also be used to thermally insulate qubits for quantum computers.

A quantum “miracle material” could support magnetic switching, a team of researchers at the University of Regensburg and University of Michigan has shown. his recently discovered capability could help enable applications in quantum computing, sensing and more. While earlier studies identified that quantum entities called excitons are sometimes effectively confined to a single line within the material chromium sulfide bromide, the new research provides a thorough theoretical and experimental demonstration explaining how this is connected to the magnetic order in the material.

Argonne researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique to study atomic vibrations near material interfaces, opening doors to new quantum applications in computing and sensing.

Pritzker Molecular Engineering researchers entangled two physically separate resonators.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Xianlong and Dr. WANG Pei from Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a concurrent negative photoconductivity (NPC) and superconductivity in PbSe0.5Te0.5 by pressure-induced structure transition.