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Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and Kyung Hee University, have discovered a powerful new way to control tiny quantum light sources by twisting atomically thin layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). In a study published in Science Advances, the team demonstrated that by stacking and twisting hBN layers, they could significantly shift the color and wavelength of quantum emitters. This twistable platfo

Published recently in Science, it is the first experimental observation of a half-Möbius electronic topology in a single molecule. To the scientists’ knowledge, a molecule with such topology has never before been synthesized, observed, or even formally predicted. Understanding this molecule’s behavior at the electronic structure level required something equally fundamental: a high fidelity quantum computing simulation. The discovery advances science on two fronts. For chemist

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have demonstrated for the first time that even realistic, small amounts of disorder in modern quantum simulators can cause the system to exhibit completely different physical behaviour. Quantum simulators play a central role in the development of future quantum technologies, including quantum computers and advanced materials design. For these technologies to work reliably, we must understand how sensitive they are to imperfections

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, physicists from the University of Vienna and the University of Duisburg-Essen show that even massive nanoparticles consisting of thousands of sodium atoms follow the rules of quantum mechanics. The experiment is currently one of the best tests of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic s

Quantum spins interacting collectively create unique behaviors impossible for individual particles. The Kondo effect—where localized spins interact with conduction electrons—is central to understanding these phenomena, but in real materials, additional electron behaviors obscure the pure spin interactions. For nearly 50 years, physicists sought to realize the Kondo necklace model, which isolates spin interactions by removing this complexity. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan

What if you could create new materials just by shining a light at them? To most, this sounds like science fiction or alchemy, but to physicists investigating the burgeoning field of Floquet engineering, this is the goal. With a periodic drive, like light, scientists can ‘dress up’ the electronic structure of any material, altering its fundamental properties – such as turning a simple semiconductor into a superconductor.