The best candidate for next-generation magnetic devices—technology that can power, store, sense or transport information—may be, counterintuitively, antiferromagnets. Today, the most widely used ...

Superconductivity is a quantum state of matter characterized by an electrical resistance of zero and the expulsion of ...

Researchers in Finland have experimentally realized a long-predicted class of quantum material: a two-dimensional topological ...

Physicists hunting for new superconductors often look for a very specific shape hidden in ...

By cooling an atom-thin magnetic material, physicists have experimentally confirmed a classic 1970s model of two-dimensional ...

A meteorite that fell in Germany in 1724 contains a form of silica that conducts heat in a stable manner and baffles physicists.