Quantized magneto-electric effect demonstrated for the first time in...
The 'quantized magneto-electric effect' has been demonstrated for the first time in topological insulators at TU Wien, which is set to open up new and highly accurate methods of measurement.
View ArticleResearch makes topological insulators magnetic well above room temperatures
In the world of electronics, where the quest is always for smaller and faster units with infinite battery life, topological insulators (TI) have tantalizing potential.
View ArticleX-ray technique provides a new window into exotic properties of an atomically...
An international team of researchers, working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, fabricated an atomically thin material and measured its...
View ArticleNew method could enable more stable and scalable quantum computing,...
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College, have discovered a new topological material which may enable fault-tolerant quantum...
View ArticleSpinning electrons open the door to future hybrid electronics
A discovery of how to control and transfer spinning electrons paves the way for novel hybrid devices that could outperform existing semiconductor electronics. In a study published in Nature...
View ArticlePhysicists demonstrate topological superconductivity on palladium dibismuthides
The search for Majorana fermions, particles that are their own anti-particles, in topological superconductors is of paramount importance in condensed matter physics today. Recently, a research team led...
View ArticlePhysicists study magnetic impurities in topological insulators
A group of physicists from MIPT and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences are now one step closer to finding applications for topological insulators—materials...
View ArticleNew class of insulating crystals hosts quantized electric multipole moments
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University have theoretically predicted a new class of insulating phases of matter in crystalline materials, pinpointed where...
View ArticleBreakthrough in spintronics
It's ultra-thin, electrically conducting at the edge and highly insulating within—and all that at room temperature: Physicists from the University of Würzburg have developed a promising new material.
View ArticleResearchers find path to discovering new topological materials
An international team of researchers has found a way to determine whether a crystal is a topological insulator—and to predict crystal structures and chemical compositions in which new ones can arise....
View ArticleExperiment finds evidence for the Majorana fermion, a particle that's its own...
In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle - its identical twin but with opposite charge. When particle and...
View ArticleResearchers uncover new avenues for finding unique class of insulators
For the last decade, scientists have sought topological insulators, materials that are insulating on the inside but conduct current on their surfaces. Although first predicted around 2005, very few...
View ArticleReality check for topological insulators
Topological insulators, a class of materials which has been investigated for just over a decade, have been heralded as a new 'wonder material", as has graphene. But so far, topological insulators have...
View ArticleWhat Earth's climate system and topological insulators have in common
Topological insulators, materials that insulate on the inside but conduct electricity along their outer edges, have created quite a buzz in condensed matter physics. Now a new study in the journal...
View ArticleSpin current detection in quantum materials unlocks potential for alternative...
A new method that precisely measures the mysterious behavior and magnetic properties of electrons flowing across the surface of quantum materials could open a path to next-generation electronics.
View ArticleMissing link between new topological phases of matter discovered
Physicists at BESSY II have investigated a class of materials that exhibit characteristics of topological insulators. During these studies, they discovered a transition between two different...
View ArticleA new concept for a unidirectional waveguide
In the past decade, a new type of material has attracted raising attraction: the so-called topological insulator. This class of materials exhibits a very peculiar property: they behave like insulators...
View ArticleTopological insulators—one glimpse is enough
The Nobel Prize for physics in 2016 was awarded for the theory of topological matter. Topological insulators are new materials with special electronic properties and are of great fundamental and...
View ArticleResearchers achieve significant breakthrough in topological insulator-based...
Realisation of room temperature spin-orbit torque-driven magnetisation switching in topological insulator-ferromagnet heterostructures has promising applications in low power consumption and high...
View ArticleKey component to scale up quantum computing
A team at the University of Sydney and Microsoft, in collaboration with Stanford University in the US, has miniaturised a component that is essential for the scale-up of quantum computing. The work...
View ArticleEngineering electron pathways in 2-D topological insulators
In a recent article published in Physical Review Letters a research collaborative has reported new insights into the electronic conduction and interference on 2-D topological insulators—an exotic kind...
View ArticleResearchers steer the flow of electrical current with spinning light
Light can generate an electrical current in semiconductor materials. This is how solar cells generate electricity from sunlight and how smart phone cameras can take photographs. To collect the...
View ArticleElectronically-smooth '3-D graphene': A bright future for trisodium bismuthide
Researchers have found that the topological material trisodium bismuthide (Na3Bi) can be manufactured to be as 'electronically smooth' as the highest-quality graphene-based alternative, while...
View ArticleA powerful guiding principle for topological quantum synthesis
Topological materials can be classified into topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline insulators, topological Dirac semimetals, topological Weyl semimetals, topological nodal-line...
View ArticleResearchers demonstrate the existence of a new kind of magnetoresistance...
From various magnetic tapes, floppy disks and computer hard disk drives, magnetic materials have been storing our electronic information along with our valuable knowledge and memories for well over...
View ArticleGyroscopes lead scientists to unusual state of matter in a disorganized...
You don't have to be perfectly organized to pull off a wave, according to University of Chicago scientists.
View ArticleQuantum physics turned into tangible reality
ETH physicists have developed a silicon wafer that behaves like a topological insulator when stimulated using ultrasound. They have thereby succeeded in turning an abstract theoretical concept into a...
View ArticleResearchers produce 2-D sheets of tin atoms
The merits of graphene, a 2-D sheet of carbon atoms, are well established. In its wake have followed a host of post-graphene materials—structural analogues of graphene made of elements such as silicon...
View ArticleApplying topological physics to lasing creates more highly efficient and...
Israeli and US researchers have developed a new, highly efficient coherent and robust semiconductor laser system: the topological insulator laser.
View Article40-year controversy in solid-state physics resolved
An international team at BESSY II headed by Prof. Oliver Rader has shown that the puzzling properties of samarium hexaboride do not stem from the material being a topological insulator, as was...
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