The green laser excites charge carriers in the NV centres, which are then captured by surface states. The scanning tip moves over the surface and measures a potential difference around a NV centre.

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or spins, align in one of two ways: all pointing in the same direction in ...

Physicist John Nichol uses equipment such as a dilution refrigerator to study quantum systems. He recently provided the first direct evidence of a quantum state called the nuclear-spin dark state, a ...

A material thought to be a quantum spin liquid actually exhibits a newly identified magnetic state caused by competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions. Materials that enter a quantum ...

Magnetic materials in a quantum spin liquid phase are of great interest in the pursuit of exotic state of matter and quantum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of Rochester have, for the first time ever, confirmed the existence of a "nuclear-spin dark state," ...

Scientists are closer to creating a quantum spin liquid, a state where electron spins stay dynamic even at near absolute zero, key for future quantum computing. (Nanowerk News) The future of computing ...

Solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) offer a route for efficient energy conversion and storage by converting renewable electricity into storable chemical fuels through high-temperature carbon ...

Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these ...