In some solid materials under specific conditions, mutual Coulomb interactions shape electrons into many-body correlated states, such as Wigner crystals, which are essentially solids made of electrons ...

Chinese researchers have developed a new type of optical crystal that could help address several major supply chain bottlenecks.

The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data – from experimental records of crystal structures and ...

Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has ...

A recent study published in Nature Materials examined how machine learning is used to reveal the atomic mechanisms of argyrodites, which could open the doors for a new age of energy storage. This is ...

In general, when you measure material properties such as optical permittivity, your measurement doesn’t depend on the direction in which you make it. However, recent research has shown that this is ...

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first observation of a dynamic magnetochiral instability in a solid-state material ...