Scientists at the U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University have discovered an unexpected ...

In quantum dots the band gap of containing materials is higher than the band gap of the contained materials. That difference in band gaps leads to input energy being trapped in the smaller band ...

Quantum computers, based on the laws of quantum mechanics, use quantum bits, or qubits, which not only use two states, but also use a superposition of those two states. A famous example of qubit is ...

A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.

Researchers from the Rice Center for Quantum Materials in Houston, Texas, and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, recently created a theoretical model they hoped would help them better ...

A new semimetal has been found, showing remarkable properties: It is a quantum critical material, which means that it has phase transitions at absolute zero temperature. Usually, quantum ...

New type of quantum material Predictions lay groundwork for experiments to create 'Weyl-Kondo semimetal' Date: December 19, 2017 Source: Rice University ...

Modeling the quantum world is far from easy. The physical peculiarities of quantum mechanics are far removed from the world we inhabit, and there are systems whose complexity is even beyond ...

By demonstrating that multiple quantum interactions can coexist and be controlled in a single material, researchers open the door for ultrafast, low-power electronics and quantum computers.

A Princeton team has found a hidden chiral quantum state in a Kagome lattice material, breaking key symmetries and opening new paths in physics. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

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Quantum states that arise and are maintained through the structure of the material used in qubits are called "topological excitations" and are significantly more stable and resilient than others.