Quantum defects are tiny imperfections in solid crystal lattices that can trap individual electrons and their "spin" (i.e., ...

Quantum computing's biggest challenge is no longer proving the concept works – it is figuring out how to make the technology practical at scale. Today's qubit ...

So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

New research reveals when oxygen flips from stable to reactive, "singlet" form connecting the chemistry of life with ...

An international team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), Tohoku University (Japan), and École ...

Scientists directly observed dark excitons in atomically thin materials, revealing how they evolve and paving the way for ...

Scientists at OIST have, for the first time, directly tracked the elusive “dark excitons” inside atomically thin materials.

In conventional molecular semiconductor solar cells, the conversion of an absorbed photon into electrons and holes ...

A new organic semiconductor molecule could lead to lighter and simpler solar panels made entirely from a single material. For ...

The future of computing lies in the surprising world of quantum physics, where the rules are much different from the ones ...

Scientists are closer to creating a quantum spin liquid, a state where electron spins stay dynamic even at near absolute zero ...

In a discovery that bridges a century of physics, scientists have observed a phenomenon, once thought to be the domain of ...