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A Fourier transform revealing spatial patterns on the surface at 300 millikelvins. A charge density wave signals the presence of the pair density wave. The background is tellurium atoms on the surface of uranium ditelluride. @University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering Physicists with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering have identified a new form of superconducting behavior. Experiments on the metal urani

Stack two atomically thin layers, rotate one slightly against the other, and a new material emerges. The resulting moiré pattern can slow electrons down so much that their interactions take over. This produces superconductivity, magnetism and exotic fractional quantum states that neither layer shows on its own. This field, known as twistronics, has become one of the most active frontiers in condensed matter physics. So far, however, it has been built on only a handful of mate

From a two-colour diffraction pattern (left), two snapshots of a helium droplet doped with xenon nanoparticles can be reconstructed (centre). These images can inform a potential 3D rendering of a xenon-doped helium nanodroplet (right). An overarching goal of ultrafast science is to enable researchers to watch structural changes in matter on their natural timescale. Experimentally, this translates into taking two snapshots of the same nanoscale object that are only femtosecond

Artistic rendering of a hyperbolic wave attractor forming in an odd-shaped cavity inside a hyperbolic material. Credit: Andrea Alu NEW YORK, September 28, 2026 — When light or sound bounces around inside an oddly shaped room, its reflections can quickly become difficult to predict. But new research led by scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) shows that waves can behave very differently when they travel through a special cl

image:&nbsp;<p>A current pulse lasting only a few picoseconds passes through a superconductor before magnetic vortices have time to move. This lets the current reach far beyond the usual critical current, up to the point where Cooper pairs begin to break apart.</p> Credit: © Jörg Harms, Eryin Wang (MPSD) Superconductivity is one of the most striking collective phenomena in quantum materials. When certain materials are cooled below a characteristic transition temperature, thei

Measurements on Maxymus show (left) that the magnon amplitude does not increase uniformly at both edges of the constriction, but only at one edge. This experimental finding can only be reproduced by micromagnetic simulations if three effects that have hitherto been neglected are taken into account (right). © Advanced Materials (2026): DOI: 10.1002/adma.74547 For the first time, researchers have directly imaged the magnetisation dynamics inside a spin Hall nano-oscillator — a