Research by physicists at The City College of New York is being credited for a novel discovery regarding the interaction of ...

Twisted moiré photonic crystals—an advanced type of optical metamaterial—have shown enormous potential in the race to ...

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This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

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In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

A complete theoretical understanding of many simple problems in quantum physics is still lacking ... Exploiting the intrinsic response of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene to resonant terahertz ...

Scientists at Princeton University have made a groundbreaking discovery in quantum materials, revealing that electron energy levels in certain systems follow a fractal pattern known as Hofstadter’s ...

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In a new study published in Nano Letters, researchers at the University of Rochester show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons—essentially, artificial atoms—that can act as ...

Wilson Professor of Optical Physics. "By doing the big twist ... use some of those other materials at these large angles, they will probably work even better." The team views this as an important ...