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

IBM’s Scanning Tunneling Microscope, or STM for short ... or the diameter of a large atom. Quantum Mechanics is a strange world, indeed. Everyday things that we take for granted, things like ...

In a discovery that brings a legendary quantum theory to life, physicists at Princeton University have directly observed ...

In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers at Princeton University have observed a fractal energy pattern in ...

Scientists at Princeton University have made a groundbreaking discovery in quantum materials, revealing that electron energy ...

The microscope works by bringing a sharp metallic tip less than a nanometer from the surface to allow quantum “tunneling” of electrons from the tip to the sample. When using the STM to study ...

the quantum drum has made its debut. The ability of the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to manipulate and probe matter at the level of single atoms and molecules has been established for ...

The microscope works by bringing a sharp metallic tip less than a nanometer from the surface to allow quantum "tunneling" of electrons from the tip to the sample. When using the STM to study their ...

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an experimental technique based on the principles of quantum tunneling of electrons between two electrodes separated by a potential barrier, typically used for ...

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The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope. Quantum sensors convert the signals into light, enabling extremely high-resolution optical imaging.

In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers at Princeton University have observed a fractal energy pattern in quantum materials ... While using the STM, the team noticed unusual behavior ...