Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding question whether antiferromagnetism, while commonly found in regular crystals, is ...

Researchers have discovered antiferromagnetism in a quasicrystal. The team was led by Ryuji Tamura from the Department of ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new method for parameterizing machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIP) to simulate magnetic materials, making the prediction of their ...

An odd solid that can flow like a fluid has been ... have zero viscosity and a crystal-like structure akin to the arrangement ...

The technology, called Single-Molecule Atomic-Resolution Time-resolved Electron Microscopy (SMART-EM for short), lets scientists observe individual atoms and molecules as they interact during chemical ...

A research team from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics and Panasonic Holdings Corporation has developed a machine ...

As the clouds clear on computational crystal structure prediction, is the technique ready to empower mainstream materials research? James Mitchell Crow reports ...

Bright idea: Wolfgang Ketterle (in his M.I.T lab) hopes to discover new forms of matter by studying ultracold atoms. Richard Howard ... of oozing through walls solid enough to hold any other ...

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

Once the diamonds are brought to the surface and cooled relatively quickly, those carbon atoms are locked into place and there's just not enough energy to now start rearranging them into graphite.

Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron ...