An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that ...

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

Controlling the arrangement of atomic vacancies offers a new way to adjust electronic, magnetic, thermal, and hydrogen ...

Scientists have developed a new type of time crystal – called a time quasicrystal – that could lead to breakthroughs in ...

In a new and significant breakthrough in the field of quantum physics, a team of researchers from Washington University in St ...

Sapphire glass and quartz glass, as two important optical materials ... However, due to the influence of its crystal structure and chemical composition, the transmittance of sapphire glass in the ...

We have now been able to determine the crystal structure of xenon by a method allowing the use of a very small quantity of gas: it was condensed as a very thin layer upon the surface of a quartz ...

Physicists have long been fascinated by the concept of symmetry breaking, a fundamental principle in physical sciences that underpins the formation of distinct phases of matter. In conventional ...

it helps to think about familiar crystals such as diamonds or quartz. Those minerals owe their shape and shine to their highly organized structures. The carbon atoms in a diamond interact with ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered high-purity quartz crystals on Mars, a discovery that could reshape the search for ancient life on the Red Planet. The crystals, along with other minerals such ...

Pure quartz crystals have been spotted on Mars for the first time, as well as other gems like opal. Researchers say these crystals, as well as being evidence of past hydrothermal activity ...