For decades, it has been widely believed that electrons move most efficiently in materials that are clean and highly ordered.

For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by ...

One of the big themes of the talks I went to at last week's March Meeting was the exploration of exotic materials, with names like "topological insulators" and "Weyl semi-metals." While there are a ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found that vibrating molecules can launch electrons across solar cell ...

We present a theoretical and experimental study of a plasmonic nanoelectrode architecture that is able to inject bunches of hot electrons into an aqueous environment. In this approach, electrons are ...

Under the right circumstances, electrons can actually “freeze” into a bizarre solid form. Now, physicists at Berkeley Lab have created and taken the first ever direct images of this structure. At low ...

To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a crystal made entirely of electrons. The structures have been theorized for decades, but this marks the first time they’ve been experimentally confirmed in the ...

Electrons in graphene break a key law of metals and reveal a strange quantum fluid. The discovery has surprised scientists.

Physicists have trapped electrons in a pure crystal, marking the first achievement of an electronic flat band in a three-dimensional material. The results provide a new way for scientists to explore ...

Experiments in which systems of interacting electrons are split apart reveal the signatures of a liquid-like state — even for as few as three electrons. Read the paper: Evidence of Coulomb liquid ...

Although elusive, the quantum spin has led to some of the deepest insights we now know. Quantum mechanics has a lot of weird stuff - but there are things that everyone agrees that no one understands.