Quantized conductance — whereby the current through a wire changes in a stepwise, rather than continuous manner — has been seen in very narrow ribbons of graphene for the first time. The discovery was ...

Advances in epitaxial growth of high-quality low-dimensional strained germanium semiconductor structures in recent years have opened up options for studies of these systems that previously were not ...

Physicists have demonstrated size quantization of charge carriers, i.e. quantized conductance in nanoscale samples of graphene. Quantum mechanics is the field of physics governing the behavior of ...

Magnetic materials reduced to a single atom show unexpected magnetic properties that interact with the spin states of the transmitting electrons and modify the nature of the quantized conductance.

Quantized magnetoresistance has been observed in an experiment for the first time. In addition to being of fundamental interest, the result could have applications in sensing and data storage. One of ...

In the latest experiment of its kind, researchers have captured the most compelling evidence to date that unusual particles lurk inside a special kind of superconductor. The result confirms ...

An international research collaboration with the involvement of the UAB demonstrates for the first time that memristors, electronic devices at the nanoscale, can easily calibrate electrical resistance ...

Quantum mechanics is the field of physics governing the behavior of things on atomic scales, where things work very differently from our everyday world. One of the most direct manifestations of ...