When magnetism meets topology
The search for exotic particles is one of the most fascinating pursuits of modern physics. While this area of research is traditionally associated with elementary particles created in high-energy physics, simple ‘quasi-particles’, with sometimes highly unconventional...
Magnetically driven metal-insulator transition in a correlated spin-orbit material
Perhaps the most basic classification of a material is according to whether or not it conducts electricity in response to an applied electric field. However, our understanding of why the metallic state is preferred over the insulating one, or vice versa, is far from...
New method to measure nano-mechanical bending
New advances in nanometrology have been developed by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology and published in the journal Scientific Reports, opening new opportunities to convert nanomechanical biosensors to reliable consumer products. The new method to...