Quantum spin liquids are fascinating states of matter where magnetic spins stay disordered, defying the usual rules of magnetism. Scientists have made an exciting discovery about one such material.

Both the charge and the spin of an electron in a QD have been considered as qubit candidates. However, two recent papers show that an even better bet could be the absence of one electron (known as ...

causing that electron to flip its spin direction (down to up). This spin flip will give rise to an electrical current, which is measured in the experiment.

One of the most powerful tools for studying these waves is time-resolved electron ... whose spin covers the entire sphere. To reconstruct the spin texture from the experiment, the researchers ...

Superconductors can carry electricity without losing energy, a superpower that makes them invaluable for a range of ...

Other physicists recognized this, and redid the thought experiment to use more intuitive properties such as electron spin and photon phase as opposed to position / momentum to describe the paradox.

‘Ordinary’ spinless electron systems don’t ... “The remarkable agreement between the experiment and theory collapsed when we eliminated spin,” Kravchenko says. Specifically, the team ...

and hence with the electron's spin angular momentum. The interaction of spin in a magnet field was, after all, how spin was discovered in the 1920 Stern Gerlach experiment. Eight years later ...