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Universal Hopfions

Scientists find a unique knotted structure — one that repeats itself throughout nature — in a ferroelectric nanoparticle, a material with promising applications in microelectronics ...

Yes, no, or may be ?

New study of ferroelectrics offers roadmap to multivalued logic for neuromorphic computing. This is the way our brains operate ...

THz vortex dynamics in ferroelectrics

The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus viewed swirling vortices of matter, as fundamental components of the Universe. ...

Domains for negative capacitance

With a little physics ingenuity, scientists have designed a way to redistribute electricity on a small scale, opening new avenues of research into more energy-efficient computing ...

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Ferroelectrics, NC test is positive !

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that domains in ferroelectrics could lead to transistors with reduced power consumption ...

Scientists crack mystery in VO2

Researchers said their theoretical work could help guide future experimental research in vanadium dioxide and ultimately aid the development of new technologies ...

Quartz, the puzzle of light scattering

A new modulated phase discovered in quartz solves the 60-years problem of the anomalous light scattering which is the strongest scattering known in nature ...

Controled handedness

Chirality, which discriminates “left” and “right”, is one of the most intriguing phenomena in nature. Researchers showed the possibility of chirality switching ...

Letter to Nobel Committee

Nobel Prize 2010 was given for “ two-dimensional material graphene.” In fact, before 2010 some of graphene properties have been uncovered ...

Critical Superconductivity

A newly discovered superconductor state opens a window to the evolution of the universe. The behavior of the vortices strictly obeyed the Abelian Higgs model of quantum field theory ...

Dirac Fermions in Graphite

How realistic is relativistic theory to describe phenomena in a condensed matter system ? The 1st unambiguous evidence for Dirac fermions in solids has been reported ...

Nano-world of domains

The famous Landau expression: "No one can cancel the Coulomb law" is often overlooked in attempts to understand the spontaneous polarization in ferroelectrics ...