This ‘beautiful’ herringbone-like pattern could give rise to unique features that scientists are just starting to explore.

The SIMES investigator was cited for his singular contributions to quantum materials science.

If scaled up successfully, the team's new system could help answer questions about certain kinds of superconductors and other unusual states of matter.

Two of the most urgent challenges of our time – clean energy and sustainability – require investigation at the atomic level.

Presented by Yi Cui, SLAC/Stanford University. To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as possible with clean electricity.

Spiraling laser light reveals how topological insulators lose their ability to conduct electric current on their surfaces.

Waves of magnetic excitation sweep through this exciting new material whether it’s in superconducting mode or not – another possible clue to how unconventional superconductors carry electric current with no loss.

Researchers discover they contain a phase of quantum matter, known as charge density waves, that’s common in other unconventional superconductors. In other ways, though, they’re surprisingly unique.