Just like a book can't be judged by its cover, a material can't always be judged by its surface. But, for an elusive conjectured class of materials, physicists have now shown that the surface ...

Science can be difficult to explain to the public. In fact, any subfield of science can be difficult to explain to another scientist who studies in a different area. Explaining a theoretical science ...

Magnetic quantum oscillations have been unexpectedly observed in insulators, where freely moving charge carriers are not ...

Explaining a theoretical science concept to high school students requires a new way of thinking altogether, which is precisely what researchers did when they orchestrated a dance with high school ...

image: The collaborative team of Prof. Huijun Liu at Wuhan University, Prof. Xingqiu Chen at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Zhenyu Zhang at the University of ...

Metal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer from poor electrical conduction, caused by strong repulsion between electrons ...

Nontrivial topological properties and many-body effects are the two major subjects in modern condensed matter physics. In a system involving these two subjects, obtaining knowledge of a wave function, ...

In condensed matter physics, topological insulators (TIs) represent a new class of materials with insulating bulks and conducting symmetry-protected surface states 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. The remarkable ...