In the tug-of-war between order and chaos within multielemental carbides, entropy eventually claims victory over enthalpy by pushing the system toward complete disorder as the diversity of elements in ...

The name skyrmion derives from the British field theorist Tony Skyrme, who considered topologically protected defects (multidimensional solitons) in continuous nonlinear field models as having ...

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered ...

Physicists have created a magnetic state in a few atomic layers of artificially synthesized materials known as transition metal oxides. Physicists at the University of Arkansas and their collaborators ...

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have created the first-ever atomic movies showing how atoms rearrange locally within a quantum material as it ...

A heavy element’s nucleus is all bent out of shape. Nobelium — element number 102 on the periodic table — has an atomic nucleus that is deformed into the shape of an American football, scientists ...