Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in ...

A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered ...

You’d think there would be a law against this, and scientists thought there was, but somehow it happens, and it could help ...

Researchers have developed what amounts to a programmable platform for quantum chirality that could provide new approaches to ...

By combining the principles of physics, chemistry, and biology, scientists have crafted a special programmable platform to ...

Chirality—the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image—has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics. The phenomenon is sometimes called "handedness ...

(Courtesy: D Ayuso) Light that encodes chirality in time is efficient at driving chiral electronic currents inside the molecules, he tells Physics World. These currents then interact with the ...

The discovery is based on a unique aspect of the material where electrons can be separated by their chirality, or handedness ... achieved,” said Boston College Associate Professor of Physics Kenneth ...

By scrutinizing nonreciprocity in chiral superconductors and leveraging ... This breakthrough not only promises to have a profound impact on both physics and chemistry but also introduces a ...

Research is directed toward understanding and using the properties of condensed phases, ranging from experiments on the fundamental physics of phase transitions and chirality in liquid crystals, to ...

The discovery is based on a unique aspect of the material where electrons can be separated by their chirality, or handedness ... achieved,” said Boston College Associate Professor of Physics Kenneth ...