Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

Natural crystals fascinate with their vibrant colors, their nearly flawless appearance and their manifold symmetrical forms.

The research team has identified atacamite as a material with magnetocaloric properties. Natural crystals have long ...

Magnetic-superconducting hybrid systems are key to unlocking topological superconductivity, a state that could host Majorana ...

All quarks and leptons – such as electrons and muons – have a magnetic moment due to their intrinsic angular momentum or “spin”. Quantum theory dictates that the magnetic moment is related to the spin ...

The magnetic moment of Fe increased by 1.44-fold and Ir by 1.54-fold at 11 at% Ir concentration compared to that at 1 at% Ir ...

If the predicted magnetic moment doesn’t match up with what’s seen in experiments, the discrepancy could be a clue that there are undiscovered virtual particles at play.

The team determined the electron magnetic moment to 0.13 parts per trillion, or 0.000000000013 percent. A measurement that exacting is a complicated task.

After six years of collecting data, the muon g-2 experiment released its results and could chart a new path for particle physics.

The magnetic moment is the tendency of a particle to align with a magnetic field and when it comes to the fundamental particles, this is something that the standard model predicts pretty accurately.

However, because electrons possess both a quantum spin and a magnetic moment, reversing time — and, therefore, the direction of travel — flips the spin, meaning the symmetry is broken.