There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment ...

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model ...

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model ...

New publication in Nature Materials, an international team of researchers has developed groundbreaking artificial chains of the iconic ‘olympicene’ molecules to realize the antiferromagnetic (AF) spin ...

Researchers at Empa have taken a significant step toward practical quantum computing by creating and manipulating Heisenberg ...

Phase transitions, like water freezing into ice, are a familiar part of our world. But in quantum systems, they can behave ...

Breaking Bad actor Dean Norris remembers his final episode of the show, which is also the only one of them all with a perfect ...

We are now in the middle of the second wave of quantum capabilities, which heralds quantum computing, enhanced sensing ...

Empa researchers and their partners successfully for the first time realized a so-called one-dimensional alternating Heisenberg model with a ...

Quantum systems don’t just transition between phases—they do so in ways that defy classical intuition. A new experiment has ...

Because relative truth is what experience delivers, it would seem that the story ends there. Science attempts to tighten up relative truth through data, measurements, experiments, and findings that ...