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Unnecessary quantum criticality in SU(3) kagome magnets

Artistic depiction of cyan superfluid wave in layered superconductor.
Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero with Millie Dresselhaus
What Would Millie Do?

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From Fractionalization to Chiral Topological Superconductivity in Flat Chern Band

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Quantum weight: A fundamental property of quantum many-body systems

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Physicists measure quantum geometry for first time

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MIT physicists predict exotic form of matter with potential for quantum computing

Graphic illustrating electronic interactions inside a quantum material.
Physicists discover new way to make strange metal

Three small purple spheres are on left, and one large purple sphere is on right. A bending stream of energy is between them. Graphene layers are in the background.
Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds

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New MIT.nano equipment to accelerate innovation in “tough tech” sectors

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Celebrating five years of MIT.nano

Between layers of graphene are 4 paired, shiny electrons. 2 are blue and 2 are red, and whisps of glowing energy connect them together. They have rings like Saturn, and these rings move them clockwise or counter-clockwise.
From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges

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MIT physicists turn pencil lead into “gold”

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Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

Schematic of a superconducting diode.
Team creates simple superconducting device that could dramatically cut energy use in computing, among other important applications.

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Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity

The flat tips of two diamonds compress an atomically thin material.
International Team Reports Powerful Tool for Studying, Tuning Atomically Thin Materials

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Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”

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Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in “magic-angle” graphene

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Seven from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2022

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero delivers 2022 Dresselhaus Lecture on the magic of moiré quantum matter

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Liang Fu and Patrick Lee receive Larkin Awards in Theoretical Physics

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Physicists find direct evidence of strong electron correlation in a 2D material for the first time