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

This phenomenon, when a single spin flip sort of splits into two halves ... forms the foundation of the Standard Model of particle physics. Similarly, the theory of quantum pyrochlore magnets ...

As the researchers report in the journal Nature Physics, they were able to couple two qubits and bring about a controlled flip of one of their spins, depending on the state of the other's spin ...

Progress in solid-state physics tends to occur in increments rather ... but then Kravchenko and his collaborators switched off the spin. All electrons have a spin associated with them, but ...

The potential for using spin in practical applications has already been realized in a number of different fields (the award of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg ...