In one sentence: The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon in which an ordinary electric current flowing through a non-magnetic conductor with strong spin-orbit coupling creates a sideways spin current, ...

Researchers at the Würzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have succeeded in transferring the topological quantum Hall and spin Hall effects to a hybrid light-matter system by harnessing ...

The quantum Hall effect, a fundamental effect in quantum mechanics, not only generates an electric but also a magnetic current. It arises from the motion of electrons on an orbit around the nuclei of ...

The research team achieved the hybrid spin-orbit coupling-driven optical spin Hall effect at room temperature for the first time through an organic microcavity structure. The device is a Fabry–Perot ...

When quantum spins interact, they can produce collective behaviors that defy long-standing expectations. Researchers have now shown that the Kondo effect behaves very differently depending on spin ...

A spin qubit, in which quantum information is encoded in the spin state of an electron, is one of the most promising ...

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Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) constitute a platform to explore various quantum effects. Their size-dependent colors are essentially a naked-eye, ambient-condition visualization of the quantum ...

Topological phases are unusual states of matter that give rise to properties protected by a material's overall structure (i.e., "topology"), as opposed to microscopic details. These phases are of ...