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A team of materials scientists and physicists from the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has discovered a way to confine the behavior of electrons by using extremely high magnetic fields. The team’s results are published in the …

For the first time, physicists have discovered that in an extremely high magnetic field ‘massless’ Dirac electrons can acquire a mass. A false-color high-resolution transmission electron microscopy image of the zirconium pentatelluride (ZrTe5) with an inset selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern, showing the layer normal along the b axis. …

A team of physicists from the University of Birmingham and the University of Bath has identified a method to visualize, over a millionth of a billionth of a second, the initial quantum behavior of electrons on a surface. The scanning tunneling microscope used to inject electrons into a silicon surface. …