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Deep within ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune, a newly predicted state of matter known as quasi-one-dimensional superionic carbon hydride exists under extreme pressure and temperature conditions. In this phase, the material occupies a middle ground between solids and liquids, featuring a stable crystalline framework paired with highly mobile secondary atoms.
#PlanetaryScience #Physics #MaterialScience #QuantumScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/ps04032601.html

The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be “superionic”

Sophisticated models predict that a quasi-one-dimensional superionic state of carbon hydride exists under the extreme pressures and temperatures found

Scientific Frontline 1d ago

Iron telluride (FeTe), a compound historically categorized as an ordinary magnetic metal, is intrinsically a #superconductor capable of conducting electricity without energy loss. This superconducting state is achieved by eliminating hidden excess iron atoms that previously disrupted the material's structural purity.
#Physics #MaterialScience #QuantumScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/phy04022601.html

Superconductivity switched on in material once thought only magnetic

Superconductivity — the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any energy loss to heat

Scientific Frontline Mar 26

The #Quantum Twisting Microscope (QTM) is a highly sensitive instrument capable of directly observing and mapping hidden electron-electron interactions within two-dimensional materials at room temperature.
#Physics #CondensedMatterPhysics #QuantumScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/phy03262601.html

Twisting Into Focus: A highly sensitive Quantum Microscope

A highly sensitive quantum microscope and used it to directly observe, for the first time at room temperature

N-gated Hacker News Mar 21

🥇 Oh, the Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing, now celebrates two pioneers of quantum science! 🧙‍♂️💡 But wait, what's this? A quest to access ACM's website feels like solving a quantum puzzle itself—thanks to the mighty #Cloudflare, blocking us mere mortals from basking in the glow of this news. 🔒💥
https://amturing.acm.org #TuringAward #QuantumScience #ACM #ComputingNews #HackerNews #ngated

A.M. Turing Award

The A.M. Turing Award, ACM's most prestigious technical award, is given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.

N-gated Hacker News Mar 18

🥳🎉 Congrats to the 2025 Turing Award winner for quantum information science! Too bad the real mystery here is how anyone will read about it when the website is locked tighter than a quantum computer's error correction. 🔒🔍👩‍💻
https://awards.acm.org/about/2025-turing #TuringAward #QuantumScience #ErrorCorrection #TechNews #Celebration #HackerNews #ngated

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard are the recipients of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing

Bennett, an American physicist at IBM Research, and Brassard, a Canadian computer scientist at the Université de Montréal, are widely recognized as founders of quantum information science, a field at the intersection of physics and computer science that treats quantum mechanical phenomena not merely as properties of matter, but as resources for processing and transmitting information. The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” carries a $1 million prize with financial support provided by Google, Inc. The award is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundations of computing.

Scientific Frontline Mar 17

A supersolid is an exotic #quantum state of matter that simultaneously exhibits the ordered, crystal-like spatial structure of a solid and the frictionless flow of a superfluid. Researchers have successfully generated this state at room temperature by engineering light-matter interactions within a nanoscale device.
#QuantumScience #MaterialScience #Nanotechnology #Photonics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/qs03172601.html

Scientists Create a New State of Matter at Room Temperature Using Light and Nanostructures

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter

Scientific Frontline Mar 17

Researchers have developed a novel material design that enables #superconductivity to operate at significantly higher temperatures while remaining resilient against strong magnetic fields by physically altering the surface on which the superconducting material rests.
#MaterialScience #QuantumScience #Physics #Nanotechnology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03172602.html

Superconductor advance could unlock ultra-energy-efficient electronics

Superconducting materials could play a crucial role in energy-efficient applications of the future.

Scientific Frontline Mar 9

Researchers have developed a method using engineered, randomized multipolar driving—or "targeted shaking"—to drastically slow down unwanted heating in superconducting #quantum processors, enabling the stabilization and observation of exotic quantum states.
#QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/qs03092601.html

Targeted Shaking Stabilizes Exotic Quantum States

Groundbreaking Research Findings in Quantum Simulation

Scientific Frontline Mar 7

A newly identified magnetic phase of matter found in the material cerium magnesium hexalluminate (CeMgAl11O19) that superficially mimics the properties of a #quantum spin liquid. While it appears disordered even at near-absolute zero, this lack of ordering stems from classical magnetic competition rather than quantum mechanical fluctuations.
#MaterialScience #QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03072601.html

Material previously thought to be quantum is actually new, nonquantum state of matter

Rice researchers discover cerium magnesium hexalluminate not quantum despite displaying characteristics of quantum spin liquid state

Scientific Frontline Mar 5

Scientists synthesized and characterized a single molecule with a half-Möbius electronic topology, representing the first experimental observation of electrons traveling through a structure in a previously unknown corkscrew-like pattern.
#ComputationalChemistry #QuantumScience #SolidStatePhysics #Physics #MolecularScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/phy03052601.html

Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing

For quantum computing, it is a concrete demonstration of a quantum simulation doing what it was designed to do