Light has always been described as an elegant partnership of electric and magnetic fields, yet for nearly two centuries physicists treated the magnetic side as a quiet background player. New ...
Physicists have for the first time observed light drifting sideways in discrete, quantized steps, reproducing a quantum Hall ...
Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s ...
Scientists report a new method that achieves for the first time valley polarization in centrosymmetric bulk materials in a non-material-specific way. This 'universal technique' may have major ...
Jefferson Lab's Compton polarimeter laser system, used to measure the parallel spin of electrons, is aligned during the Calcium Radius Experiment at Jefferson Lab. NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Scientists are ...