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    Abstract illustration of a checkerboard atomic lattice beneath the fine tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope
    Substrate · Quantum materials

    Atomic defects pin electrons in place inside a two-dimensional metal

    Microscopy reveals two localised electronic states hiding among a metal's mobile electrons, an electronic counterpart to an effect already achieved with light.

    Science · 22 October 2026
    Abstract illustration of a crystal lattice with small arrows representing electron spins pointing in alternating directions, with a wave rippling through them
    Substrate · Altermagnetic spin waves

    X-rays reveal handed spin waves in manganese telluride, a candidate altermagnet

    Polarised X-ray scattering uncovers a magnetic ripple with a definite twist, whose spin polarisation varies with momentum in line with the material's symmetry.

    Science · 29 October 2026

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