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Generating structured foam via flowing through a wire array
Efficient manufacturing methods could unlock foams with tailored, anisotropic properties. Conventional foam production methods rely on the self-arrangement of bubbles, typically leading to isotropic materials, or involve intricate additive layering processes. This study presents a simple, passive technique to modify the foam structure. A set of thin parallel wires ...
PSI electronics apprentices once again perform very successfully at the SwissSkills Championships 2025
At the biennial SwissSkills Championships for young professionals, which took place in Bern from 17 to 21 September 2025, four of our former and current electronics apprentices demonstrated their exceptionally strong skills with great success in two different competition categories.
PSI2025 Workshop on the ‘Physics of fundamental Symmetries and Interactions’
From September 7-12, 2025, more than 170 participants from 20 countries met for the PSI2025 workshop, the 7th edition in the series.
Discovery of Nodal-Line Superconductivity in Chiral Crystals
Chiral crystals, whose key feature is the structural handedness, host exotic quantum phenomena driven by the interplay of band topology, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and electronic correlations. Due to the limited availability of suitable chiral-crystal materials, their unconventional superconductivity (SC) remains largely unexplored.
Here, the discovery ...
Ferroaxial density wave from intertwined charge and orbital order in rare-earth tritellurides
The discovery of the axial amplitude mode—commonly referred to as the Higgs mode—in charge density wave systems, such as rare-earth tritellurides, indicates the presence of a hidden order. A theoretical study proposed that this axial Higgs mode arises from a hidden orbital texture of the charge density wave, which produces a ferroaxial charge order.
However, experimental evidence ...
WOPM2025 at PSI - Workshop on optically-pumped magnetometers
From August 6 to 8, the 2025 workshop on 'Optically-Pumped Magnetometers' took place at PSI with a full day of Summer School lectures, followed by scientific sessions attended by 145 researchers from institutions worldwide.
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Kalamara A, Stamatelatos IE, Stefanopoulos KL, Kalef-Ezra JA, Georgakilas AG, Stewart RD, et al.
A dosimetric and biological model for Neutron Capture Therapy (NCT) experiments
Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 2025: 112233 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2025.112233
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Hernández J A, Eberharter A A, Schuler M, Lass J, Mazzone D G, Sibille R, et al.
Field-induced magnon decay, magnon shadows, and rotonlike excitations in the honeycomb antiferromagnet YbBr3
Physical Review Letters. 2025; 135(14): 146701 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/q29r-8x1m
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Thilakan KK, Ghorai S, Liu W, Häggström L, Lindgren F, Pomjakushin V, et al.
Revealing complex magnetic interactions in Fe2P-based compounds: a study using Mössbauer spectroscopy and neutron diffraction
Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2025; 13(36): 30128-30139. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ta03047a
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Graham JN, Islam SS, Sazgari V, Li Y, Deng H, Janka G, et al.
Pressure induced transition from chiral charge order to time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconducting state in Nb-doped CsV3Sb5
Communications Physics. 2025; 8(1): 318 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-025-02235-6
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