Phase change memory has a lot to recommend it as ... Remember, memory fundamentally works by creating a measurable state we can label as a 0 or a 1 (on or off). The ability to create crystal ...

Figure 1: Singular phase and topologically protected darkness ... of reflected light intensity but also extremely fast phase changes, which can be useful for optical sensing.

After decades of looking, researchers have seen a string of atoms go through a 1D phase change so elusive that it could only happen inside a quantum simulator. “One motivation [for our ...