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![A laser creates pairs of positive and negative charges bound together (large blue and red spheres) in a device made of three atomically thin layers (sheets of metallic red and green spheres). The charge pairs change the properties of the laser beam (red).](/-/media/bes/images/highlights/2024/Zhou-Highlight.png?h=508&w=553&la=en&hash=400DA64A11E44604A3BD91CFAF600636321B67FDD1570C7E1345474849C8D69F)
The Future of Telecom Is Atomically Thin
By using a small number of photons to process information, two-dimensional quantum materials can lead to secure, energy-efficient communications.
![Researchers combined high magnetic fields with X-ray scattering to reveal the connection between superconducting vortices (black circles), charge density waves (red wiggles), and spin density waves (blue wiggles) in a cuprate superconductor.](/-/media/bes/mse/images/highlights/2024/High-Temp.png?h=301&w=624&la=en&hash=877F42657C249B0924F734C345FC839D4AA0AA49A5D14BCB51DFA1635ED6902B)
What Makes High Temperature Superconductivity Possible? Researchers Get Closer to a Unified Theory
Scientists discover that superconductivity in copper-based materials is linked with fluctuations of ordered electric charge and mobility of vortex matter.