In a study that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully measured the ...
Measuring zero: scientists have lowered the previous upper limit of the neutron’s electric dipole moment by 40%. (Courtesy: IOP Publishing) For more than 60 years, physicists have been searching for a ...
The key physical property of multiferroic materials is the existence of a coupling between magnetism and polarization. The origin and manifestations of magnetoelectricity can be very different in the ...
A new attempt to detect the neutron’s electric dipole moment tightens the constraints on theories of symmetry breaking in the early Universe. Magnetic measurers. Researchers measured the electric ...
Electric dipole polarizability quantifies the ease with which an atom’s or molecule’s electron cloud can be distorted by an external electric field, giving rise to an induced dipole moment. This ...