Graphene-based two-dimensional van der Waals Josephson junctions with superconductors are hopeful for realizing versatile quantum devices. However, research on the Ising in atomic-layer transition metal dichalcogenides, whose superconductivity is resilient to strong in-plane magnetic fields, has remained elusive. Here scanning tunneling microscopy study of single-layer (SL) NbSe2 island and its...

A new demonstration of a famous thought experiment has coaxed classical 16 µg cluster atoms to behave like quantum object.

This paper is devoted to the description of the general relationships between microscopic and macroscopic mechanical quantities in non-linear mechanics. From a thermodynamical viewpoint, it is only necessary to know the two macroscopic potentials (macroscopic free energy and macroscopic potential of dissipation) to describe the state of the body and its quasistatic evolution. These global poten...

Inactivation of many ion channels occurs through largely voltage-independent transitions to an inactivated state from the open state or from other states in the pathway leading to opening of the channel. Because this form of inactivation is state-dependent rather than voltage-dependent, it cannot be described by the standard Hodgkin-Huxley formalism used in virtually all modeling studies of neu...

We investigate experimentally one of the main features of a quantum fluid constituted by exciton polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity, that is, quantum degeneracy of a macroscopic fraction of the particles. We show that resonant pumping allows us to create a macroscopic population of polaritons in one quantum state. Furthermore, we demonstrate that parametric polariton scattering results i...

We reveal a novel macroscopic quantum phenomenon induced by a magnetic field. It corresponds to the non-integer quantization of the superfluid density in a superconductor with gap nodes due to the generation of confined fieldinduced density waves (CFIDW) over a portion of the Fermi surface (FS). The Landau numbers L are not sufficient to index these macroscopic quantum states and new quanrum nu...