Laser pulses bring order to a quantum material’s tiny electrical regions

October 15, 2026 · 5:00 pm 1 sources

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• Laser pulses bring order to a quantum material's tiny electrical regions
  Phys.org · October 15, 2026 17:00
  Physicists at Auburn University have used flashes of laser light to bring order to tiny electrically charged "islands" inside a crystal. The discovery helps answer a decades-old question about how the material organizes itself and shows how light could be used to control its behavior—a step toward…