Antimony is widely used in the production of materials for electronics, as well as metal alloys resistant to corrosion and ...

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The final optical contrast between crystal and glass, as observed in the refractive index, only forms after strong cooling in the supercooled liquid (in liquid antimony below the melting temperature), ...

"We investigated antimony as an elemental model system for phase change materials. It has a similar structure to germanium telluride, but consists of only one type of atom," says Professor Schnohr.

The exotic material is built from atomic planes composed of Vanadium atoms arranged on a so-called kagome lattice—a pattern of interlaced triangles and hexagons—stacked on top of one another, with ...

But antimony’s spin structure creates a buffer ... This is why quantum information is so fragile,” Yu said. This “atomic cat” lives inside a silicon quantum chip, the most widely used ...