Learn more Sometimes the simplest toys are the most enjoyable, and anyone who grew up in the '70s or later likely remembers the thrill of one of the simplest: the Sit 'n Spin. If I hadn't been ...

how spin was discovered in the 1920 Stern Gerlach experiment. Eight years later, the pair spin-orbit interaction (or spin-orbit coupling) was made explicit by Gregory Breit in 1928 and then found ...

Spin vectors of a meron pair. Unlike the rapidly oscillating electric and magnetic fields of the surface plasmon polariton underlying this spin texture, the texture itself is stable in time ...