This is a compilation of posts related to some basic concepts of the physics of materials and nanoscale physics. I realized the other day that I hadn't updated this since 2019, and therefore a substantial audience may not have seen these. Wikipedia's physics entries have improved greatly over the years, but hopefully these are a complement that's useful to students and maybe some science writers. Please let me know if there are other topics that you think would be important to include.
What is temperature?What is chemical potential?
What is mass?
Fundamental units and condensed matter
What are quasiparticles?
Quasiparticles and what is "real"
What is effective mass?
What is a phonon?
What is a plasmon?
What are magnons?
What are skyrmions?
What are excitons?
What is quantum coherence?
What are universal conductance fluctuations?
What is a quantum point contact? What is quantized conductance?
What is tunneling?
What are steric interactions?
(effectively) What is the normal force?
What is effective mass?
What is a phonon?
What is a plasmon?
What are magnons?
What are skyrmions?
What are excitons?
What is quantum coherence?
What are universal conductance fluctuations?
What is a quantum point contact? What is quantized conductance?
What is tunneling?
What are steric interactions?
(effectively) What is the normal force?
What is turbulence?
(effectively) What is capillary action?
What are liquid crystals?
What is a phase of matter?
About phase transitions....
(effectively) What is mean-field theory?
(effectively) What is capillary action?
What are liquid crystals?
What is a phase of matter?
About phase transitions....
(effectively) What is mean-field theory?
What is disorder, to condensed matter physicists?
What is band theory?
What is a "valley"?
What is band theory?
What is a "valley"?
What are quantum oscillations?
What is a metal?
What is a bad metal? What is a strange metal?
What is a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid?
What is a crystal?
What is a metal?
What is a bad metal? What is a strange metal?
What is a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid?
What is a crystal?
(effectively) What is quantum geometry?
What is the thermal Hall effect?
About graphene, and more about graphene
Why twisting materials is interesting
About noise, part one, part two (thermal noise), part three (shot noise), part four (1/f noise)
What is inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy?
What is demagnetization cooling?
About memristors....
What is thermoelectricity?
What are "hot" electrons?
What is a functional? (see also this)
What is density functional theory? Part 2 Part 3
What are the Kramers-Kronig relations?
What is a metamaterial?
What is a metasurface?
What is the Casimir effect?
About exponential decay laws
About hybridization
About Fermi's Golden Rule
About graphene, and more about graphene
Why twisting materials is interesting
About noise, part one, part two (thermal noise), part three (shot noise), part four (1/f noise)
What is inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy?
What is demagnetization cooling?
About memristors....
What is thermoelectricity?
What are "hot" electrons?
What is a functional? (see also this)
What is density functional theory? Part 2 Part 3
What are the Kramers-Kronig relations?
What is a metamaterial?
What is a metasurface?
What is the Casimir effect?
About exponential decay laws
About hybridization
About Fermi's Golden Rule
1 comment:
A few other faves of mine that you didn’t mention: neuromorphic computing, quasicrystals, physics of vision, stat mech of money, physics of tofu frying, why soft matter is hard, why hard matter can be soft, and of course, the flexural rigidity of pizza.
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