nanoscale views

A blog about condensed matter and nanoscale physics. Why should high energy and astro folks have all the fun?

Monday, March 09, 2026

RIP Tony Leggett

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It's been an extremely busy time, and there are all kinds of distressing events afoot.  Talking about new science results or the funding...
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Sunday, February 22, 2026

AI/ML, multiscale modeling, and emergence

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I've been attending a lot of talks lately about AI/machine learning and multiscale modeling for materials design and control.  This is a...
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Friday, February 13, 2026

Updates: The US government and STEM research

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Now that we're 6 weeks into the new year, I think it's worth it to do an incomplete roundup of where we are on US federal support of...
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Sunday, February 08, 2026

Data centers in space make no sense to me

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There seems to be a huge push lately in the tech world for the idea of placing data centers in space .  This is not just coming from Musk vi...
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Sunday, February 01, 2026

What is the Aharonov-Bohm effect?

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After seeing this latest extremely good video from Veritasium , and looking back through my posts, I realized that while I've referenced...
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Sunday, January 25, 2026

What is superconductivity?

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A friend pointed out that, while I've written many posts that have to do with superconductivity , I've never really done a concept p...
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Sunday, January 11, 2026

What is the Kondo effect?

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The Kondo effect is a neat piece of physics, an archetype of a problem involving strong electronic correlations and entanglement, with a lo...
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Douglas Natelson
I am a physics professor at Rice University. My group uses nanoscale tools to address open questions in condensed matter physics, the study of the remarkable emergent properties of materials. Views expressed here are my own; they do not represent the views of my employer or any other entity.
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