nanoscale views

If you are interested in the US Department of Energy's take on the current status and trends in energy technology and related research, ...

We had an excellent colloquium here today from John Spencer , one of the investigators on the New Horizons mission to Pluto.   Amazing stuf...

I spent a big chunk of my last day at the meeting having conversations with a couple of my collaborators, but I did get to see a couple of i...

(Note that I'm leaving out the parts of the meeting where I did things like chat with friends and colleagues, and visit the trade show -...

Another eclectic bunch of talks today: There was a very interesting session this morning about coupling superconductors to semiconductor...

First, hat tip to Chad Orzel for this article , and ZapperZ for his .  While condensed matter physics is harder to describe to a general aud...

It's that time of year again, when a bit under 10,000 condensed matter/materials/polymer physicists gather in a meeting that is now 1.7...

The search for new superconductors has been going on for decades, because the potential promise of room temperature superconductors (with us...

Readers:  I suspect many of you are familiar with Google Scholar , Google's free approximation of what Thomson-Reuters offer for a fee....

The Washington Post ran this nice column by Alan Lightman the other day, where Lightman points out that the recent LIGO discovery is the r...

The physics of systems driven out of equilibrium remains a frontier topic, and as new techniques are enabled involving ultrafast lasers, exc...

There is a nice article at Nature  this past week talking about the possible impending end of Moore's Law .  The quick summary:  It...

As I go on some travel, here are some news items that looked interesting to me: Rumors are really heating up that LIGO has spotted grav...

As I've said, DFT proves that the electron density as a function of position contains basically  all  the information about the ground s...

So, DFT contains a deep truth:   Somehow just the electronic density as a function of position within a system in its lowest energy state co...

In previous posts, I've tried to introduce the idea that there can be "holistic" approaches to solving physics problems , and ...

This makes my public outreach efforts look lame by comparison.  Well done!

Working our way toward the biggest theory most people have never heard of , let's talk about functionals, using the non-rigorous languag...

Inspired by a recent post of Ross McKenzie, I thought it would be fun to try to write a popularly accessible piece about the enormously suc...

Sorry for the year-end lull in posting.  Work-related writing is taking a lot of my time right now, though I will be posting a few things so...