nanoscale views

Following on from graphene, there has been enormous interest in other layered materials for the last few years, such as transition metal dic...

Continuing into day 2 of our workshop: Bryce Gadway of the University of Illinois spoke about using cold atoms in an optical lattice to ...

Our workshop was fun and interesting.   There are multiple ways to drive physical systems out of equilibrium - you can take some system and...

As I'd advertised, the Rice Center for Quantum Materials is hosting a two-day workshop on interacting quantum systems driven out of eq...

I'd like to ask my readers that own Quantum Design PPMS or MPMS instruments for help regarding a technical glitch.  My aging PPMS super...

The so-called III-V semiconductors, compounds that combine a group III element (Al, Ga, In) and a group V element (N, As, P, Sb), are main...

For the last 2.5 days I've been at the PQI2016:  Quantum Challenges symposium.  It's been a very fun meeting, bringing together tal...

I had a whole post written about laser weapons, and then the announcement came out about trying to build laser-launched interstellar probes,...

Once upon a time I wrote a post about whiskey stones, rocks that you cool down and then place into your drink to chill your Scotch without ...

The Rice Center for Quantum Materials will be hosting a workshop, "Interacting Quantum Systems Driven Out of Equilibrium", at Rice...

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...