nanoscale views

Surfacing from being submerged by other responsibilities (including jury duty today), I wanted to point out two paper. This preprint (based...

An administrative role I've taken on for the last month that will run through September has been eating quite a bit of my time, but I wa...

In thinking about presenting physics to a lay audience, I think we haven't sufficiently emphasized what we mean by particles or objects ...

On a recommendation, I just finished reading The Cold Wars:  A History of Superconductivity , by Jean Matricon and Georges Waysand.  This bo...

This isn't physics, but it's still something that might be of interest to some readers.  There is still a great deal of mystery amon...

An impressive paper was just published in Nature , in which atomically precisely fabricated structures in Si were used as an analog model o...

This week a paper was published in Nature  about the observation via Raman scattering of a particular excitation in the charge density wave...

Here are some links from the past week: I spent a big portion of this week attending Spin Caloritronics XI at scenic UIUC, for my first in-...

When physicists talk about the electronic properties of solids, we often talk about "band theory".  I've written a bit about t...

I'm working on a physics post about flat bands, but in the meantime I thought I would appeal to the greater community.  Our physics and ...

The multiverse (in a cartoonish version of the many-words interpretation of quantum mechanics sense - see here for a more in-depth writeup ...

 I will be posting more about science very soon, but today I'm participating in a science communications symposium here in the Wiess Sch...

It's been a while since the APS meeting, with many things going on that have made catching up here a challenge.  Here are some recent it...

I gave my contributed talk this (Fri) morning, and I will head to the airport shortly, so this is the end of my March Meeting blogging.  A f...

Highlights are brief today, because I spent more of my time seeing talks from my group and chatting with people: Started the day with the Ke...

It was a busy day today, and I saw a lot of talks, some live and in person, some live via zoom, and some prerecorded.  Some highlights: Star...

My first impressions of this year's March Meeting are a bit limited, since I flew today and didn't make it to the convention center ...

I will actually be attending the 2022 March APS Meeting in Chicago next week, so look for posting to pick up as I try to be good about my an...

Here are three papers that may briefly divert you from doomscrolling about the horrific situation in Ukraine. This paper from the Feb 11 is...

My busiest time of the year continues.  A few interesting links: I'm sure you've heard of wordle .  There are some other free games ...