nanoscale views

Over the holiday weekend, we had a paper come out in which we report the results of measuring charge shot noise  (see here also) in a stra...

I had mentioned about 6 weeks ago that my department at Rice is searching in the quantum/AMO space for experiment and theory.   Now I want t...

I will be sending some emails shortly, but I wanted to point out postdoctoral opportunities here at Rice University. The Smalley-Curl Instit...

I think it's safe to say that anyone involved in scientific publishing will tell you that it's a mess and the trends are worrisome. ...

It's been a while since I've written a post about the ways of academia, so I thought it might be time, though it's not exactly g...

Over the past couple of weeks (and more) I have found a number of things to read that I wanted to pass on.  First, if you'd like a break...

Particularly in these post-pandemic, climate-change-addled, zoom-enabled times, I appreciate the argument that it's always worth asking,...

As you undoubtedly know, the 2023 Nobel in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini , Ferenc Krausz , and Anne L'Huillier , for the d...

Trying to spread the word: The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in Houston, Texas invites applications for two tenure...

 It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to attend both the KITP conference and the...

This week is the 2023 DOE experimental condensed matter physics PI meeting - in the past I’ve written up highlights of these here ( 2021 ), ...

Early in my career, I was incredibly fortunate to be awarded a David and Lucille Packard Foundation fellowship, and this week I attended th...

One thing that physics and mechanical engineering students learn early on is that there are often analogies between charge flow and heat flo...

As we bid apparent farewell to LK99, it's important to note that several other pretty exciting things have been happening in the condens...

One of the remarkable aspects of condensed matter physics is the idea of emergent quasiparticles , where through the interactions of many un...

The recent excitement about the alleged high temperature superconductor "LK99" has introduced some in the public to the idea of a ...

Given the present interest, let's talk about what kind of properties one wants in a superconductor, as some people on social media seem ...

This week, condensed matter physics has been getting far more broad public attention than usual, and while in the abstract I like our discip...

I saw " Oppenheimer " today.  Spoiler warning, I suppose, though I think we all know how this story ends.  Just in case you were w...

For the first time in a couple of decades, I was visiting the Aspen Center for Physics , which is always a fun, intellectually stimulating e...