Condensed matter physics is a branch of physics that studies the physical properties of condensed phases of matter, such as solids and liquids. This field is particularly interested in understanding behaviors that emerge from the complex interactions of many atoms or molecules. Condensed matter physics explores a wide array of phenomena, including superconductivity, magnetism, quantum mechanical behavior at the macroscopic scale, and the behavior of electrons in various materials. It uses both theoretical methods, like quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, and experimental techniques, such as electron microscopy and spectroscopy, to study and manipulate these properties. The insights gained from condensed matter physics have practical applications in developing new materials and technologies, including semiconductors, magnetic and optical devices.
Researchers have discovered strain-induced long-range charge-density-wave order in a high-temperature superconductor, illuminating the underlying mechanisms. Superconductors are materials capable of conducting electricity without any resistance…
Researchers have unveiled the dynamical nature of emergent magnetic monopoles in real magnets for the first time. Magnetic monopoles are elementary particles with isolated magnetic…
It is easy to be optimistic about hydrogen as an ideal fuel. It is much more difficult to come up with a solution to an…
New possibilities in quantum technology and condensed matter physics opened by noble gas atoms confined between graphene layers. For the first time, researchers have successfully…
In 1960, Luttinger proposed a universal principle connecting the total capacity of a system for particles with its response to low-energy excitations. Although easily confirmed…
A team of physicists at the University of Cologne has solved a long-standing problem of condensed matter physics: they have directly observed the Kondo effect…
Recent research led by Aavishkar Patel from the Flatiron Institute has uncovered a mechanism that sheds light on the peculiar behavior of strange metals, one…
Researchers have discovered a new state of matter, which they call a “bosonic correlated insulator,” a crystalline assembly of bosonic particles, specifically excitons. Take a…
Scientists discover that triggering superconductivity with a flash of light involves the same fundamental physics that are at work in the more stable states needed…
The result may open doors to several lines of research in particle physics and beyond. A hybrid matter–antimatter helium atom containing an antiproton, the proton’s…
New Insight Into Unconventional Superconductivity Signatures for a novel electronic phase that enables charge to flow spontaneously in loops have been observed in a kagome…
Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Southampton, U.K., used all-optical methods to create an artificial lattice whose nodes house polaritons — quasiparticles that are half-light…
A new phase of matter, thought to be understandable only using quantum physics, can be studied with far simpler classical methods. Researchers from the University…
Philip Warren Anderson, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the postwar era, died Sunday, March 29, at Princeton Windrows, age 96. Anderson was the…
Illinois and SLAC researchers use a new technique. One of the greatest mysteries in condensed matter physics is the exact relationship between charge order and…
A newly published study reveals that the Third Law of Thermodynamics can be restored in thin films of the magnetic material spin ice. Thin films…
While using an instrument to measure the detailed superconducting gap structure of the ferropnictide superconductor BaFe2(As0.7P0.3)2, physicists discovered experimental evidence that iron-based superconductors fall into…
Superconductivity, a phenomenon that works only at temperatures close to absolute zero, has been proven to work at higher temperatures, as much as 70 kelvin…