Condensed concepts

At last weeks cake meeting (condensed matter group meeting/journal club) I gave a talk about an interesting recent paper Incommensurate corr...

This beautiful picture is on the cover of A Chemist's guide to Valence Bond Theory by Shaik and Hiberty. It summarises the main idea i...

In the interesting physics colloquium that Marcelo Gleiser gave on friday at UQ he used the Escher print above to illustrate CP symmetry i...

I just read a very interesting Nature paper, which appeared last month. Quantum spin liquid emerging in two-dimensional correlated Dirac fer...

Today is Ada Lovelace day [I thank Ben Powell for bringing this to my attention] and so I asked myself, "Which woman has made the grea...

In most molecules when you different vibrational modes have the highest frequency in the electronic ground state. Another way of looking at ...

How big a Hilbert space do I need to describe the electronic properties of a molecule? Specifically, suppose in the molecule there are N val...

At UQ the Faculty of Science has an Advanced Study Program , which gets gifted (and hopefully highly motivated!) undergraduates involved in ...

Hopefully this will be the first of several posts related to valence bond theory. I attach a nice treatment of a simple Heisenberg model fo...