Condensed concepts

Tony Leggett died last week. The New York Times has a nice obituary. One measure of his influence on me is that more than 20 posts on this ...

In February 1986, Bednorz and Müller made a stunning discovery: superconductivity at a temperature of 35 K in a doped copper oxide (cuprate)...

They are anisotropic marginal Fermi liquids. A commenter on my recent AI blog post mentioned the following preprint, with a very different p...

Phase diagrams have been ubiquitous in materials science for decades. They show what states of matter are thermodynamically stable depending...

Superconductivity beautifully illustrates the characteristics of emergent properties. Novelty.  Distinct properties of the superconducting s...

One of the most basic ideas in science is the controlled experiment. A single "independent" variable is changed while all others a...

About twenty-five years ago I became interested in how the Fermi surface of the metallic state of organic charge-transfer salts could be map...

 At a recent meeting of the condensed matter theory group at UQ we watched the first half of a Harvard (online) seminar that Steve Kivelson ...

For an experimentalist one of the "easiest" quantities to measure for a metal is the electrical resistivity. Yet, for a many-body ...

Mean- field theory (self-consistent field theory) is incredibly valuable. It  gives significant insights into what is possible with a partic...

This is some draft text for Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction.  Feedback appreciated. A big change in condensed m...