Condensed concepts

One of the many beauties of condensed matter physics is that it can reveal and illuminate how two systems or phenomena that at first appear ...

Crystals of large molecules exhibit diverse structures. In other words, the geometric arrangements of the molecules relative to one another ...

In previous posts, I discussed how "spin-crossover" material is a misnomer because many of these materials do not undergo crossov...

Spin ices are magnetic materials in which geometrically frustrated magnetic interactions between the spins prevent long-range magnetic orde...

I was very sad when last week I learned of the death of Anthony Jacko, a former member of the Condensed Matter Theory group at UQ. He was on...

My colleagues and I recently posted a preprint C3 symmetry breaking metal-insulator transitions near a flat band in the half-filled Hubbard ...

I was delighted to hear of the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2021 . The committee continues to surprise us. I did not make any pre...

Condensed matter physics is driven by fashion (too much). Is it fair to say that the latest fashion is the vanadium-based kagome metals  AV3...

 An important scientific idea is that simple rules can produce complex behaviour. In condensed matter theory, model Hamiltonians with just a...

Condensed matter physics aims to understand different and describe states of matter. Each state (phase) is associated with a particular type...

Since the discovery of the iron-based superconductors, it has become clear that the combination of multiple orbitals and strong correlations...

An important idea in condensed matter physics, both soft and hard, is that the rich phenomena seen in materials that are chemically and/or s...

What kind of theory paper to I enjoy? Here are some personal tastes - "simple" enough I can understand it - physical insight -...

Two of my UQ colleagues have just finished a nice paper: Spin-state ice in geometrically frustrated spin-crossover materials  Jace Cruddas...

What is spin ice ? What its definitive and experimental signatures? A good place to start is the lucid discussion by Roderich Moessner and...