Condensed concepts

 Best wishes for the New Year! Here is a list of the posts that I wrote last year that I hope get the most interest. My review article on em...

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...

In recent posts, I discussed how "spin crossover" is a misnomer for the plethora of organometallic compounds that undergo spin-st...

Previously, I discussed how spin-crossover is a misnomer for organometallic compounds and proposed that an effective Hamiltonian to describe...

There are hundreds of organometallic compounds that are classified as spin-crossover compounds . As the temperature is varied the average sp...

Today I am giving a seminar on emergence at the University of Philippines Los Banos, in the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics. ...

 An important challenge required to understand the physical properties of materials that are chemically and structurally complex is to ascer...

 Collaborators and I just posted a preprint. Hidden Devil's staircase in a two-dimensional elastic model of spin crossover materials   ...

A range of isotope substitution experiments have been performed on spin-crossover materials.  Just like for other systems such as supercondu...

 Isotopic substitution has provided significant insights into molecular and solid-state physics. This involves the substitution of particula...

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

My colleagues and I just put a preprint on the arXiv. I am particularly proud of it.  As always, comments would be appreciated. Equivalence ...

Life is truly amazing! Life is beautiful! ...and it involves quantum many-body physics... There is a beautiful (short) review Heme: Fro...

The Ising model is a paradigm in both statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. Today for most theorists it is so familiar that so...

An important question concerning spin-crossover compounds concerns the origin and the magnitude of the interactions between the individual m...

I previously discussed how one of the simplest model effective Hamiltonians that can describe many physical properties of spin-crossover com...