News tagged with condensed matter theory

New physics theory prize names first recipient

Pioneering theorist and Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson has been named the first recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Anderson will receive a $10,000 honorarium ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicists to study attractive and repulsive forces crucial in designing nano-machines

The Casimir force, also known as the Casimir effect, is typified by the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates. Today, this force has become an interdisciplinary ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3




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Energy in action: For two molecules on blind date, new method predicts potential for attraction or repulsion

(Phys.org) -- Krzysztof Szalewicz, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware, and Rafal Podeszwa of the University of Silesia Institute of Chemistry in Poland have developed and validated ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A physicist and an inventor

As a boy growing up in Croatia, Marin Soljacic wanted to be an inventor. But he wasn’t interested only in designing new products; he wanted to discover physical phenomena that would enable completely ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Superconducting strip could become an ultra-low-voltage sensor

Researchers studying a superconducting strip observed an intermittent motion of magnetic flux which carries vortices inside the regularly spaced weak conducting regions carved into the superconducting material. These vortices ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Astrophysicists uncover secret origin of brown dwarfs

The origin of brown dwarfs is one of the great unsolved mysteries facing astrophysicists today. In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western’s Shantanu Basu and University of Vienna’s Eduard ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When dark energy turned on (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some six billion light years distant, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (19) | comments 68 | with audio podcast

Using galaxies as yardsticks: Astronomy Professor builds a 3-D map of universe

Daniel Eisenstein is investigating the universe, using galaxies as his ruler, seeking to understand the cosmos’ large-scale structure and confirm theories about the dark energy that drives its expansion.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Why we've got the cosmological constant all wrong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some scientists call the cosmological constant the "worst prediction of physics." And when today’s theories give an estimated value that is about 120 orders of magnitude larger than the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 152 | with audio podcast feature

A traffic jam of quantum particles

(PhysOrg.com) -- German scientists discover surprising transport phenomena in ultracold quantum many body systems.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists image the charge distribution within a single molecule for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists were able to measure for the first time how charge is distributed within a single molecule. This achievement will enable fundamental scientific insights into single-molecule ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Astrophysicist team suggests axions could explain dearth of lithium-7 in dark matter theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand how everything came to be as it appears today, astrophysicists have put together theories that seek to explain how events transpired from the time of the Big Bang, ...

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created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 37 | with audio podcast report


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