Tag Archives: condensed matter physics
A tribute to rubidium
And to Paul Feyerabend Continue reading
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Tagged atomic clocks, Bose-Einstein condensate, condensed matter physics, materials science, Paul Feyerabend, rubidium, spectral lines
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A tale of vortices, skyrmions, paths and shapes
There are many types of superconductors. Some of them can be explained by an early theory of superconductivity called Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory. In these materials, vibrations in the atomic lattice force the electrons in the material to overcome their mutual … Continue reading
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Tagged anyons, BCS theory, chiral magnets, condensed matter physics, David Thouless, Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, materials science, Nanyang Technical University, orbital angular momentum, p-wave superconductor, path dependency, phase transition, quantum computers, quasiparticles, Rashba-Edelstein effect, s-wave superconductor, skyrmion-vortex coupling, skyrmions, solid state physics, superconductors, supercurrent, topological excitations, topology, Vijay Shenoy
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Getting started on superconductivity
After the hoopla surrounding and attention on particle physics subsided, I realized that I’d been riding a speeding wagon all the time. All I’d done is used the lead-up to (the search for the Higgs boson) and the climax itself … Continue reading
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Tagged condensed matter physics, Cooper pairs, Electromagnetism, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Large Hadron Collider, Leon Cooper, Lorentz force, superconductivity
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