Articles tagged with "Condensed Matter Physics"

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Plugging the power leak for fusion reactions

August 6, 2020
Scientists have found a novel way to prevent pesky magnetic bubbles in plasma from interfering with fusion reactions - delivering a potential way to improve the performance of fusion energy...

Nobel physics prize awarded for cosmology and exoplanet discovery

October 8, 2019
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to James Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting...

Physicists edge closer to superconductivity at room temperature

May 24, 2019
An international research team has claimed to have raised the temperature at which superconductivity occurs, to around 23°C. The achievement, observed in lanthanum superhydrides under high pressure by scientists at...

Liquid metal turned to plasma

March 13, 2019
Liquid metal has been turned to plasma for the first time, with applications for attaining fusion energy.Using high temperatures and high-density conditions, University of Rochester scientists in New York cooled...

Moving metal promises dynamic circuits

August 15, 2016
Scientists have developed self-propelling liquid metals that could be used for future electronic circuits.

New form of light discovered

August 9, 2016
Scientists have created a new form of light after they were able to bind light to a single electron.

Solving the vanadium dioxide conundrum

December 18, 2014
Researchers have shed new light on a long standing conundrum in condensed-matter physics by combining electron microscopy and laser spectroscopy in novel ways.Vanadium dioxide has intrigued the scientific community since...

New state of matter produced by LHC

January 21, 2013
Collisions between protons and lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have produced a new type of matter known as colour-glass condensate.When particle beams interact at high speeds,...

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