Deep, chewy, rich, digestible. A cracking good job by #ScienceJournalist Zack Savitsky.

''But the implications go beyond just building better superconductors. A theory that explains strange metals may force a fundamental rethinking of how electricity works in all materials. It might subsume the standard theory the way general relativity, with its curved spacetime, subsumed Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity—and prove just as unsettling. Strange metals are forcing physicists to ask whether the very idea of an electron, or any particle for that matter, is an oversimplification of what’s really going on. “The violation of the standard theory of solids in these strange metals is so dramatic—it’s in your face,” says Qimiao Si, a physicist at Rice University who collaborates with Paschen. “There’s no question there’s new physics.”''

#StrangeMetals
#conductivity
#electrons
#CondensedMatterPhysics

https://www.science.org/content/article/strange-metals-point-whole-new-way-understand-electricity

We just submitted the first QUINTO draft of paper to a journal. Let's see what the editors and reviewers think.

The paper is about fractional quantum Hall states in atomic arrays. Here is the popular summary we submitted alongside:

"When atoms are arranged in a regular, dense array, their response to light can change drastically. The photons can bounce between the atoms, getting absorbed and re-emitted again and interfering with themselves. This field of quantum optics with atomic arrays is of active interest. Due to interactions, the limit of many absorbed photons generally remains hard to model, but at the same time may result in new, counterintuitive physical phenomena. In the search for ways to understand such systems, we can look for analogies in condensed matter physics, where the behavior of many interacting particles (electrons in this case) has been studied for decades. Here, we report on finding such an analogy between the behavior of few photons absorbed by an array and peculiar many-electron quantum states known as fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. FQH states display many counterintuitive properties -- for example the electrons behave like they decomposed into pieces (e.g. "one third of an electron"), even though we know that in reality they are indivisible. Now we know that photons in arrays can behave similarly."

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#physics #science #CondensedMatterPhysics #CondensedMatter #condMat #QuantumOptics #Quantum @physics

Did you know that if you put two sheets of graphene together and rotate them to a so-called "magic" angle, the innermost bands become flat - meaning the momentum doesn't depend on energy so the particles can change momentum without needing to gain or lose energy. [1/2]

#physics #graphene #CondensedMatterPhysics

In this new podcast episode, Dr. Jia “Leo” Li shares his research on emergent quantum phenomena in 2D materials, their thrilling recent discovery of a new type of particle, his path to becoming a successful scientist, challenges, advice, life outside the lab, and more!

https://www.peoplebehindthescience.com/dr-jia-leo-li/

#research #physics #CondensedMatterPhysics #particles #Science #STEM #podcast #sciencecommunication #scicomm

IgNobel or I will riot.

#IgNobel #CondensedMatterPhysics #SoftMatterPhysics #ItaliansBeingItalians

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

I have a favour to ask of a condensed matter physicist on behalf of a friend.

If you class yourself as a "condensed matter physicist", or "condensed matter physics adjacent", would you mind giving me a ping?

Thanks.

(PS: Please boost for reach ... much obliged)

#Physics #CondensedMatterPhysics

🔬In leap forward for #condensedmatterphysics, researchers reporting new #magnetic phase called #altermagnetism, 🧲 potentially revolutionizing #electronics 💻📱by significantly increasing speed & energy efficiency while reducing #environmental impact. #science #tech

https://thedebrief.org/researchers-uncover-new-class-of-magnetism-that-could-revolutionize-digital-devices/

If you're interested in Anderson localization or random quantum circuits, don't miss the opportunity to discuss it with Prof. John Chalker from the University of Oxford, Department of Physics online under his new Enabla lecture here: https://enabla.com/pub/942/about

Prof. Chalker's introductory lecture covers topics such as the random matrix theory of Gaussian Wigner-Dyson ensembles, Anderson localisation with one-parameter scaling, and random quantum circuits. The focus is on the spectral form factor, entanglement entropy, and out-of-time-ordered correlators.

#CondensedMatterPhysics #QuantumPhysics #RandomMatrices #AndersonLocalization #OpenAccess #QuantumCircuits

Just finished a call where the concept of data paper was mentionned.

Any information about it?

Recommendation for journals that would accept them in condensed matter physics are welcome!

#OpenData #OpenScience #CondensedMatterPhysics #physics #AcademicChatter