Condensed matter

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Shedding light on artificial atoms Sep 3, 2008

New technique of 'amplitude spectroscopy' works at frequencies where conventional spectroscopy is difficult

Graphene pioneers bag Europhysics prize Sep 2, 2008

Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov recognized for discovering new carbon material just one atom thick

Memory device could store data using heat Aug 29, 2008 1 comment

Researchers develop a way of storing and reading information with phonons

Bubble-fusion researcher loses professorship Aug 28, 2008 9 comments

Purdue's Rusi Taleyarkhan says penalty is 'unfair and egregious'

Cold atoms explode like cloverleafs Aug 27, 2008 4 comments

Spectacular exploding 'bosenovas' seen in clouds of chromium atoms

Bush honours US atomic physicist Aug 26, 2008 1 comment

David Wineland wins US National Medal of Science

Spin-flip speed is pushed to the limit Aug 21, 2008 3 comments

Physicists discover a faster way to store data using spin-polarized electrons

Spinning electrons make for an unconventional metal Aug 20, 2008 15 comments

Simple exception to Landau-Fermi liquid could provide new route to spintronics

Carbon nanotubes, but without the 'nano' Aug 8, 2008 5 comments

New structures are 30 times stronger than Kevlar, say researchers

Stretching the boundaries of electronics Aug 7, 2008

Material can be stretched by up to 70% and is still electrically conductive

Ballistic breakthrough could lead to molecular logic gates Aug 2, 2008 2 comments

Electrons travel with ease between benzene and platinum

Cold atoms could help build 'spintronics' transistor Aug 1, 2008

Analogue "may help understand problems in real systems"

Superfluidity: three people, two papers, one prize Aug 1, 2008 2 comments

Most accounts of the controversial discovery of superfluid helium by Peter Kapitza, Jack Allen and Don Misener are often incomplete or simply wrong. Allan Griffin tries to set the record straight

Inspired thinking Aug 1, 2008

Douglas Osheroff was one of 19 Nobel-prize-winning physicists who attended a meeting in Germany last month that played host to over 550 of the world’s most promising young researchers. He gives Matthew Chalmers his tips for would-be Nobel laureates of the future

Plasmons put laser light on the straight and narrow Jul 31, 2008

Tiny collimator reduces divergence of light from semiconductor lasers