Author Archives

• How a wave packet travels through a quantum electronic interferometer

  By Tom Sharp on March 8, 2017

  

  Graphics Processing Units speed up the simulation of the dynamics in complex quantum devices

• Complex surfaces and the collapse mechanism

  By Tom Sharp on March 1, 2017

  

  How the surface structure impacts the destruction of super-liquid repellency

• Image of the week: defects in mesoporous silicas

  By Tom Sharp on February 27, 2017

  

  This weeks image comes from the JPCM special issue on Soft Quasicrystals

• Insights from Emerging leaders: Height matters in sedimentation

  By Tom Sharp on February 21, 2017

  

  Sample-height deeply affects the sedimentation-diffusion-equilibrium of colloidal mixtures.

• Phase Diagram of Fabre Salts

  By Tom Sharp on February 13, 2017

  

  Vibrational spectroscopy allows us to determine the charge imbalance of Fabre salts locally as the phase diagram is scanned by external pressure

• NaCl dissolves differently below freezing point

  By Tom Sharp on February 10, 2017

  

  Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (JPCM) has invited some of the best early-career researchers in condensed matter physics to contribute to a special issue. Called ‘Emerging Leaders’, this special issue will be part of the Journal of Physics (JPhys) series’… Read More ›

• Long spin coherence lifetime in Eu3+:Y2O3 ceramic

  By Tom Sharp on February 9, 2017

  

  In a recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter paper, Dr Jenny Karlsson et al. investigate a promising transparent ceramic using an all-optical spin echo technique.

• Image of the week: Photoemission intensity map of KFeCoAs2

  By Tom Sharp on January 30, 2017

  

  Electronic structure of Iron based superconductors.

• A quantitative understanding of High Fidelity DNA polymerase

  By Tom Sharp on January 26, 2017

  

  How neighbor interactions determine the fidelity of DNA replication

• Detecting the fingerprints of Majorana quasiparticles

  By Tom Sharp on January 26, 2017

  

  Dr Ireneusz Weymann theoretically investigates how Majorana modes effect thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot.

• How do electrons differ from holes in unconventional superconductors?

  By Tom Sharp on January 18, 2017

  

  Marcin Wysokiński and Jan Kaczmarczyk theoretically investigate the electron–hole asymmetry of d-wave superconductivity driven by the non-local effects of correlations in the generalized single-band Hubbard model.

• Some like it Superhydrophobic

  By Tom Sharp on January 17, 2017

  

  In between liquid-gas and liquid-solid interfaces

• Neutron reflectometry reveals the spiral magnetic phase in thin film Erbium

  By Tom Sharp on January 9, 2017

  

  Nathan satchel et al. investigate the magnetic phase transition of thin film Erbium.

• Emerging leaders: an interview with Dr Ion Errea

  By Tom Sharp on January 6, 2017

  

  We talk with Dr Ion Errea of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) about is work, motivation, and advice for young researchers.

• Our top 5 most popular images of the year

  By Tom Sharp on January 2, 2017

  

  We take a look at the top 5 most popular images from the JPhys+ image of the week series, and the research behind them.

• A new metastable polymorph of scandium orthovanadate

  By Tom Sharp on December 14, 2016

  

  Can non-hydrostatic compression be used as a tool to get metastable phases of materials?

• What’s the difference between defects and amorphous structures?

  By Tom Sharp on December 13, 2016

  

  In a recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter paper, researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute have found that the structures of domain boundaries, sometimes thought to be amorphous, are in fact distinct from the glassy state.