Author Archives

• Exploring the 3d Dirac point

  By Tom Sharp on December 5, 2016

  

  Zhimin Liao and his team explore magnetotransport properties around the Dirac point in 3D Dirac semimetals.

• Image of the week: common domain boundaries in silica bilayers

  By Tom Sharp on December 5, 2016

  

  This week’s image of the week comes from a recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter paper by Dr Markus Heyde et al. of the Fritz Haber Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft.

• A Plasmon’s Life in Atomic Wires

  By Tom Sharp on November 30, 2016

  

  Are plasmons hosted in atomically thin metallic wires a possible solution for future waveguides?

• Remarkable thermodynamic loci in supercritical Si

  By Tom Sharp on November 25, 2016

  

  Expanded Wang-Landau simulations reveal the ideality contours spanning supercritical Si.

• Floquet topological superconductivity with ultracold atoms

  By Tom Sharp on November 23, 2016

  

  Studies of the kicked Harper-Kitaev model reveal the coexistence of both Floquet
  Majorana modes and quantum Hall chiral edge modes at the same sample boundary.

• Blocking of injected holes at a charge extracting interface

  By Tom Sharp on November 18, 2016

  

  Studies of gold-squaraine-gold structures reveal how hole extraction determines devices properties.

• Understanding high-temperature superconductivity in Fe-based superconductors

  By Tom Sharp on November 15, 2016

  

  In a recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter paper, Dr Zhaosheng Wang et al. studied the temperature dependence of the upper critical field (Hc2) and its anisotropy in (Li1-xFex)OHFe1-ySe (FeSe11111) single crystals by means of magnetotransport measurements.

• Image of the week: Hofstadter butterfly in the Falicov–Kimball model

  By Tom Sharp on November 7, 2016

  

  This week’s selected image comes from a recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter paper from Subhasree Pradhan. She used exact diagonalisation and Monte Carlo methods to compare spinless, interacting electrons on finite size triangular and square lattices, highlighting interplay between… Read More ›

• Soaked to the skin: tuning ionic liquids for electrochemical devices

  By Tom Sharp on October 28, 2016

  

  A recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter letter sheds light on the structure of the electrified interface in mixtures of contaminated ionic liquids

• Slowing down electromagnetic waves via hyperfine terahertz metamaterials

  By Tom Sharp on October 20, 2016

  

  A new approach for multispectral plasmon-induced transparency metamaterials

• Understanding Mott transitions in a two-band model

  By Tom Sharp on September 30, 2016

  

  A recent theoretical work in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter uncovers new results for the Mott transition in the periodic Anderson model

• Pushing forward 2D/3D contacts simulations

  By Tom Sharp on September 23, 2016

  

  A new approach enables fully ab initio simulations of the contacts between 3D and 2D materials.

• Observing order in chemical disorder

  By Tom Sharp on September 14, 2016

  

  A deepened understanding of diffraction patterns from L10 materials

• Simulating superfluids with many vortices

  By Tom Sharp on September 7, 2016

  

  An efficient numerical scheme for infinite vortex lattices in superfluids

• New method for rapid calculation of fundamental hydration properties

  By Tom Sharp on September 2, 2016

  

  In silico drug design stands to benefit from deeper insights into hydration properties achieved with 3D-RISM

• Do embryonic cells communicate via mechanical feedback?

  By Tom Sharp on August 30, 2016

  

  An Active Granular Fluid model shows how cellular activities are coordinated through mechanical feedback

• Interfacial energy-bending within organic semiconductors

  By Tom Sharp on July 28, 2016

  

  The validity of the electrostatic model at interfaces is tested.