condensed matter physics

A tribute to rubidium

Sep 9, 2025 3 min read

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A tale of vortices, skyrmions, paths and shapes

Mar 20, 2021 9 min read

Scicomm Science anyons BCS theory chiral magnets condensed matter physics David Thouless Kosterlitz-Thouless transition materials science Nanyang Technical University orbital angular momentum p-wave superconductor path dependency phase transition quantum computers quasiparticles Rashba-Edelstein effect s-wave superconductor skyrmion-vortex coupling skyrmions solid state physics superconductors supercurrent topological excitations topology Vijay Shenoy

There are many types of superconductors. Some of them can be explained by an early theory of superconductivity called Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory. In these materials, vibrations in the ato…

Getting started on superconductivity

Aug 23, 2012 6 min read

Uncategorized condensed matter physics Cooper pairs Electromagnetism Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Large Hadron Collider Leon Cooper Lorentz force superconductivity

After the hoopla surrounding and attention on particle physics subsided, I realized that I’d been riding a speeding wagon all the time. All I’d done is used the lead-up to (the search for the Higgs bo…