Propel your career forward with an accredited graduate certificate. Experimental materials physics is a growing field expected to meet many academic and industrial needs. The on-campus graduate ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists ...

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Modified wood Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, have developed the world’s first electrical transistor made of wood. (Courtesy: ...

A crucial number that rules the universe goes big in a strange quantum material. The fine-structure constant is about 10 times its normal value in a type of material called quantum spin ice, ...

Numerical programming and computer simulations are ubiquitous through all subjects in physics. Thus, computational physics has grown to be an appealing field for those who wish to acquire advanced and ...

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Physics researchers at William & Mary are part of an international team that is gaining worldwide attention for their work with a new superconductive material. The group is studying a new material, ...

In material physics understanding how systems interact across the interfaces separating them is of central interest. But can physical models clarify similar concepts in living systems, such as cells?

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