NATURE: Mark Sherwin & Team Prove Basic Collider Concepts can be Transferred to Solid-State Research

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Experiments conducted by UCSB physicist Mark Sherwin and an international team prove that basic collider concepts from particle physics can be transferred to solid-state research. Their findings appear in the journal Nature.

“Ultimately, this approach might lead to the clarification of some of the most outstanding enigmas of condensed matter physics,” said co-author Sherwin, director of UCSB’s Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology and a professor in the Department of Physics. “This is a fundamentally new concept that could lead to better-designed modern materials. Our results also may one day provide a better understanding of important phases of matter such as those found in high-temperature superconductors.”

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 Experiments conducted by UCSB physicist Mark Sherwin and an international team prove that basic collider concepts from particle physics can be transferred to solid-state research. Their findings appear in the journal Nature.

“Ultimately, this approach might lead to the clarification of some of the most outstanding enigmas of condensed matter physics,” said co-author Sherwin, director of UCSB’s Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology and a professor in the Department of Physics. “This is a fundamentally new concept that could lead to better-designed modern materials. Our results also may one day provide a better understanding of important phases of matter such as those found in high-temperature superconductors.”
 

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Professor Mark Sherwin

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016