condensed matter physics

Anyons don’t fit into either of the two known particle kingdoms. To find them, physicists had to erase the third dimension.

Sometimes a mirror that reflects 99.9999% of light isn’t good enough.

Glass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal, yet made of disordered molecules like a liquid. To understand why it exists, researchers are attempting to create the perfect, still-hypothetical “ideal glass.”

As the founding director of a new institute for fundamental research in Rwanda, the physicist Omololu Akin-Ojo hopes to stem the brain drain of Africa’s brightest minds.

Snow crystals come in two main types. The “pope” of snowflake physics has a new theory that explains why.

While studying materials made from DNA-coated nanoparticles, researchers found a new form of this matter: lattices in which smaller particles roam like electrons in metallic bonds.

A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets.

A new experiment confirms the existence of “superionic ice,” a bizarre form of water that might comprise the bulk of giant icy planets throughout the universe.

Mathematicians have found that materials conduct electricity when electrons follow a universal mathematical pattern.