A series of 10 free lectures at the University of Chicago will describe the fascinating and exotic properties of everyday matter, and the universal framework that physicists use to think about large ...

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The goal of the Boulder-2015 school is to discuss basic concepts and theoretical methods useful to understand the physics of soft materials. Special emphasis will be attached to geometrical and ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Condensed-matter and materials physics is the branch of physics that studies the ...

Time crystals break time-translational symmetry rather than spatial symmetry, as ordinary crystals do. Peter Hannaford and Krzysztof Sacha look at how this exotic state could have similar applications ...