Electron-pair discovery advances field of quantum materials
Physicist Séamus Davis and his team have found an exotic state of quantum matter.
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Klarman postdoc tackles ‘theory of everything’ with first principles
Physicist Francesco Sgarlata is taking a bottom-up approach to finding a theory of quantum gravity.
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Monolayer superconductor exhibits unusual behavior
Cornell researchers have discovered a rare “pseudogap” phenomenon that helps explain how the superconducting transition temperature can be greatly boosted in a single monolayer of iron selenide, and how it might be applied to other superconducting materials.
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Best practice for instructional labs
Physicist Natasha Holmes and her co-author describe how undergraduate labs that encourage investigation and decision-making are more positive for students – and are more effective -- than those that focus on verification of concepts in textbooks.
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Thermal analysis guides future design of 2D hybrid materials
Cornell engineers are the first to study thermal transport in 2D hybrid perovskites – a new class of materials with promising applications for photovoltaics and thermoelectronics.
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Superfluid reacts strangely under pressure change
A Cornell-led collaboration identified an unusual behavior of superfluid helium-3 when it undergoes a phase transition between two different superfluid states – a transition that theoretically shouldn’t happen reliably.
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Superconducting quantum material has an organic twist
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers has created a cohort of new quantum metamaterials that can achieve superconductivity at temperatures competitive with state-of-the-art solid-state materials synthesis.
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$2M in New Frontier Grants boost high-impact A&S research
Research supported by the 14 grants ranges from the physics of quantum computing to the design of new musical instruments.
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Annual conference on new telescope moves science ahead
More than a hundred people gathered virtually at the end of April for the 2021 annual conference on the CCAT-prime project, which is building the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile. “First light” is scheduled for 2023.
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'The musical environment here is beyond imagination'
Junkai Dong is a physics and math major.
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