{"id":1626,"date":"2007-08-01T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T09:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/01\/physics-news-solid-state-editi-1\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T09:43:38","slug":"physics-news-solid-state-editi-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/01\/physics-news-solid-state-editi-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics &#8220;News&#8221;: Solid State Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on vacation this week, and taking this opportunity to clear out a large backlog of news items that I flagged as interesting, but never got around to commenting on. I&#8217;ll group them thematically, just to spread things out over a few days, and this lot is a bunch of articles about new developments in the study of solid state systems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/pnu\/2007\/split\/831-1.html?source=rsspnu\">&#8220;Are Doubly Charged Particles Lurking in High-T Superconductors?&#8221;<\/a>: I don&#8217;t know. Are they? Exactly what mechanism leads to electron pairing and superconductivity in the high-temperature ceramic superconductors remains a mystery, and this reports on a new suggestion that it&#8217;s the result of a new particle that &#8220;would be distinct from a Cooper pair, the charge carrier in a superconductor. The new particle would be a boson that carries twice the charge of an electron, but is not made out of elementary excitations.&#8221; I&#8217;m not entirely sure what that means, which is why I haven&#8217;t posted about it before.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/11\/7\/19\/1\">&#8220;Supersolid saga continues&#8221;<\/a>: Seriously, guys, this is starting to get old.<\/li>\n<li>The hot system of the moment in solid state systems seems to be &#8220;graphene,&#8221; which is basically a single-atom sheet of graphite&#8211; a single sheet of carbon atoms in a planar arrangement. There have been a zillion graphene stories in the last few months, of which I flagged two: <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/11\/6\/19\/1?rss=2.0\">&#8220;Graphene p-n junction unveiled&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/11\/7\/22\/1?rss=2.0\">&#8220;Graphene oxide weaved into &#8216;paper'&#8221;<\/a>. They&#8217;re pretty much what they sound like from the titles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on vacation this week, and taking this opportunity to clear out a large backlog of news items that I flagged as interesting, but never got around to commenting on. I&#8217;ll group them thematically, just to spread things out over a few days, and this lot is a bunch of articles about new developments in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/01\/physics-news-solid-state-editi-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics &#8220;News&#8221;: Solid State Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}