LCN Professor Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Uppsala University
Professor Steven T. Bramwell (LCN and UCL Department of Physics & Astronomy) has been awarded an honorary doctorate (FDhc) at Uppsala University, Sweden. Founded in 1477, Uppsala University is the oldest university in Scandinavia. The title of honorary doctor...
Special Temperatures for Magnetic Discovery
Getting to low temperature is something we take for granted today: laboratories across the world are awash with liquid nitrogen at -196C and body scanners in hospitals use liquid helium at only 4.2 degrees above absolute zero (-269 C). Yet what underpins this low...
Evidence of topological excitations in a quantum magnet
Condensed matter physics is the study of the multitude of ways that matter can organise itself. In each phase as conventionally understood, be it a magnet, metal, superconductor or something else, it is possible to characterise the phase by looking at the system...