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condensed matter

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noun

  1. physics

    1. crystalline and amorphous solids and liquids, including liquid crystals, glasses, polymers, and gels

    2. ( as modifier )

      condensed-matter physics

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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For several years, the teams led by Zeng and Cheng have investigated how these vacuum fluctuations affect condensed matter systems.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

"We want to be a place where there's a mixing of lots of perspectives, and this is us practicing what we preach -- a cosmologist working closely with a condensed matter theorist."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026

Her research, focused on soft condensed matter, has been seeking a comprehensive theory to explain the curious elasticity of such material.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The study also confirms that PtBi2 provides a new and practical route to producing Majorana particles, which have long been sought in condensed matter physics.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 26, 2025

In the process of contraction, portions of the condensed matter of the nebula would be left behind.

From The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

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