The Condensed Matter Group at IASBS is an active research group working in the general area of statistical mechanics of disordered and frustrated systems, soft condensed matter, quantum phase transitions, strongly correlated electron systems, transport in mesoscopic heterostructures,  superconductivity, and physics of porous and fractured media.

[Last update 30 December 2004]

Sink or swim. This nano-swimmer moves forward by expanding and contracting two rods connecting three spheres. This image shows each stage in the cycle.

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