Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the microscopic physical properties of matter. In particular, it is concerned with the "condensed" phases that appear whenever the number of constituents in a system is extremely large and the interactions between the constituents are strong.

Publication

Ames Laboratory's W. Dai and C.M. Soukoulis have recienty been published in American Institute of Physics' Applied Physics Letters. Featured on the front page, their article, "Converging and wave guiding of Gaussian beam by two-layer dielectric rods", can be found here.