Peter Littlewood

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Peter Littlewood is a professor of physics at the University of Chicago. He was previously director of Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, and before that a professor of physics and head of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include superconductivity and superfluids, strongly correlated electronic materials, collective dynamics of glasses, density waves in solids, neuroscience, and applications of materials for energy and sustainability.


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Chiral symmetry breaking and charge order

When electronic instabilities give rise to three coexisting density waves, interference between them may lock into a state with helicity. Read More »

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Nonreciprocal Frustration Meets Geometrical Frustration

New theoretical work establishes an analogy between systems that are dynamically frustrated, such as glasses, and thermodynamic systems whose members have conflicting goals, such as predator–prey ecosystems. Read More »