Editing Solid-state physics (section)

==History==
{{See also|Timeline of condensed matter physics}}
The physical properties of solids have been common subjects of scientific inquiry for centuries, but a separate field going by the name of solid-state physics did not emerge until the [[1940s]], in particular with the establishment of the Division of Solid State Physics (DSSP) within the [[American Physical Society]]. The DSSP catered to industrial physicists, and solid-state physics became associated with the technological applications made possible by research on solids. By the early 1960s, the DSSP was the largest division of the American Physical Society.<ref name="martin-pip">{{cite journal|last=Martin|first=Joseph D. |title=What's in a Name Change? Solid State Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Materials Science|journal=Physics in Perspective|date=2015|volume=17|issue=1|doi=10.1007/s00016-014-0151-7|pages=3–32|bibcode = 2015PhP....17....3M |s2cid=117809375 |url=http://dro.dur.ac.uk/29168/1/29168.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214125047/http://dro.dur.ac.uk/29168/1/29168.pdf |archive-date=2019-12-14 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Hoddeson-1992">{{cite book|last=Hoddeson|first=Lillian|title=Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from The History of Solid State Physics|year=1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195053296|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCpPPHhMdRcC&pg=PA29|display-authors=etal}}</ref>

Large communities of solid state physicists also emerged in [[Europe]] after [[World War II]], in particular in [[England]], [[Germany]], and the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="hoffmann-pss">{{cite journal|last=Hoffmann|first=Dieter|title=Fifty Years of ''Physica Status Solidi'' in Historical Perspective|journal=Physica Status Solidi B|date=2013|volume=250|issue=4|doi=10.1002/pssb.201340126|pages=871–887|bibcode=2013PSSBR.250..871H|s2cid=122917133 }}</ref> In the United States and Europe, solid state became a prominent field through its investigations into [[semiconductor]]s, [[superconductivity]], [[nuclear magnetic resonance]], and diverse other phenomena. During the early Cold War, research in solid state physics was often not restricted to solids, which led some physicists in the 1970s and 1980s to found the field of [[condensed matter physics]], which organized around common techniques used to investigate solids, liquids, plasmas, and other complex matter.<ref name="martin-pip"/> Today, solid-state physics is broadly considered to be the subfield of condensed matter physics, often referred to as hard condensed matter, that focuses on the properties of solids with regular crystal lattices.