SLIDE 2 Condensed Matter Physics
“More is Different”
Hierachical Structure of Science P . W. Anderson
Science, 177, 393 (1972)
Broken Symmetry & Emergence
N ≃ 1023 F = E
− TS
“New Phases of Matter” “Restore Symmetry”
“Quantum Condensates” λ = h p = h √2mkBT A New Organizing Principle − → “Topological Order”
Quantum Hall Effect σHall = N e2 h
◮ Topological Insulators & Superconductors ◮ Bulk-Edge Correspondence ◮ Edge States & Quantized Transport ◮ Majorana Fermions with non-abelian statistics ◮ Topologically protected quantum computing
Over 200 classes of topological materials ... almost all undiscovered!