If there is any one individual who has influenced both the scientific content and philosophy of this blog it is Phil Anderson. There are 45 posts with "P.W. Anderson" as a label, more than any other individual. However, his influence goes far beyond that.
In December Princeton will host a 90th birthday celebration conference in his honour.
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Superconductivity: a poster child for emergence
Superconductivity beautifully illustrates the characteristics of emergent properties. Novelty. Distinct properties of the superconducting s...
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Is it something to do with breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation? In molecular spectroscopy you occasionally hear this term thro... -
I welcome discussion on this point. I don't think it is as sensitive or as important a topic as the author order on papers. With rega...
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If you look on the arXiv and in Nature journals there is a continuing stream of people claiming to observe superconductivity in some new mat...
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