Condensed concepts

Adventures in Flatland In everyday life we think of most objects as having three dimensions. But what would life be like in a two-dimen...

The relationship between emergence and causation is contentious, with a long history. Most discussions are qualitative. Presented with a new...

 Best wishes for the New Year! Here is a list of the posts that I wrote last year that I hope get the most interest. My review article on em...

One of the many beauties of condensed matter physics is that it can reveal and illuminate how two systems or phenomena that at first appear ...

I recently learnt that Rodney Baxter died earlier this year. He was adept at finding exact solutions to two-dimensional lattice models in st...

A typical undergraduate course on statistical mechanics is arguably misleading because (unintentionally) it does not tell students several i...

In 1925, Ising published his paper on the solution of the model in one dimension. An English translation is here. https://www.hs-augsburg.de...

In previous posts, I discussed how "spin-crossover" material is a misnomer because many of these materials do not undergo crossov...

In recent posts, I discussed how "spin crossover" is a misnomer for the plethora of organometallic compounds that undergo spin-st...

Previously, I discussed how spin-crossover is a misnomer for organometallic compounds and proposed that an effective Hamiltonian to describe...

There are hundreds of organometallic compounds that are classified as spin-crossover compounds . As the temperature is varied the average sp...

"Structuralism as an influential intellectual movement of the twentieth century has been advocated by Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, ...

Pint of Science is an annual event in cities all around Australia. Local scientists give short talks about their research to general audienc...

Two of the approaches to the theoretical description of systems with emergent properties that have been fruitful are effective theories and ...

The Ising model is emblematic of “toy models” that have been proposed and studied to understand and describe emergent phenomena. Although or...

How is the whole related to the parts? Which type of economy will produce the best outcomes: laissez-faire or regulated? Can a government en...