Condensed concepts

 An example of emergent entities in condensed matter physics are quasiparticles. The concept can be described with the following analogue. W...

Tony Leggett died last week. The New York Times has a nice obituary. One measure of his influence on me is that more than 20 posts on this ...

In February 1986, Bednorz and Müller made a stunning discovery: superconductivity at a temperature of 35 K in a doped copper oxide (cuprate)...

How do you learn to ride a bicycle? How do you teach someone to ride a bicycle? It is not easy to put this into words and that is an importa...

In 1986, Steven Weinberg published an article,  Superconductivity for Particular Theorists , in which he stated "No one did more than N...

I just posted on the arXiv a long review article on emergence Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science The abstra...

It is important to be clear what the system is. Most of chemistry is not really about isolated molecules. A significant amount of chemistry ...

Phase diagrams have been ubiquitous in materials science for decades. They show what states of matter are thermodynamically stable depending...

A nice preprint illustrates how emergence is central to some of the biggest questions in economics and finance. Emergent phenomena occur as ...

A decade ago John Hopfield reflected on his scientific life in  Annual Reviews in Condensed Matter Physics,  Whatever Happened to Solid Stat...

In the previous post, I considered five different characteristics that are often associated with emergence and classified them as being asso...

There is more to emergence than novel properties, i.e., where a whole system has a property that the individual components of the system do ...

The figure above shows the stratification of objects that interest physicists. As one goes down the chain length and time scales get smaller...

Oxford University Press has a nice podcast on Very Short Introductions.  In each episode, an author of a specific volume has 10-15 minutes ...