Condensed concepts

 A characteristic of emergent phenomena is how novel and complex properties can emerge from apparently simple laws. Quantum ChromoDynamics (...

Due to emergence, reality is stratified. This is reflected in the existence of semi-autonomous scientific disciplines and subdisciplines. A ...

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...

When first proposed by Ken Wilson in 1974, lattice gauge theory was arguably a toy model , i.e., an oversimplification. He treated space-tim...

Spin ices are magnetic materials in which geometrically frustrated magnetic interactions between the spins prevent long-range magnetic orde...

What is a fundamental theory? As we go to smaller and smaller distances and higher energies we keep finding new entities: atoms, electrons, ...

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

 Over the last hundred years, there has been a fruitful cross-fertilisation of concepts and techniques between the theory of condensed matte...

The concept of emergence is central to understanding sub-fields of physics and how they are related, and not related, to other sub-fields. T...

In 2016, when I saw the first results from the LIGO gravitational wave interferometer my natural caution and skepticism kicked in. They had ...

When I read Fundamentals by Frank Wilczek I learnt something that I found beautiful and amazing about general relativity and quantum field ...

Since we are surrounded by scientific knowledge. We are so used to it that we can take science for granted and not reflect on how amazing sc...

What are the most amazing things that we know about the physics of the universe? If you were to pick ten what would they be? I recently read...

Unfortunately, there is a paucity of good review articles that give gentle introductions to current research in condensed matter, both for b...