Condensed concepts

 I just finished preparing my undergraduate lecture on the Debye model for solids. Here are my slides . The course is a third-year course on...

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

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

Two years ago, I wrote a post about a paper by Wei et al,  Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models Then last year, I posted about a pap...

In two dimensions the phase transition that occurs for superfluids, superconductors, and planar classical magnets is qualitatively different...

Atomic nuclei are complex quantum many-body systems. Effective theories have helped provide a better understanding of them. The best-known a...

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 ...

Emergence means different things to different people. Except, that practically everyone likes it! Or at least, likes using the word. Terms a...

The theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana mysteriously disappeared in 1938. Unfortunately, Majorana particles are also going to be associat...

Emergence is a concept relevant to a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics to sociology. Emergence is also at the heart of some...

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...

 Emergence is central to condensed matter physics. Furthermore, arguably emergence is one of the most important concepts to come from scienc...

Earlier I suggested that the founders of condensed matter physics were Onnes, Landau, Bardeen, Anderson, and Wilson. I might also add  Bria...