Condensed concepts

Every person is unique. No two people are identical. We differ in physical appearance, personality, fingerprints, heartbeat, gait, and DNA. ...

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

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

I am interested in analogues between cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Emergent phenomena occur in both, there have been some f...

What is real? What is true? These big questions are central to philosophy and issues in the philosophy of science. Emergent properties of co...

For the marketing plan for my Very Short Introduction , I was recently asked whether there were any significant anniversaries happening in c...

The Kondo effect is a paradigm for quantum many-body physics. It has so much: non-perturbative effects, scaling, emergent energy scales, Bet...

I am looking forward to reading Andrew Zangwill's book,  A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many , that sh...

I have now finished my first draft of chapter 6 , of  Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction.  The main purpose of the chapter ...

Every person is unique. No two people on earth are identical. We differ in physical appearance, personality, fingerprints, heartbeat, gait,...

An important concept in condensed matter is the role played by scales , i.e. how big or small physical quantities are. Length, time, energy,...

To my readers my best wishes for the New Year and the new decade! It is worth reflecting on what has been achieved in condensed matter and...

Emergent phenomena occur in social systems. For example, self-organisation, power laws, networks, aggregation/segregation, political polaris...

I am trying to get some momentum in writing A Very Short Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics. The intended audience is the intellectua...

On Friday there was a nice UQ Maths and Physics Colloquium, Beyond the Gaussian Universality Class , given by Ivan Corwin , The talk was a ...

Computer simulations can provide significant insight into different physical phenomena. Two decades ago the best one could do in a class or ...

The two terms are often used interchangeably, but that is not appropriate. Condensed matter physics does not just involve solids but also ph...

One of the most fundamental and profound concepts in quantum many-body theory is the emergence of low energy scales  that are much smaller t...

Today I am giving a cake meeting talk about something a bit different. Over the past year or so I have tried to learn something about "...

What are the big questions that people are (or should be) wrestling within universities? What are the grand intellectual challenges, partic...