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Public Lecture: The quantum phases of matter

2024/5/8
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Sommerfeld Lecture Series (ASC)

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In many modern materials, electrons quantum‐entangle with each other across long distances, and produce new phases of matter, such as high temperature super‐conductors. We face the challenge of describing the entanglement of 10^{23} electrons, which is being met by many ideas, including some drawn from string theory.