Studying Topologically Ordered Matter Wins Nobel

3 Share Physics Nobel for Work on States of Matter By DENNIS OVERBYE and SEWELL CHAN 6:23 AM ET David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz were recognized for transforming the understanding of matter that assumes strange shapes. Alfred NobelAlfred Nobel > Quotes Alfred Nobel quotes (showing 1-6 of 6) “I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.” ― Alfred Nobel tags: benevolent, biography, cranky, idealist, misanthrope, philosophy12 likesLike “The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.” ― Alfred Nobel tags: civilization, peace, war5 likesLike “If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied” ― Alfred Nobel 5 likesLike “Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.” ― Alfred Nobel tags: kant4 likesLi Studying Topologically Ordered Matter Wins Nobel I know very little of Alfred Nobel except that he invented dynamite but later came to rue it giving Prizes to undue it. But it seems evident as well the man could also write meaningful and pithy phrases. So perhaps it is appropriate the study of matter and its phases to many a new weirder state just won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. What Einstein called a 'spooky entanglement' dance is now in the thick of modern Physics' advance bringing ultra sophisticated chatter about new kinds of matter requiring advanced math to describe without apology including something called quantized non-Abelian topology. This is quite remarkable stuff though trying to understand it is rough and, if you're among the few that do, I think you'd deserve an award too. HzL 10/3/16 Alfred Nobel's Dynamite Companies - Nobelprize.org https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/articles/lundstrom/ Nobel Prize Alfred Nobel's invention of the detonator ensured a controlled explosion of nitroglycerine and made it possible to introduce this much stronger explosive on the ... S Topological order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_order Wikipedia In physics, topological order is a kind of order in zero-temperature phase of matter (also known as quantum matter). Macroscopically, topological order is defined/described by robust ground state degeneracy and quantized non-Abelian geometric phases of degenerate ground states. [PDF]An Introduction of Topological Orders - MIT dao.mit.edu/~wen/topartS3.pdf by XG Wen - ‎Cited by 5 - ‎Related articles In this article, we examine the orders in states of matter in depth and present a new ... Topological orders (and quantum orders) extend and deepen our previous ... Topological states of matter - nLab https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/topological+state+of+matter nLab Nov 18, 2015 - We include here a phase of matter which is, at long distance and low energy, described by a topological quantum field theory (invariant under small smooth deformations of space-time) as well as the phases related to symmetry protected trivial orders (SPT orders). topological order in nLab https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/topological+order nLab Sep 15, 2016 - Topological order is an order in quantum phase of matter which is beyond Landau symmetry breaking order. At long distance and low energy ... The 500 phases of matter: Entering a new phase - Phys.org phys.org › Physics › Condensed Matter Phys.org Dec 21, 2012 - String-nets are a theoretical kind of topologically ordered matter. ... Examples of symmetry-protected phases include some topological ... Topics in Topologically Ordered Phases of Matter [eScholarship] escholarship.org/uc/item/4t51m2vg by A Selem - ‎2013 - ‎Related articles An outstanding problem in the study of topologically ordered phases is to find methods to distinguishtopologically ordered from unordered phases. Topological order: from long-range entangled quantum matter to an ... arxiv.org › cond-mat arXiv by XG Wen - ‎2012 - ‎Cited by 30 - ‎Related articles Oct 4, 2012 - Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons ... that reveal the existence of those new phases - topologically ordered phases. Just like ... [PDF]Introduction - Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10039.pdf Princeton University Press tum theory predicts the existence of myriad states of matter, such as ... of phases of matter with so-called topological order do not have a local order parameter. https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTompKLIEFRffNHAUO46VlqrKbqCYwbSADDPIsOFUwY-ru3ikLw