✎ Condensed Matter Physics [The Physics Travel Guide]

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====== Condensed Matter Physics ======

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In this section things should be explained by analogy and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas.
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The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//.
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<blockquote>It is possible to present condensed-matter physics as interesting, compelling, and even inspiring. Emergence, universality, and symmetry are powerful, amazing ideas. The same essential physics that holds up a white dwarf star is a key ingredient in what makes solids solid, whether we’re talking about a diamond or a block of plastic. Individual electrons seem simple, but put many of them together with a magnetic field in the right 2D environment and presto: excitations with fractional charges. Want electrons to act like ultrarelativistic particles, or act like their own antiparticles, or act like spinning tops pointing in the direction of their motion, or pair up and act together coherently? No problem, with the right crystal lattice. This isn’t dirt physics, and it isn’t squalid.<cite>https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20181219a/full/</cite></blockquote>

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