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UNINA9910741149303321 |
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Autore |
Musser George |
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Titolo |
Emergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity : A Nontechnical Review / / by George Musser |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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ISBN |
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9783031098956 |
9783031098949 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (104 pages) |
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Collana |
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SpringerBriefs in Physics, , 2191-5431 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Condensed matter |
Gravitation |
Topological insulators |
Condensed Matter |
Classical and Quantum Gravity |
Topological Material |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Just a Phase They’re Going Through—Landau’s Theory of Phase Transitions. 2. Tipping the Scales -- 3. Quantum Physics -- 4. Frozen Yet Mobile—Superconductors, Bose-Einstein Condensates and Strange Metals -- 5. ‘Twistronics’—Graphene’s Magic Angle. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book surveys the science at a semipopular, Scientific American-level. It is even-handed with regard to competing directions of research and philosophical positions. It is hard to get even two people to agree on anything, yet a million billion water molecules can suddenly and abruptly coordinate to lock themselves into an ice crystal or liberate one another to billow outwards as steam. The marvelous self-organizing capacity of matter is one of the central and deepest puzzles of physics, with implications for all the natural sciences. Physicists in the past century have found a remarkable diversity of phases of matter—and equally remarkable commonalities within that diversity. The pace of discovery has, if anything, only quickened in recent years |
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