03464nam 22006135 450 991074114930332120251202141421.09783031098956(electronic bk.)978303109894910.1007/978-3-031-09895-6(MiAaPQ)EBC7072374(Au-PeEL)EBL7072374(CKB)24360738100041(PPN)264192680(OCoLC)1340946157(DE-He213)978-3-031-09895-6(EXLCZ)992436073810004120220810d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEmergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity A Nontechnical Review /by George Musser1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2022.1 online resource (104 pages)SpringerBriefs in Physics,2191-5431Print version: Musser, George Emergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031098949 Includes bibliographical references.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.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 with the appreciation of quantum phases of matter and so-called topological order. The study of seemingly humdrum materials has made contact with the more exotic realm of quantum gravity, as theorists realize that the spacetime continuummay itself be a phase of some deeper and still unknown constituents. These developments flesh out the sometimes vague concept of the emergence—how exactly it is that complexity begets simplicity.SpringerBriefs in Physics,2191-5431Condensed matterGravitationTopological insulatorsCondensed MatterClassical and Quantum GravityTopological MaterialCondensed matter.Gravitation.Topological insulators.Condensed Matter.Classical and Quantum Gravity.Topological Material.530.41539.754Musser George1253179MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910741149303321Emergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity2905324UNINA