LEADER 03464nam 22006135 450 001 9910741149303321 005 20251202141421.0 010 $a9783031098956$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031098949 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-09895-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7072374 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7072374 035 $a(CKB)24360738100041 035 $a(PPN)264192680 035 $a(OCoLC)1340946157 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-09895-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924360738100041 100 $a20220810d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity $eA Nontechnical Review /$fby George Musser 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (104 pages) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Physics,$x2191-5431 311 08$aPrint version: Musser, George Emergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031098949 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book surveys the science at a semipopular, Scientific American-level. It is even-handed with regard to competing directions of research and philosophical positions. It is hard to get even two people to agree on anything, yet a million billion water molecules can suddenly and abruptly coordinate to lock themselves into an ice crystal or liberate one another to billow outwards as steam. The marvelous self-organizing capacity of matter is one of the central and deepest puzzles of physics, with implications for all the natural sciences. Physicists in the past century have found a remarkable diversity of phases of matter?and equally remarkable commonalities within that diversity. The pace of discovery has, if anything, only quickened in recent years with the appreciation of quantum phases of matter and so-called topological order. The study of seemingly humdrum materials has made contact with the more exotic realm of quantum gravity, as theorists realize that the spacetime continuummay itself be a phase of some deeper and still unknown constituents. These developments flesh out the sometimes vague concept of the emergence?how exactly it is that complexity begets simplicity. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Physics,$x2191-5431 606 $aCondensed matter 606 $aGravitation 606 $aTopological insulators 606 $aCondensed Matter 606 $aClassical and Quantum Gravity 606 $aTopological Material 615 0$aCondensed matter. 615 0$aGravitation. 615 0$aTopological insulators. 615 14$aCondensed Matter. 615 24$aClassical and Quantum Gravity. 615 24$aTopological Material. 676 $a530.41 676 $a539.754 700 $aMusser$b George$01253179 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910741149303321 996 $aEmergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity$92905324 997 $aUNINA