Bhardwaj, L. (2017). Topological field theories and gapped phases of matter. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/17060021
MLA
Bhardwaj, Lakshya. Topological field theories and gapped phases of matter. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Jun. 01, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17060021
BibTex
@misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:17060021,
doi = {10.48660/17060021},
url = {https://pirsa.org/17060021},
author = {Bhardwaj, Lakshya},
keywords = {Other Physics},
language = {en},
title = {Topological field theories and gapped phases of matter},
publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
year = {2017},
month = {jun},
note = {PIRSA:17060021 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/17060021}}
}
I will introduce the idea that topological field theories describe the low-energy properties of gapped local quantum systems. This idea has proved fruitful in recent studies of gapped phases of matter.