Spin-Peierls instability of the U(1) Dirac spin liquid
Urban Seifert University of California, Santa Barbara
Quantum matter physics is the branch of physics that studies systems of very large numbers of particles in a condensed state, like solids or liquids. Quantum matter physics wants to answer questions like: why is a material magnetic? Or why is it insulating or conducting? Or new, exciting questions like: what materials are good to make a reliable quantum computer? Can we describe gravity as the behavior of a material? The behavior of a system with many particles is very different from that of its individual particles. We say that the laws of many body physics are emergent or collective. Emergence explains the beauty of physics laws.
Urban Seifert University of California, Santa Barbara
Senthil Todadri Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics
Yijian Zou Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Yi-Zhuang You University of California, San Diego