PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE
 | The emergence of photons, electrons, and gravitons from quantum qbit systems Speaker(s): Xiao-Gang Wen
Abstract: We show that if a condensed matter system (a quantum qbit system) is in a string-net condensed state, then the low energy excitation in such a system can be gauge bosons (such as photons) and fermions (such as electrons). Such a system is actually the ether that we have been looking for 150 years. We will also discuss a quantum qbit system that may even give rise to emergent gravitons.
Date: 12/11/2008 - 2:00 pm
Series: Colloquium
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