Condensed matter physics is the branch of physics that studies systems of very large numbers of particles in a condensed state, like solids or liquids. Condensed 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.
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The reactivity of quantum experiments
Thomas Schuster - California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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The Physics of Computation with qLDPC codes
Vedika Khemani
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Probing 2D invertible phases with replica permutations
Michael Levin
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Non-perturbative constraints on phase diagrams of non-equilibrium systems
Tarun Grover - University of California, San Diego
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Strong-to-weak $U(1)$ Symmetry Breaking in Open System Dynamics
Matthew Fisher - University of California, Santa Barbara