Building Fractional Topological Insulators
Fiona Burnell University of Minnesota
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.
Fiona Burnell University of Minnesota
Baskaran Ganapathy Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Mariano Cadoni University of Cagliari
Paolo Zanardi Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation
Eduardo Fradkin University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Volodya Miransky Western University