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Theory of quantum Hall effect in bilayer grapheme
Volodya Miransky Western University
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.
Volodya Miransky Western University
David Hawthorn University of Waterloo
Eduardo Fradkin University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tadashi Takayanagi Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Yong-Baek Kim University of Toronto
Pasquale Sodano University of Perugia
Senthil Todadri Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics
Denjoe O'Connor Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Zheng-Cheng Gu Chinese University of Hong Kong