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On the flip side I always enjoyed seeing all these ideas get successfully applied in condensed matter such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_insulato
by octonion137 3y ago
On the flip side I always enjoyed seeing all these ideas get successfully applied in condensed matter such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_insulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_insulator
- noobermin 3y agoI think the response to this is then to just study condensed matter then.
- octonion137 3y agoindubitably
- StringHool 3y ago[flagged]
- radioactivist 3y agoWhile there certainly are ideas from string theory that have filtered down to CMP, topological insulators are not one of them.
- octonion137 3y agoThat's probably true and my association of the two is probably subjective since at the time I was learning about Chern-Simons and saw it used in both contexts https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ebkaufma/RMP.pdf https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ebkaufma/RMP.pdf
- StringHool 3y agoChern-Simons theory is a string theory.