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While there certainly are ideas from string theory that have filtered down to CMP, topological insulators are not one of them.
by radioactivist 3y ago
While 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.