Topological Phases of Matter

A topic within Condensed Matter Physics, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Physics.

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Lecture2016

Nobel Lecture: Topological Quantum Matter

F. Duncan M. Haldane

Argues that phases of matter can be classified by topology rather than by broken symmetry, and shows how a quantum spin chain can hide a topological phase with no local order parameter at all.

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Lecture2016

Nobel Lecture: Topological Defects and Phase Transitions

J. Michael Kosterlitz

Shows that a two-dimensional system can undergo a phase transition driven by the unbinding of vortex pairs, even though it has no long-range order to break at any temperature.