HMC Physics Colloquium
Tuesdays at 16:30 in Shanahan Center for Teaching and Learning, Room B460
Siddarth Parameswaran
University of California at Irvine
Topology and the Phases of Condensed Matter
March 21, 2017
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." I will review the discoveries they made and explain how they have changed our understanding of critical phenomena in low dimensions and the phases of quantum matter.