From new states of matter to a unification of light and electrons

Details From new states of matter to a unification of light and electrons From new states of matter to a unification of light and electrons

2005-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508020v2

Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl. 160 (2006) 351-360

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

14 pages, to appear in YKIS2004 proceedings, homepage http://dao.mit.edu/~wen

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTPS.160.351

For a long time, people believe that all possible states of matter are described by Landau symmetry-breaking theory. Recently we find that string-net condensation provide a mechanism to produce states of matter beyond the symmetry-breaking description. The collective excitations of the string-net condensed states turn out to be our old friends, photons and electrons (and other gauge bosons and fermions). This suggests that our vacuum is a string-net condensed state. Light and electrons in our vacuum have a unified origin -- string-net condensation.

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