2016-02-01

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This video is about weird condensed matter systems, aka materials that have bizarre emergent particles in them that are unlike most other particles in the universe.

Thanks to the Moore Foundation (http://www.moore.org) for supporting this video.

More info about the physics of weird materials:

The Higgs Boson - /youtube/video/9Uh5mTxRQcg

Semiconductor Holes - http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/Chenming-Hu_ch1.pdf

Superconductors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity

Quasiparticles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle

Heavy Fermions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fermion

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