2015/11/23 by Lokman Tsui, Tsui, Lokman, Fa Wang +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum many-body systems #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Topological Materials and Phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1511.07460
openalex publication_date 2015/11/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The study of continuous phase transitions triggered by spontaneous symmetry breaking has brought new concepts that revolutionized the way we understand many-body systems. Recently, through the discovery of symmetry protected topological phases, it is realized that quantum phase transition between states with the same symmetry but different topology can also occur continuously. Here we ask "what distinguishes these two types of phase transitions".