nLab phase of matter

Idea

(…) concept in thermodynamics/condensed matter physics (…)

Examples

• solid

• fluid

• gas

• plasma

• quark-gluon plasma

• topological phase of matter, topological state of matter

  topological order

• quasicrystal

Related concepts

• phase transition

• thermodynamic limit

• quantum material

References

General

See also

• Wikipedia, Phase_(matter)

• Wikipedia, State of matter

• Wikipedia, Phase diagram

In QCD

On the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics:

• Edward Shuryak, The Phases of QCD (arXiv:hep-ph/9609249)

• Simon Hands, The Phase Diagram of QCD, Contemp. Phys. 42:209-225, 2001 (arXiv:physics/0105022)

• Thomas Schaefer, Phases of QCD (arXiv:hep-ph/0509068)