nLab Philip W. Anderson

Philip Warren Anderson (1923-2020)

  • Wikipedia entry

  • Premala Chandra, Piers Coleman, Clare C. Yu: Philip Warren Anderson, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society [arXiv:2510.20865]

Selected writings

Introducing what came to be known as Anderson localization:

Predicting quantum spin liquid (under the name “resonating valence bond states”):

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