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solid state physics

Idea

The physics of solid condensed matter (made of fermions, due to the Pauli exclusion principle), also continuum mechanics.

Related concepts

• rigid body dynamics

• degeneracy pressure

• Levin-Wen model

• AdS-CFT – Relation to solid state physics

• topological order

• symmetry protected trivial order

• Josephson effect

• high energy physics

References

• Wikipedia, Solid state physics

• Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, Theory of Elasticity, part VII of Course of Theoretical Physics, 1959, 1970

• Ulrich Rössler, Solid State Theory: An Introduction, 2009