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The effect of strong interaction in quantum many-body systems tends to make their constituents be strongly correlated, resilting in configurations which are not just perturbations of the non-interacting or weakly interacting system.

The term strongly correlated systems hence refers in condensed matter theory largely to what in high energy physics are called non-perturbative effects.

The special properties of topologically ordered quantum materials are due strong correlation (of electrons, usually), such as for instance those of fractional quantum Hall systems.

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Relevance of non-perturbative field theory-methods in condensed matter theory (quantum materials) and quantum information theory (topological quantum computation):

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