Notes & Collections

Notes

Learnings and research diaries.

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Test: Gapped boundary theory of (2+1)d toric code in the continuum

Test: Dimensional analysis

Test: The Chinese translation of Memories of a Theoretical Physicist by Joseph Polchinski：《一名理论物理学家的回忆》.

Food for thought

Definitely not a complete list of anything - This collection is updated very irregularly.

• Iqbal and McGreevy: Mean string field theory: Landau-Ginzburg theory for 1-form symmetries.

• Thorngren, Vishwanath and Verresen: Intrinsically Gapless Topological Phases.

• Kapustin and Seiberg: Coupling a QFT to a TQFT and duality

• Beni Yoshida: Exotic topological order in fractal spin liquid.

A Weird collection

Here is a collection of non-mainstream works (for now) that I found intriguing.

• Hyperbolic band theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05489

• Magnetic hopfions

  1. 1. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00220-004-1110-y.pdf

     2. https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.247203

     3. https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00250

     4. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0305-4470/39/4/L05/pdf

     5. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.01682.pdf

• Drilling a fractal set of holes in toric code https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR21/Session/A31.12

• Using 2d materials to detect dark matter https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.115034

• Dynamics: Euler class

  1. 1. https://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/topology21/unal/pdf/Unal_Topology21_KITP.pdf

     2. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.053601

• To be continued