{"id":888,"date":"2013-04-04T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/?p=888"},"modified":"2013-04-04T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:04:36","slug":"piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/&amp;t=Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/&amp;title=Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/&amp;title=Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>In other news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.rutgers.edu\/%7Ecoleman\/\">Piers Coleman<\/a> just treated us today to a fascinating talk on &#8220;Spinors, Strings and Superconductors: Challenges of new era in Condensed Matter Physics&#8221;. He showed how frustration can lead to the emergence of exotic order parameters in low-dimensional magnets that might have appeared to lack long-range order. He also discussed a recent, fascinating proposal for the nature of the &#8220;hidden&#8221; order in URu2Si2 (one of the longest-standing challenges in condensed matter theory): <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1207.4828\">hastatic order<\/a>, a form of broken symmetry that would, unusually, mix states with integer and half-integer spin.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/&amp;t=Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/&amp;title=Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/&amp;title=Piers Coleman: Spinors, Strings and Superconductors' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other news, Piers Coleman just treated us today to a fascinating talk on &#8220;Spinors, Strings and Superconductors: Challenges of new era in Condensed Matter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2013\/04\/04\/piers-coleman-spinors-strings-and-superconductors\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,1129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}