My Favorite Papers

References

  • Leon Balents, Spin liquids in frustrated magnets , Nature 464 (2010), no. 7286, 199–208.
  • Xie Chen, Zheng Cheng Gu, Zheng Xin Liu, and Xiao Gang Wen, Symmetry protected topological orders and the group cohomology of their symmetry group, Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 87 (2013), no. 15, 1–55.
  • Ching Kai Chiu, Jeffrey C.Y. Teo, Andreas P. Schnyder, and Shinsei Ryu, Classification of topological quantum matter with symmetries, Reviews of Modern Physics 88 (2016), no. 3, 1–70.
  • Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, 2001.
  • Alexei Kitaev and John Preskill, Topological entanglement entropy, Physical Review Letters 96 (2006), no. 11, 4–7.
  • N. D. Mermin, The topological theory of defects in ordered media, Reviews of Modern Physics 51 (1979), no. 3.
  • Frank Pollmann, Symmetry Protected Topological Phases in One-Dimensional Systems, Oxford University Press.
  • John Preskill, Lecture Notes for Physics 219 : Quantum Computation, no. June, 2004.
  • Anders W. Sandvik, Computational Studies of Quantum Spin Systems, 135 (2011), no. 2010.
  • Xiao-Gang Wen, Topological order: from long-range entangled quantum matter to an unification of light and electrons, ISRN Condensed Matter Physics 2013 (2012), 1–20.

I’d also like to recommend the Lectures on Gemeterical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics YouTube playlist by Fredric Schuller.

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