From Compactifications to Topological Insulators
- Author
- Chetan Pandey
- Published
- Mon 13 Jul 2020
- Episode Link
- https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chetan-pandey8/episodes/From-Compactifications-to-Topological-Insulators-egm2pc
In this episode, we discuss the interesting ideas of spontaneous compactification of higher dimensions in theories like string theory, the Kaluza-Klein picture, etc. We then ramble about aspects of bulk-boundary correspondence and topological invariants in condensed matter physics.
