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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/1995
SUMMARY:Chiral critical matter
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Leo Radzihovsky \, UC Boulder\nHosted by: Christopher
	 Laumann\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/internal//files/download/Radzihovsk
	y-poster.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nI will 
	take the audience on a bit of a rollercoaster ride\, pedagogically discussi
	ng a recently discovered exotic liquid crystal state\, the heliconical nema
	tic\, that emerges as a result of a spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking\, 
	a holy grail dating back to Louis Pasteur. I will also explain how low-ener
	gy physics of this and related states of matter can be understood as an eme
	rgent Higgs mechanism\, with critical fluctuations extending throughout the
	 low-temperature phase.
LOCATION:SCI 109\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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