Audio Edition: New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder

About this episode

The episode discusses a new method that could help mathematicians understand matrices reflecting both order and randomness.

For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that model semiconductors. A new method could change that. The story New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

Topics covered

• mathematics
• physics
• randomness
• semiconductors
• disorder

Keywords

• matrices
• order
• randomness
• semiconductors
• new method

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