Condensed Matter Physics
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Concepts viewed through this lens
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Disciplines it bridges to
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Condensed Matter Physicsconnects toPhysics
Shared concepts
Why this bridge exists
Bose–Einstein condensate emerges from Quantum mechanics — Bosons share one state.
Explore this connection →Condensed Matter Physicsconnects toInorganic Chemistry
Shared concepts
Why this bridge exists
Ionic bond enables Crystal lattice — Ionic bond enables Crystal lattice.
Explore this connection →Condensed Matter Physicsconnects toChemistry
Why this bridge exists
Ionic bond enables Crystal lattice — Ionic bond enables Crystal lattice.
Explore this connection →Condensed Matter Physicsconnects toAtomic Physics
Why this bridge exists
Quantum Hall effect applies to Electron — Conductance comes in steps.
Explore this connection →Condensed Matter Physicsconnects toEngineering
Why this bridge exists
Material strength depends on Crystal lattice — Strength comes from atomic structure.
Explore this connection →Condensed Matter Physicsconnects toMaterials Engineering
Why this bridge exists
Material strength depends on Crystal lattice — Strength comes from atomic structure.
Explore this connection →Condensed Matter Physicsconnects toQuantum Computing
Why this bridge exists
Topological qubit depends on Anyon — Store info in anyons.
Explore this connection →Condensed Matter Physicsconnects toQuantum Physics
Why this bridge exists
Bose–Einstein condensate emerges from Quantum mechanics — Bosons share one state.
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Field shape — representation health
58/100 overall · 18 concepts
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What kind of structure is this field?
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Representation health 58/100 — dense but shallow. Strongest: cross-disciplinary, taxonomy. Thinnest: factual depth, pedagogical.
structural · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.
Its 58 representation-health is above the 55 median of 210 similarly-sized disciplines (comparable by concept count).
structural · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.
Current atlas gaps: no dated concepts · no relation-level evidence.
atlas representation · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.
72% of its concepts have a single connection (mean internal degree 1.7) — a mostly shallow internal structure in the atlas.
structural · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.
35% of its relations reach into 8 other disciplines — largely self-contained in the atlas.
structural · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.
How this lens connects
The kinds of relationship that characterise this discipline lens in the current slice.
Coverage matrix
How these concepts distribute across domains and concept families — real counts, not a score.
Ideas that connect this discipline outward
Concepts viewed through this lens that reach disciplines it does not itself carry — concept-level bridges (distinct from the discipline-to-discipline bridges below).
- Crystal latticereachesChemistryEngineeringMaterials Engineering
- Band theoryreachesChemistryPhysics
People represented in this atlas
People tagged with this lens who have a recorded contribution. Not exhaustive, and not a ranking.
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1853–1926
- Pyotr Kapitsa
1894–1984
- Satyendra Nath Bose
1894–1974
- Nevill Francis Mott
1905–1996
- Ettore Majorana
1906–1938
- John F. Allen
1908–2001
- David Bohm
1917–1992
- David Pines
1924–2018
- Leon Cooper
1930–2024
- 18 concepts are viewed through this lens.
- 2 of them bridge into other disciplines.
- The most common kind of connection here is “Cause & effect”.
- It is most tightly linked to Physics.
Derived from the current graph structure — observations, not a judgement of the field.