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The study of matter with many interacting degrees of freedom in condensed phases, emphasizing collective behavior, material properties, phases, and emergent quasiparticles rather than only isolated constituents.
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Equilibrium thermodynamics supplies state variables, potentials, stability criteria, and phase coexistence conditions for macroscopic materials.
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Nonrelativistic quantum-field and many-body operator methods describe variable occupation, collective modes, symmetry breaking, and low-energy excitations in condensed matter. Condensed-matter physics also uses methods not organized as relativistic QFT.
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Statistical mechanics supplies the ensemble, fluctuation, and phase-transition framework used throughout condensed-matter physics.
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Electronic condensed matter is a central class of systems studied using quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, and material-specific structure.
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Condensed-matter physics describes quantum many-body systems and their material, collective, and low-energy behavior.
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