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Quantum limit to transparency
Angelo Esposito, Alberto Nicolis, Federico Piazza
We argue that no material can be made completely transparent to light as long as it has a nontrivial index of refraction. The quantum decay of photons into phonons is an ineliminab…
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Effective Field Theories for Material Media
Angelo Esposito, Alberto Nicolis, Riccardo Penco
We review recent progress in understanding certain aspects of condensed matter systems from a high energy theory perspective. We discuss effective field theories that describe coll…