Did a 1-dimensional magnet detect a 248-dimensional Lie algebra?

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Authors: David Borthwick, Skip Garibaldi 

Publication date: 10 October 2011

Abstract: About a year ago, a team of physicists reported in Science that they had observed "evidence for E8 symmetry" in the laboratory. This expository article is aimed at mathematicians and explains the chain of reasoning connecting measurements on a quasi-1-dimensional magnet with a 248-dimensional Lie algebra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5407

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-02) Exceptional (super)algebras (17B25) Experimental work for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-05)

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