Nature Physics Research Highlight: Know your onions

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From the Trinity (A₃, B₃, H₃) to an ADE correspondence
Dechant, P-P., 24 Oct 2018, (Accepted/In press)
Article in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
The E8 geometry from a Clifford perspective
Dechant, P-P., 8 Mar 2017
Article in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras
Clifford algebra is the natural framework for root systems and Coxeter groups: Group theory: Coxeter, conformal and modular groups
Dechant, P-P., 1 Mar 2017
Article in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras
A 3D spinorial view of 4D exceptional phenomena
Dechant, P-P., Apr 2016, Symmetries in Graphs, Maps, and Polytopes. Springer-verlag, p. 81-95 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics; vol. 159).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
The birth of E8 out of the spinors of the icosahedron
Dechant, P-P., 2016
Article in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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Phase Transition Lowering in Dynamically Compressed Silicon
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Characterization of the shape-staggering effect in mercury nuclei
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An inconsistent friend
Pusey, M. F., 18 Sep 2018
Book/Film/Article review in Nature Physics
Nuclear physics: The skin of a nucleus
Watts, D. P., 2 Feb 2016
Comment/debate in Nature Physics
Triggering extreme events at the nanoscale in photonic seas
Liu, C., Van Der Wel, R. E. C., Rotenberg, N., Kuipers, L., Krauss, T. F., Di Falco, A. & Fratalocchi, A., 9 Mar 2015
Article in Nature Physics

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Published copy (DOI)

doi:10.1038/nphys2949

Author(s)

Pierre-Philippe Dechant

Department/unit(s)

Mathematics

Publication details

Journal	Nature Physics
Date	Published - 1 Apr 2014
Issue number	244
Volume	10
Number of pages	1
Pages (from-to)	244
Original language	English

Abstract

Many viruses have icosahedral symmetry. So do certain 'carbon onions' — Russian doll-like arrangements of nested fullerenes. Pierre-Philippe Dechant and colleagues argue that viruses and carbon onions share the same formation principle: affine symmetry.

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