Basic Notions Of Condensed Matter Physics

by Anderson,Philip W.

• ISBN13: 9780201328301
• ISBN10: 0201328305
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physicsis a clear introduction to some of the most significant concepts in the physics of condensed matter. The general principles of many-body physics and perturbation theory are emphasised, providing supportive mathematical structure. This is an expansion and restatement of the second half of Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson's classicConcepts in Solids.

Author Biography

Philip W. Anderson is currently Joseph Henry Professor of Physics emeritus at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Basic Principles I: Broken Symmetry	p. 8
Basic Principles II: Adiabatic Continuity and Renormalization	p. 70
Solids, Quantum and Otherwise	p. 130
Uses of the Idea of the Renormalization Group in Many-Body Physics	p. 164
Reprints	p. 227
Coherent Matter Field Phenomena in Superfluids	p. 229
Considerations on the Flow of Superfluid Helium	p. 249
Broken Symmetry, Emergent Properties, Dissipative Structures, Life and Its Origin: Are They Related?	p. 262
Theory of Anisotropic Superfluidity in He[superscript 3]	p. 287
Principles of a Classification of Defects in Ordered Media	p. 389
Investigation of Singularities in Superfluid He[superscript 3] in Liquid Crystals by the Homotopic Topology Methods	p. 392
Phase Slippage without Vortex Cores: Vortex Textures in Superfluid [superscript 3]He	p. 403
On the Quantum Mechanics of Helium II	p. 407
Bose-Einstein Condensation and Liquid Helium	p. 412
Application of the Methods of Quantum Field Theory to a System of Bosons	p. 421
Energy-Spectrum of a Non-Ideal Bose Gas	p. 432
A "Fermi-Liquid" Description of the Kondo Problem at Low Temperatures	p. 441
Conductivity from Charge or Spin Density Waves	p. 453
Electric Field Depinning of Charge Density Waves	p. 460
Sliding Charge Density Waves	p. 471
Exact Results in the Kondo Problem II. Scaling Theory, Qualitatively Correct Solution, and Some New Results on One-Dimensional Classical Statistical Models	p. 473
A Poor Man's Derivation of Scaling Laws for the Kondo Problem	p. 483
Scaling Theory of the Asymmetric Anderson Model	p. 489
Ordering, Metastability and Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Systems	p. 493
Scaling Theory of Localization: Absence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions	p. 516
Scaling Theory of the Metal-Insulator Transition in Amorphous Metals	p. 520
Quantum Critical Phenomena	p. 525
Index	p. 545
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