Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics

by Eduardo Fradkin

• ISBN13: 9780521764445
• ISBN10: 0521764440
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-04-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Presenting the physics of the most challenging problems in condensed matter using the conceptual framework of quantum field theory, this book is of great interest to physicists in condensed matter and high energy and string theorists, as well as mathematicians. Revised and updated, this second edition features new chapters on the renormalization group, the Luttinger liquid, gauge theory, topological fluids, topological insulators and quantum entanglement. The book begins with the basic concepts and tools, developing them gradually to bring readers to the issues currently faced at the frontiers of research, such as topological phases of matter, quantum and classical critical phenomena, quantum Hall effects and superconductors. Other topics covered include one-dimensional strongly correlated systems, quantum ordered and disordered phases, topological structures in condensed matter and in field theory and fractional statistics.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Hubbard model

The magnetic instability of the Fermi system

The renormalization group and scaling

One-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets

The Luttinger liquid

Sigma models and topological terms

Spin liquid states

Gauge theory, dimer models, and topological phases

Chiral spin states and anyons

Anyon superconductivity

Topology and quantum Hall effect

The fractional quantum Hall effect

Topological fluids

Physics at the edge

Topological insulators

Quantum entanglement

References

Index

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