This book presents articles written by leading experts surveying
several major subfields in Condensed Matter Physics and related
sciences. The articles are based on invited talks presented at a
recent conference honoring Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson of
Princeton University, who coined the phrase "More is different" while
formulating his contention that all fields of physics, indeed all of
science, involve equally fundamental insights. The articles introduce
and survey current research in areas that have been close to
Anderson's interests. Together, they illustrate both the deep impact
that Anderson has had in this multifaceted field during the past half
century and the progress spawned by his insights. The contributors
cover numerous topics under the umbrellas of superconductivity,
superfluidity, magnetism, electron localization, strongly interacting
electronic systems, heavy fermions, and disorder and frustration in
glass and spin-glass systems. They also describe interdisciplinary
areas such as the science of olfaction and color vision, the screening
of macroions in electrolytes, scaling and renormalization in
cosmology, forest fires and the spread of measles, and the
investigation of "NP-complete" problems in computer science. The
articles are authored by Philip W. Anderson, Per Bak and Kan Chen, G.
Baskaran, Juan Carlos Campuzano, Paul Chaikin, John Hopfield, Bernhard
Keimer, Scott Kirkpatrick and Bart Selman, Gabriel Kotliar, Patrick
Lee, Yoshiteru Maeno, Marc Mezard, Douglas Osheroff et al., H. R. Ott,
L. Pietronero et al., T. V. Ramakrishnan, A. Ramirez, Myriam Sarachik,
T. Senthil and Matthew P. A. Fisher, B. I. Shklovskii et al., and F.
Steglich et al.
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Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780691219530
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Princeton University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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