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There are many more states of matter than just solid, liquid, and gas. Examples include liquid crystal, magnet, glass, and superconductor. New states are continually, and unexpectedly, being discovered. Some states, such as superconductor, can act like Schrödinger’s cat and exhibit the weirdness normally associated with the quantum theory of atoms, photons, and electrons. Condensed matter physics seeks to understand how states of matter and their distinct physical properties emerge from the atoms of which a material is composed. A system of many interacting parts can have properties that the parts do not have. Water is wet, but a single water molecule is not. Your brain is conscious, but a single neuron is not. Such emergent phenomena are central to condensed matter physics and also occur in many fields, from biology to computer science to sociology, leading to rich intellectual connections. When do quantitative differences become qualitative differences? Can simple models describe rich and complex behaviour? What is the relationship between the particular and the universal? How is the abstract related to the concrete? Condensed matter physics is all about these big questions. The materials in silicon chips, liquid crystal displays, and magnetic computer memories, may have transformed society, but understanding them has transformed how we think about complex systems. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 What is condensed matter physics?
- Diamond versus graphite
- States of matter
- The central question of condensed matter physics
- Superconductivity
- Forerunners of condensed matter physics
- Emergence
- Another surprise
- Chapter 2 A multitude of states of matter
- Abrupt changes in properties
- Temperature scales
- Superconductors
- Superfluids
- Tourist maps for states of matter
- Something sublime
- Phase diagram of carbon
- Chapter 3 Symmetry matters
- Crystals
- X-ray crystallography
- Quasicrystals
- Continuous symmetries
- Macroscopic properties reflect microscopic symmetries
- Chapter 4 The order of things
- Magnetic order
- Back to the USSR
- Rigidity of ordered states
- Topological defects
- Chapter 5 Adventures in Flatland
- The Ising model
- Creating Flatland in a laboratory
- New states of matter
- The Woodstock of physics
- Chapter 6 The critical point
- Universality near the liquid‒gas critical point
- Universality of critical exponents
- Critical fluctuations
- Scaling
- Scale-free systems
- Chapter 7 Quantum matter
- Quantum steps
- Quantum interference
- Fundamental constants
- Macroscopic quantum effects in superconductors
- Macroscopic quantum effects in superfluids
- Josephson junctions
- Schrödinger’s cat is a squid
- Chapter 8 Topology matters
- Classical Hall effect
- Landau levels
- Integer quantum Hall effect
- From the practical to the abstract
- Fractional quantum Hall effect
- Quantum spin chains
- Topological insulators
- Chapter 9 Emergence: more is different
- Characteristics of emergent phenomena
- Emergence in condensed matter physics
- Quasiparticles
- The scientific challenge of emergence
- Emergence matters
- Chapter 10 An endless frontier
- Grand challenges
- Interdisciplinarity
- Technology
- Opportunities and threats
- An endless frontier?
- References
- Further reading
- Index
- Relativity
- Scientific Revolution
- Chaos
- Superconductivity
- Nuclear Power
- Crystallography
- Nothing
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