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ISBN 10: 0192584138
ISBN 13: 9780192584137
Author: Ross Mckenzie
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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