P.G. de Gennes' Impact on Science - Volume I: Solid State and Liquid Crystals

Devoted to the scientific impact of the works of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, this book features renowned experts. It covers some of the areas which de Gennes completely revived. It contains the following topics: magnetism, superconductivity, macroscopic random medium and percolation, supersolids and liquid crystals.

List of contents

Preface (J Prost); Magnetism (J Friedel); Surface Bound States in Unconventional Superconductors: An Unforseen Consequence of Earlier Work by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Daniel Saint-James (G Deutscher); Superconductivity at High Temperature in the Cuprates (J Bok); Macroscopic Random Media and Percolation (J-P Hulin et al.); Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Supersolidity - Comment on C R Physique 7, 561-566 (2006) (S Balibar); On An Analogy Between Superconductors and Smectics-AA" (T Lubensky); On a Few Universal Aspects of Liquid Crystals (P Pieranski).

Product details

• Authors: Brochard-wyart Francoise
• Assisted by: Julien Bok (Editor), Francoise Brochard-Wyart (Editor), Jacques Prost (Editor)
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 257 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Series on Directions in Conden
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics