Principles of Condensed Matter Physics

Klappentext This successful and widely-reviewed book covering the physics of condensed matter systems is now available in paperback. Zusammenfassung An overview of the physics of condensed matter systems! written in a clear! pedagogic style with extensive examples of real-world systems. Serves as a course text as well as an essential reference for students and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Overview; 2. Structure and scattering; 3. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; 4. Mean-field theory; 5. Field theories, critical phenomena, and the renormalization group; 6. Generalized elasticity; 7. Dynamics: correlation and response; 8. Hydrodynamics; 9. Topological defects; 10. Walls, kinks and solitons; Glossary; Index.

Product details

• Authors: P. M. Chaikin, Paul M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2000
• EAN: 9780521794503
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79450-3
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 245 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Elektronik, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Materialwissenschaft, SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter, Festkörperchemie