PWA90 : a lifetime of emergence /
"In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W. Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase "More is Different", Anderson has been the most forceful and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, vie...
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World Scientific,
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Publisher Address: | New Jersey : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
"In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W. Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase "More is Different", Anderson has been the most forceful and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, viewpoint of emergent phenomena: truly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale. Anderson's ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of physics, including the Anderson-Higgs mechanism and the dynamics of pulsars. PWA90: A Lifetime of Emer |
Carrier Form: | ix, 222 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
9789814733625 9814733628 9789814733618 981473361X |
Index Number: | QC173 |
CLC: |
O413 O469 |
Call Number: | O469/P549 |
Contents: | Recollections of a graduate student / Khandkar A. Muttalib -- P.W. Anderson seen through the eyes of a student / Clare C. Yu -- Random walks in Anderson's garden: a journey from cuprates to Cooper pair insulators and beyond / Ganputhy Baskaran -- Some reminiscences on Anderson localization / Elihu Abrahams -- Anderson and condensed matter physics / T.V. Ramakrishnan -- Superfluidity and symmetry breaking: an Anderson living legacy / Frank Wilczek -- Phil Anderson and gauge symmetry breaking / Edward Witten -- A short history of the theory and experimental discovery of superfluidity in 3He / |