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Theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson has been described as one of the most imaginative of condensed matter physicists working today. His achievements have not merely constituted significant discoveries in their own right, but have also frequently set the agenda for the work of ot...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 1994. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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World Scientific series in 20th century physics ;
v. 7 |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2314#t=toc |
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Theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson has been described as one of the most imaginative of condensed matter physicists working today. His achievements have not merely constituted significant discoveries in their own right, but have also frequently set the agenda for the work of others. His pioneering contributions include the Anderson model of magnetic impurities and the concept of localisation, both of which were mentioned in his Nobel Prize citation. He also worked on the study of spin glasses, the fluctuating valence problem and superexchange. He predicted the existence of superfluidity in He-3 and provided a microscopic explanation, and was involved in the discovery of the Josephson effect. The understanding of topics as diverse as the Higgs mechanism, pulsar glitches, high Tc superconductivity, flux creep and flow in superconducting magnets and the solution of the Kondo problem has benefited from his contributions. This volume contains a discriminating selection of the many topics on which Philip Anderson has worked. Some of the papers included are now hard to find elsewhere, and each has been embellished with commentary on how they came to be written. Anderson has also provided an entertaining introduction setting out his philosophy of what is important in science. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi,678pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789812385123 |
| Index Number: | QC20 |
| CLC: | O41 |
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More is different -- 1. Theory of ferroelectric behaviour of barium titanate -- 2. Use of stochastic methods in line-broadening problems -- 3. Qualitative considerations on the statistics of the phase transition in BaTiO[symbol]-type ferroelectrics -- 4. Theory of dirty superconductors -- 5. Calculation of the superconducting state parameters with retarded electron-phonon interaction / with P. Morel -- 6. Plasmons, gauge invariance, and mass -- 7. Hard superconductors. Hard superconductivity: theory of the motion of Abrikosov flux lines / with Y.B. Kim -- 8. Exchange in magnetic insulators -- 9. Superconductivity / with B.T. Matthias -- 10. Coherent matter field phenomena in superfluids -- 11. Considerations on the flow of superfluid helium -- 12. Multiple-scattering theory and resonances in transition metals / with W.L. McMillan -- 13. The Kondo effect I. The Kondo effect II. Kondo effect III: the wilderness - mainly theoretical. Kondo effect IV: out of the wilderness -- 14. Superconductivity in the past and future -- 15. Macroscopic coherence and superfluidity -- 16. The Fermi glass: theory and experiment -- 17. Space-time and scaling techniques in the Kondo problem -- 18. Comments on the maximum superconducting transition temperature. Comment on 'Model for an Exciton Mechanism of Superconductivity' / with J.C. Inkson -- 19. Conference summary -- 20. Asymptotically exact methods in the Kondo problem / with G. Yuval -- 21. Many-body effects at surfaces -- 22. Uses of solid state analogies in elementary particle theory -- 23. Possible consequences of negative U centers in amorphous materials -- 24. Survey of theories of spin glass -- 25. Disorder: a frontier of theoretical physics -- 26. Some general thoughts about broken symmetry -- 27. The rheology of neutron stars: vortex line pinning in the crust superfluid / with M.A. Alpar, D. Pines and J. Shaham -- 28. Localization redux -- 29. Chemical pseudopotentials -- 30. Some remarks on strong electron-phonon coupling metals / with C.C. Yu. 31. Spin glass Hamiltonians: a bridge between biology, statistical mechanics and computer science -- 32. Measurement in quantum theory and the problem of complex systems -- 33. It's not over till the fat lady sings -- 34. Spin glass I: a scaling law rescued. Spin glass II: is there a phase transition? Spin glass III: theory raises its head. Spin glass IV: glimmerings of trouble. Spin glass V: real power brought to bear. Spin glass VI: spin glass as cornucopia. Spin glass VII: spin glass as paradigm -- 35. Valence instabilities and related narrow-band phenomena -- 36. Present status of theory: 1/N approach -- 37. The problem of fluctuating valence in f-electron metals -- 38. Some ideas on the aesthetics of science -- 39. Theoretical paradigms for the sciences of complexity. 40. 50 years of the Mott phenomenon: insulators, magnets, solids, and superconductors as aspects of strong-repulsion theory -- 41. The "central dogmas" -- 42. The "infrared catastrophe": when does it trash Fermi liquid theory? -- 43. Experimental constraints on the theory of high-Tc superconductivity. |