Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics
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Author(s): S. Rao (Ed.)
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISBN: 0750308761
Format: softback
408pp
Price: £35.00, $49.99
Review Date: 18 July 2002
Review: This book came out of a SERC school on Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics, held at the Karisha-Chandra Research Institute in Spring 2000. It is the latest in the IOP’s series on condensed matter physics. The application of field techniques to problems in condensed matter physics has generated a range of concepts and mathematical techniques such as the theory of phase transitions, the quantum Hall effect and quantum wires. This book includes chapters on: Quantum many particle physics; Critical phenomena; Phase transitions and critical phenomena; Topological defects; An introduction to bosonization; The quantum Hall effect; and Low-dimensional Quantum Spin Systems.