Boulevard of Broken Symmetries: Effective Field Theories of Condensed Matter

ISBN-13: 9789812813909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 412 str.

Adriaan M. J. Schakel

Opis

Covers the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics, using quantum field theory in the functional-integral approach. This book highlights symmetry aspects in acknowledging that much of the collective behaviors of condensed matter systems at low temperatures emerge above a nontrivial ground state, which breaks the symmetry.