More is Different: Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics

Published by Princeton University Press 2001

More is Different

Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics

Edited by: Nai-Phuan Ong and Ravin Bhatt

Volume 38 in the series Princeton Series in Physics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691219530

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About this book

This book presents articles written by leading experts surveying several major subfields in Condensed Matter Physics and related sciences. The articles are based on invited talks presented at a recent conference honoring Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson of Princeton University, who coined the phrase "More is different" while formulating his contention that all fields of physics, indeed all of science, involve equally fundamental insights. The articles introduce and survey current research in areas that have been close to Anderson's interests. Together, they illustrate both the deep impact that Anderson has had in this multifaceted field during the past half century and the progress spawned by his insights. The contributors cover numerous topics under the umbrellas of superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetism, electron localization, strongly interacting electronic systems, heavy fermions, and disorder and frustration in glass and spin-glass systems. They also describe interdisciplinary areas such as the science of olfaction and color vision, the screening of macroions in electrolytes, scaling and renormalization in cosmology, forest fires and the spread of measles, and the investigation of "NP-complete" problems in computer science.

The articles are authored by Philip W. Anderson, Per Bak and Kan Chen, G. Baskaran, Juan Carlos Campuzano, Paul Chaikin, John Hopfield, Bernhard Keimer, Scott Kirkpatrick and Bart Selman, Gabriel Kotliar, Patrick Lee, Yoshiteru Maeno, Marc Mezard, Douglas Osheroff et al., H. R. Ott, L. Pietronero et al., T. V. Ramakrishnan, A. Ramirez, Myriam Sarachik, T. Senthil and Matthew P. A. Fisher, B. I. Shklovskii et al., and F. Steglich et al.

Author / Editor information

N.-Phuan Ong is Professor of Physics and Ravin N. Bhatt is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Both are affiliated with the Princeton Materials Institute.

Reviews

"I would recommend the book to condensed matter theoretical physicists who are interested in the broad range of complexity theory and exploring outside their usual bailiwick. Some elementary particle physicists would also have their horizons widened by reading the book."---Charlie Ironside, Contemporary Physics

"This book fills a need for an accessible introduction to some problems at the forefront of condensed-matter physics research. . . . The editors have done an excellent job of assembling articles that offer a concrete and comprehensive demonstration of [Anderson's] original thesis."---Stephen Julian, Times Higher Education Supplement

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE N. Phuan Ong and Ravin N. Bhatt Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1950 TO Y2K E. Abrahams Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1 MORE IS DIFFERENT - ONE MORE TIME Philip W. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 LOCALIZATION YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW T. V. Ramakrishnan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3 METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS IN DISORDERED SYSTEMS Myriam P. Sarachik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 THE NATURE OF SUPERFLUID ³HE IN SILICA AEROGEL D. D. Osheroff, B. I. Barker and Y. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
5 RVB DESCRIPTION OF HIGH-T_c SUPERCONDUCTORS Patrick A. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
6 ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION RESULTS IN CUPRATES J. C. Campuzano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
7 SPIN EXCITATIONS IN COPPER OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS B. Keimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
8 ANDERSON'S THEORY OF HIGH-T_c SUPERCONDUCTIVITY G. Baskaran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
9 QUANTUM CONFINEMENT AND CUPRATE CRITICALITY T. Senthil and Matthew P. A. Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
10 SPIN-TRIPLET SUPERCONDUCTIVITY OF SR₂RUO₄ Y. Maeno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
11 TRIPLET QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS S. E. Brown, M. J. Naughton, I. J. Lee, E. I. Chashechkina and P. M. Chaikin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
12 MAGNETIC MOMENTS IN METALS H. R. Ott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
13 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND MAGNETISM IN HEAVY-FERMIONS F. Steglich, P. Gegenwart, C. Geibel, P. Hinze, M. Lang, C. Langhammer, G. Sparn, T. Tayama, O. Trovarelli, N. Sato, T. Dahm and G. Varelogiannis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
14 THE MOTT TRANSITION G. Kotliar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
15 FIRST STEPS IN GLASS THEORY Marc Mézard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
16 GEOMETRICAL FRUSTRATION AND MARGINAL CONSTRAINT A. P. Ramirez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
17 OLFACTION AND COLOR VISION: MORE IS SIMPLER J. J. Hopfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
18 SCREENING AND GIANT CHARGE INVERSION IN ELECTROLYTES T. T. Nguyen, A. Yu. Grosberg and B. I. Shklovskii Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
19 FOREST FIRES AND LUMINOUS MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE Per Bak and Kan Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
20 COMPLEXITY IN COSMOLOGY L. Pletronero, M. Joyce, M. Montuori and F. Sylos Labini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
21 STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY S. Klrkpatrick and B. Selman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331