Subir Sachdev (Massachusetts Harvard University)

Quantum Phases of Matter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This modern text describes the exciting developments in many-particle quantum entanglement in matter. Its unified and pedagogical treatment of the topic makes it ideal for graduate students and researchers working in condensed matter physics, particle physics, and mathematical physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1240g
• ISBN-13: 9781009212694
• ISBN-10: 1009212699
• Artikelnr.: 66345673

Autorenporträt

Subir Sachdev is the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He has also held professional positions at Bell Labs and Yale University. He has been elected to national academies of science in India and the US and is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Dirac Medal from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, and the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Survey of experiments; Part I: Background: 2. Fermi liquid theory; 3. Dilute Bose gas; 4. BCS theory of superconductivity; 5. Broken symmetry and superfluidity; 6. LandaüGinzburg theory; 7. Vortices in superfluids; 8. Boson Hubbard model; 9. Electron Hubbard model; 10. Relativistic scalar field: diagrams; 11. Relativistic scalar field: correlation functions; 12. Fermions and bosons; Part II. Fractionalization and Emergent Gauge Fields I: 13. Introduction to gapped spin liquids; 14. Fractionalization in the XY model in 2+1 dimensions; 15. Theory of gapped Z2 spin liquids; 16. Z2 gauge theory; 17. Chern
Simons gauge theories; Part III. Band Topology: 18. Berry phases and Chern numbers; 19. Integer quantum Hall states; 20. Topological insulators and superconductors; Part IV. Fractionalization and Emergent Gauge Fields II: 21. Parton theories; 22. The chiral spin liquid; 23. Non-Abelian Ising anyons; 24. Fractional quantum hall states; 25. Dualities of XY models and U(1) gauge theories; 26. Applications of dualities to spin liquids; 27. Boson
fermion and fermion
fermion dualities; 28. Gapless spin liquids; Part V. Correlated Metals: 29. Kondo impurity model; 30. The heavy Fermi liquid; 31. The fractionalized Fermi liquid; 32. SYK models; 33. Random quantum spin liquids and spin glasses; 34. Fermi surfaces without quasiparticles; Appendix A. coherent state path integral; Appendix B. Grassman path integral; Appendix C. From spin Berry phases to background gauge charges; Appendix D. Emergent Z2 gauge theories; References; Index.