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Item Details
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DEFECTS AND GEOMETRY IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
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| By: |
David R. Nelson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£58.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521004004 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521004008 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 March, 2002 |
| Pages: |
392 |
| Description: |
A pedagogic graduate level introduction to the field of defects and geometry, first published in 2002. |
| Synopsis: |
Thermally excited defects such as vortices, disclinations, dislocations, vacancies and interstitials play a key role in the physics of crystals, superfluids, superconductors, liquid crystals and polymer arrays. Geometrical aspects of statistical mechanics become particularly important when thermal fluctuations entangle or crumple extended line-like or surface-like objects in three dimensions. In the case of entangled vortices above the first-order flux lattice melting transition in high temperature superconductors, the lines themselves are defects. A variety of low temperature theories combined with renormalization group ideas are used to describe the delicate interplay between defects, statistical mechanics and geometry characteristic of these problems in condensed matter physics. In this 2002 book, David Nelson provides a coherent and pedagogic graduate level introduction to the field of defects and geometry. |
| Illustrations: |
140 b/w illus. 2 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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