More is Different Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics

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 phras...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ong, Nai-Phuan (Editor), Bhatt, Ravin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford Princeton University Press 2021, ©2001
Series:Princeton Series in Physics
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1950 TO Y2K
  • 1 MORE IS DIFFERENT - ONE MORE TIME
  • 2 LOCALIZATION YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
  • 3 METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS IN DISORDERED SYSTEMS
  • 4 THE NATURE OF SUPERFLUID 3HE IN SILICA AEROGEL
  • 5 RVB DESCRIPTION OF HIGH-Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS
  • 6 ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION RESULTS IN CUPRATES
  • 7 SPIN EXCITATIONS IN COPPER OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS
  • 8 ANDERSON'S THEORY OF HIGH-Tc SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
  • 9 QUANTUM CONFINEMENT AND CUPRATE CRITICALITY
  • 10 SPIN-TRIPLET SUPERCONDUCTIVITY OF SR2RUO4
  • 11 TRIPLET QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS
  • 12 MAGNETIC MOMENTS IN METALS
  • 13 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND MAGNETISM IN HEAVY-FERMIONS
  • 14 THE MOTT TRANSITION
  • 15 FIRST STEPS IN GLASS THEORY
  • 16 GEOMETRICAL FRUSTRATION AND MARGINAL CONSTRAINT
  • 17 OLFACTION AND COLOR VISION: MORE IS SIMPLER
  • 18 SCREENING AND GIANT CHARGE INVERSION IN ELECTROLYTES
  • 19 FOREST FIRES AND LUMINOUS MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE
  • 20 COMPLEXITY IN COSMOLOGY
  • 21 STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY