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Principles of Condensed Matter Physics
Product Review "an important achievementit will strengthen the understanding by students and researchers for a long time to come." Physics Today "an important achievementamong the book's pedagogical features are a wealth of daunting problems, a pithy glossary of intimidating terms and concrete descriptions of experiments and technological applicationsit will strengthen the understanding by students and researchers for a long time to come." Physics Today "an great introduction to the processes by which atoms and molecules become materials and how materials acquire their properties. It is gorgeously organized to form the basis of a lecture course." Science "The present book is especially welcome at a time when we are witnessing vigorous activity in all fields concerned with ^soft matter.It contains a thorough and detailed treatment of all the subjects and is intended also to be suitable as a reference text for active researchers.This book presents a most fortunate blend of theoretical depth and encyclopedic grasp of phenomenology, while being written in a pedagogically sound and elegant manner.this monograph is a well-written, thorough, modern book on soft condensed matter physics that I wholeheartedly recommend to everybody with an interest in this subject." Rudolf Podgornik, Journal of Statistical Physics "For the interested researcher, the self-contained chapters provide succint overviews of the topics and more than enough information for going it alone into this exciting and evolving field." Science "The classic textbook for soft condensed matter" Physics Today Product Description Now in paperback, this book provides an overview of the physics of condensed matter systems. Assuming a familiarity with the basics of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the book establishes a general framework for describing condensed phases of matter based on symmetries and conservation laws. After surveying the structure and properties of materials with different symmetries, it explores the role of spatial dimensionality and microscopic interactions in determining the nature of phase transitions. Particular attention is given to critical phenomena and renormalization group methods. The properties of liquids, liquid crystals, quasicrystals, crystalline solids, magnetically ordered systems and amorphous solids are investigated in terms of their symmetry, generalized rigidity, hydrodynamics and topological defect structure. In addition to serving as a course text, this book is an essential reference for students and researchers in physics, applied physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering, who are interested in modern condensed matter physics. Reader Reviews Given my training as engineer in undergraduate and as polymer scientist in my MS, I find this book a challenging endevour. It presupposes knowledge of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, and is written in a style most beneficial for Physics graduate students. Nonetheless, since every serious student in material science and polymer physics must indeed become comfortable with soft matter physics, this book is a delightful introduction. The book by RAL Jones can provide a quick introduction to phenomenon and principles encountered in the book. But to master the trade, to become comfortable with notation used in papers, to understand the math, to make yourself a soft matter physicist, this book provides matter, paradigm and principles in comprehensive manner. Specifically book is essential reading for people studying physics of crystals, liquid crystals, amorphous materials, polymers and magnetically ordered systems. It provides detailed introduction to symmetry, phase transitions, field theories, scattering and correlation functions, and generalized elasticity and hydrodynamics. Each chapter and topic can be appreaciated by additional reading from a textbook each in Statistical Mechanics (Pathria), Electrodynamics (Slater and Frank), Quantum Mechanics, liquid crystals (chandrashekar or de gennes, polymers (doi, de gennes) and scattering (neutron-higgins, light-pecora). Like potential readers, I am myself a student, just starting on this daunting but worthwhile study of condensed matter. Comment | | (Report this)
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