內容簡介
這是一本凝聚態物理學的研究生教材。書中內容以相當大的篇幅介紹“軟”凝聚態物理(液體、液晶等)以及非公度晶體、準晶、非晶態固體、拓撲缺陷、孤子等傳統固體物理中很少討論的課題。在理論上強調了序參量。對稱性破缺、廣義剛度等概念,並系統介紹了重正化群理論及其在凝聚態物理中的套用。本書每章末附有習題和參考文獻。
此書為英文版。
目錄
Preface
1 Overview
1.1 Condensed matter physics
1.2 An example-H2o
1.3 Energies and potentials
Bibliorgbhy
References
2 Structure and scattering
2.1 Elementary scattering theory-Bragg's law
2.2 Photons neutruons or elctrons
2.3 The density operator and its correlation functions
2.4 Lipuids and gases
2.5 Crystalline Sokids
2.6 Symmerty and crystal structure
2.7 Liquid crystals
2.8 One-and two-dimensional order in three-dimensional materials
2.9 Incommensurate structures
2.10 Quasicrystals
2.11 Magnetic order
2.12 Random isotopic fractls
3 Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
4 Mean-field theory
5 Field theories,critical phenomena and the reormalization group
6 Generalized elasticity
7 Dynamics:correlation and response
8 Hydrodynamics
9 Topological defects
10 Walls kinks and solitons
Bibliograhy
References
Problems
Golssary