Selected Papers of J Robert Schrieffer: In Celebration of His 70th Birthday (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, V. 30)

Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics is a clear introduction to some of the most significant concepts in the physics of condensed matter. The general principles of many-body physics and perturbation theory are emphasised, providing supportive mathematical structure. This is an expansion and restatement of the second half of Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson’s classic Concepts in Solids BCS Theory; Electrons and Phonons; Theory of Magnetism and Magnetic Impurities; Surface Physics; High-Tc Superconductivity; Solitons and Fractional Quantum Numbers; The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect I. Superconductivity. The BCS theory of superconductivity / Douglas J. Scalapino -- Microscopic theory of superconductivity / with J. Bardeen and L.N. Cooper -- Theory of superconductivity / with J. Bardeen and L.N. Cooper -- Theory of the Meissner effect / with D. Pines -- Excitons and plasmons in superconductors / with A. Bardasis -- Calculation of the quasiparticle recombination time in a superconductor / with D.M. Ginsberg -- The effect of collective excitations on the single particle spectra of nuclei -- Effective tunneling density of states in superconductors / with D.J. Scalapino and J.W. Wilkins -- Strong-coupling superconductivity / with D.J. Scalapino and J.W. Wilkins -- Effect of ferromagnetic spin correlations on superconductivity / with N.F. Berk -- On the description of nearly ferromagnetic fermion systems / with N.F. Berk -- The sign of the interference current component in superconducting tunnel junctions / with A.B. Zorin, I.O. Kulik and K.K. Likharev -- Rotating superfluidity in nuclei / with G.F. Bertsch and R.A. Broglia -- John Bardeen -- Spectral properties of quasiparticle excitations induced by magnetic moments in superconductors / with M.I. Salkola and A.V. Balatsky -- Intrinsic limits on the Q and intermodulation of low power high temperature superconducting microstrip resonators / with R.B. Hammond [und weitere] -- II. Solitons and fractional quantum numbers. Some basic aspects of fractional quantum numbers / Frank Wilczek -- Dynamics and statistical mechanics of a one-dimensional model Hamiltonian for structural phase transitions / with J.A. Krumhansl -- Brownian motion of a domain wall and the diffusion constants / with Y. Wada -- Soliton excitations in polyacetylene / with W.P. Su and A.J. Heeger -- Soliton dynamics in polyacetylene / with W.P. Su -- Fractionally charged excitations in charge-density-wave systems with commensurability 3 / with W.P. Su -- Solitons with fermion number 1/2 in condensed matter and relativistic field theories / with R. Jackiw -- Fractional charge, a sharp quantum observable / with S. Kivelson -- Solitons in superfluid [symbol]He-A: bound states on domain walls / with T.L. Ho, J.R. Fulco and F. Wilczek -- Collective coordinate description of soliton dynamics in trans-polyacetylene-like systems / with S. Jeyadev -- Statistical mechanics of anyons / with D.P. Arovas, F. Wilczek and A. Zee -- Lattice relaxation effects on the midgap absorption edge in trans-polyacetylene / with S. Jeyadev -- Shape of solitons in classically forbidden states: "Lorentz expansion" / with F. Guinea and R.E. Peierls -- Topological excitations of one-dimensional correlated electron systems / with M.I. Salkola -- Fractional electrons in liquid helium? / with R. Jackiw and C. Rebbe This invaluable book is a selection of papers by theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate J Robert Schrieffer. In addition to his Nobel Prize-winning work in superconductivity, Prof Schrieffer has made significant contributions to a wide variety of topics in condensed matter physics. These include the theory of soliton excitations in polyacetylene (a clear example of spin-charge separation in a condensed matter system), paramagnon theory, magnetic impurities, the physics of surfaces, high-Tc superconductivity, and the fractional quantum Hall effect.The papers are reviewed and placed in context by leading experts. The guest contributors are A Alexandrov (on electrons and phonons), T Einstein (on surfaces,) S Kivelson (on quantum Hall effect), D Scalapino (on the BCS theory of superconductivity), F Wilczek (on solitons and fractional quantum numbers), J W Wilkins (on magnetic impurities) and S C Zhang (on high-Tc superconductivity). A selection of papers by theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate J. Robert Schrieffer. In addition to his Nobel Prize-winning work in superconductivity, Schrieffer has contributed to a variety of topics in condensed matter physics. The papers are reviewed and placed in context by experts. SINCE the discovery of the isotope effect, it has been known that superconductivity arises from the interaction between electrons and lattice vibrations, but it has proved difficult to construct an adequate theory based on this concept. Editors, N.e. Bonesteel. L.p. Gorʹkov. Includes Bibliographical References.