Defects & Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics

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1 Review. A pedagogic graduate level introduction to the field of defects and geometry, first published in /5(1). Defects and geometrical patterns embedded in orderly arrays of atoms and molecules explain important everyday phenomena such as why soap is slippery, why steel is strong, and how a liquid crystal display device works.

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Defects and Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics This book describes the key role played by thermally excited defects such as vortices, disclinations, dislocations, vacancies and interstitials in the physics of crystals, superfluids, superconductors, liquid crystals and polymer arrays.

Defects and Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics, David R. Nelson Cambridge U. Press, New York, $, $40 paper ( pp.). ISBN ISBN (paper) Buy at Amazon For 25 years, David Nelson has made major contributions to the study of how defects influence the properties of such condensed matter systems as solids, liquid crystals, superfluids, and polymer Cited by: Defects & Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics book to the book xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 Fluctuations, renormalization and universality 1 Fluctuations and universality in condensed matter physics 2 The universal Prandtl number in two-dimensional hydrodynamics 5 The universal Poisson ratio in fluctuating polymerized membranes 8 Defect-mediated phase transitions and.

Defects in superfluids, superconductors and membranes; 7. Vortex line fluctuations in superconductors from elementary quantum mechanics; 8. Correlations and transport in. Download Citation | Defects and Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics | 1. Fluctuations, renormalization and universality; 2.

Defect mediated phase transitions; 3. Order, frustration; 4. The. Together with other chapters of this book devoted to solid materials, it illustrates the unifying power of the concept of defect in condensed matter physics by extending it to the understanding of mesoscopic structures formed by fluid materials.

Fluctuations and universality in condensed matter physics 2 The universal Prandtl number in two-dimensional hydrodynamics 5 The universal Poisson ratio in fluctuating polymerized membranes 8 Defect-mediated phase transitions and hydrodynamic theories 12 The contents of this book 18 Appendix A Renormalization   Defects and Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics by David R.

Nelson,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.5/5(2). Defects and geometry in condensed matter physics. [David R Nelson] -- 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.

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 book, David Nelson provides a coherent and pedagogic graduate level introduction to the field of defects and : David R. Nelson. Book Review: Defects and Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics. Nelson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Felix Ritort 1Author: Felix Ritort.

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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 book, David Nelson provides a coherent and pedagogic graduate level introduction to the field of defects and geometry.

Not Available adshelp[at] The ADS is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under NASA Cooperative Agreement NNX16AC86ACited by: Concepts drawn from topology and geometry have become essential to the understanding of several phenomena in the area.

The main purpose of this book is to provide a brief, self-contained introduction to some mathematical ideas and methods from differential geometry and topology, and to show a few applications in condensed matter.

Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: / probes but instead generally require particular sample characteristics for successful detection of atomic locations and defect geometry. They are nevertheless extremely powerful techniques when handled well. Condensed-Matter Physics Get This Book.

Apart from the above, the book presents the general differential geometry of defects in spaces with curvature and torsion and establishes contact with the modern theory of gravity with torsion. This book is written for condensed matter physicists and field theorists. Buy Defects and Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics by David R.

Nelson from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones Pages: Applications from condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics and elementary particle theory appear in the book. An obvious omission here is general relativity--we apologize for this. We originally intended to discuss general relativity.

However, both the need to keep the size of the book within the reasonable limits and the fact that accounts of the topology and geometry of relativity are.