The Net Advance of Physics:

CONDENSED MATTER

GENERAL AND VARIOUS:

• Overviews:
  • Quantum Theory of Large Systems of Non-Relativistic Matter, by J. Froehlich, U.M. Studer and E. Thiran, 95/08
  • Order Parameters, Broken Symmetry, and Topology, by James Sethna, 1992
• Mathematical Methods:
  • Computational Physics for Condensed Matter Theorists, by Angus MacKinnon
• Various Topics:
  • Case Western Textbook on Polymers and Liquid Crystals, 1996
  • Sonoluminescence Overview and Future Applications, by Aaron Levinson, 96/01
  • Hysteresis and Avalanches, by James Sethna, 95/05
  • LDA Code, by Stephen Jenkins, 95/05
  • Pattern Formation in Binary Fluid Convection (general readership article), by Kristina Lerman, 94/09
  • Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes, by Vladimir Privman, 93/12
  • Polaron Excitations in Fullerenes, by Kikuo Harigaya, 92/09

MATERIALS:

• General Materials Science Overviews:
  • The World of Materials, by Diana C. Chiang, 95/11 (Introductory level survey)
• Glasses:
  • Aging in Disordered Systems, by Heiko Rieger, 95/07
• Heavy-Electron Metals:
  • Heavy Fermion Superconductivity, by Robert H. Heffner and Michael R. Norman, 95/06
• Ladder Materials:
  • Surprises on the Way from 1D to 2D Quantum Magnets: the Novel Ladder Materials, by E. Dagotto and T. M. Rice, 95/09
• Liquid Crystals:
  • Case Western Textbook on Polymers and Liquid Crystals, 1996
• Martensites:
  • What are Martensites?, by James Sethna, 95/02
• Polymers:
  • Case Western Textbook on Polymers and Liquid Crystals, 1996
• Spin Glasses:
  • NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS: Spin Glasses

QUANTUM HALL EFFECT:

• Quantum Theory of Large Systems of Non-Relativistic Matter, by J. Froehlich, U.M. Studer and E. Thiran, 95/08
• Scaling Theory of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect, by Bodo Huckestein, 95/01
• Physics of the Quantum Hall Regime, by A. H. MacDonald, 94/10

QUANTUM LIQUIDS:

• Fermi:
  • One-Dimensional Fermi liquids, by Johannes Volt, 95/10
  • Renormalization Group Methods: Landau-Fermi Liquid and BCS Superconductor, by J. Froehlich, T. Chen and M. Seifert, 95/08
  • Fermi liquids and non--Fermi liquids, by H. J. Schulz, 95/03
• Feynman-Wilson:
  • Theoretical Search for Collective Effects in Multiparticle Production, by I. M. Dremin and A. V. Leonidov, 95/03 page 11
• Instanton:
  • General
  • Near Chiral Phase Transition
  • Glueballs and ...
• Luttinger:
  • One-Dimensional Fermi liquids, by Johannes Volt, 95/10
  • Fermi liquids and non--Fermi liquids, by H. J. Schulz, 95/03
• Quantum Hall:
  • Quantum Theory of Large Systems of Non-Relativistic Matter, by J. Froehlich, U.M. Studer and E. Thiran, 95/08

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