Field theories of condensed matter systems Eduardo Fradkin
Publisher: Perseus Books (Sd)

Close connections between condensed matter problems and string theory have emerged. €Many condensed matter systems are such that their collective excitations at low energies can be described by fields satisfying equations of motion formally indistinguishable from those of relativistic field theory. The AdS/CFT correspondence, discovered by string theorists, connects a string theory and gravity to a quantum field theory without gravity in one lower dimension. The limited nuclear testban treaty of 1963, to keep tactical nuclear weapons out of Vietnam, to invent adaptive optics (now used on most large optical telescopes), to prove the chemical stability of matter, and to introduce field theory into condensed matter physics. First, the general language of quantum field theory is developed in a way appropriate for dealing with systems having a large number of degrees of freedom. Gödel demonstrated that within a formal mathematical system with a finite number of rules some logical propositions would exist which could not be proved or disproved by the logical rules of that system. Download Free eBook:Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) (Repost) - Free chm, pdf ebooks rapidshare download, ebook torrents bittorrent download. This correspondence has been applied to quantum condensed matter systems, revealing new insights into quantum phase transitions (transitions at zero temperature) and strongly correlated electron states. Other topics covered include one-dimensional strongly correlated systems, quantum ordered and disordered phases, topological structures in condensed matter and in field theory and fractional statistics. Since you mention condensed matter physics, you must be aware that at low energy all condensed matter systems are described by effective field theories. (B)Theoretical Studies On a Variety of Aspects of Condensed Matter Physics, in Particular: Strongly Correlated Systems, Quantum Many-Body Theory and Magnetism, Exotic Order and Quantum Criticality; Phase Transitions, of Particle Physics and Beyond, Physics of and At High Energy Particle Colliders, Field Theory in Non-Commutative Space Time, Quantum Information Theory, Applications of Quantum Field Theory To Condensed Matter Systems, String Theory.