Author: Subir Sachdev Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 113950021X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 521
Book Description
Describing the physical properties of quantum materials near critical points with long-range many-body quantum entanglement, this book introduces readers to the basic theory of quantum phases, their phase transitions and their observable properties. This second edition begins with a new section suitable for an introductory course on quantum phase transitions, assuming no prior knowledge of quantum field theory. It also contains several new chapters to cover important recent advances, such as the Fermi gas near unitarity, Dirac fermions, Fermi liquids and their phase transitions, quantum magnetism, and solvable models obtained from string theory. After introducing the basic theory, it moves on to a detailed description of the canonical quantum-critical phase diagram at non-zero temperatures. Finally, a variety of more complex models are explored. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics and particle and string theory.
Author: Lincoln Carr Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1439802610 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 754
Book Description
Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) offer wonderful examples of the radical macroscopic effects inherent in quantum physics: phase changes between different forms of matter driven by quantum rather than thermal fluctuations, typically at very low temperatures. QPTs provide new insight into outstanding problems such as high-temperature superconductivit
Author: Amit Dutta Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107068797 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 357
Book Description
This book establishes the fundamental connections between the physics of quantum phase transitions and the technological promise of quantum information.
Author: Sei Suzuki Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642330398 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 407
Book Description
Quantum phase transitions, driven by quantum fluctuations, exhibit intriguing features offering the possibility of potentially new applications, e.g. in quantum information sciences. Major advances have been made in both theoretical and experimental investigations of the nature and behavior of quantum phases and transitions in cooperatively interacting many-body quantum systems. For modeling purposes, most of the current innovative and successful research in this field has been obtained by either directly or indirectly using the insights provided by quantum (or transverse field) Ising models because of the separability of the cooperative interaction from the tunable transverse field or tunneling term in the relevant Hamiltonian. Also, a number of condensed matter systems can be modeled accurately in this approach, hence granting the possibility to compare advanced models with actual experimental results. This work introduces these quantum Ising models and analyses them both theoretically and numerically in great detail. With its tutorial approach the book addresses above all young researchers who wish to enter the field and are in search of a suitable and self-contained text, yet it will also serve as a valuable reference work for all active researchers in this area.
Author: William Unruh Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540708596 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Recently, analogies between laboratory physics (e.g. quantum optics and condensed matter) and gravitational/cosmological phenomena such as black holes have attracted an increasing interest. This book contains a series of selected lectures devoted to this new and rapidly developing field. Various analogies connecting (apparently) different areas in physics are presented in order to bridge the gap between them and to provide an alternative point of view.
Author: Kaden Richard Alan Hazzard Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1441981799 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 239
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The primary focus of this thesis is to theoretically describe nanokelvin experiments in cold atomic gases, which offer the potential to revolutionize our understanding of strongly correlated many-body systems. The thesis attacks major challenges of the field: it proposes and analyzes experimental protocols to create new and interesting states of matter and introduces theoretical techniques to describe probes of these states. The phenomena considered include the fractional quantum Hall effect, spectroscopy of strongly correlated states, and quantum criticality, among others. The thesis also clarifies experiments on disordered quantum solids, which display a variety of exotic phenomena and are candidates to exhibit so-called "supersolidity." It collects experimental results and constrains their interpretation through theoretical considerations. This Doctoral Thesis has been accepted by Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
Author: Vladimir Dobrosavljevic Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199592594 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 583
Book Description
When many particles come together how do they organize themselves? And what destroys this organization? Combining experiments and theory, this book describes intriguing quantum phases - metals, superconductors and insulators - and transitions between them. It captures the excitement and the controversies on topics at the forefront of research.
Author: Tian Ma Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461489636 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 575
Book Description
This book is an introduction to a comprehensive and unified dynamic transition theory for dissipative systems and to applications of the theory to a range of problems in the nonlinear sciences. The main objectives of this book are to introduce a general principle of dynamic transitions for dissipative systems, to establish a systematic dynamic transition theory, and to explore the physical implications of applications of the theory to a range of problems in the nonlinear sciences. The basic philosophy of the theory is to search for a complete set of transition states, and the general principle states that dynamic transitions of all dissipative systems can be classified into three categories: continuous, catastrophic and random. The audience for this book includes advanced graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics as well as in other related fields.
Author: Mucio Continentino Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107150256 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 249
Book Description
Focusing on experimental results, this updated edition approaches the problem of quantum phase transitions from a new and unifying perspective.
Author: Brent Fultz Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107067243 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 589
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A clear, concise and rigorous textbook covering phase transitions in the context of advances in electronic structure and statistical mechanics.
Author: Subir Sachdev
Author: Lincoln Carr
Author: Amit Dutta
Author: Sei Suzuki
Author: William Unruh
Author: Kaden Richard Alan Hazzard
Author: Vladimir Dobrosavljevic
Author: Tian Ma
Author: Mucio Continentino
Author: Brent Fultz