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Principles of condensed matter physics
Paul Chaikin,Tom C. Lubensky +1 more
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In this article, the authors present a generalization of the renormalization group of mean field theories, critical phenomena, and topological defects, including walls, kinks and solitons.Abstract:
Preface 1. Overview 2. Structure and scattering 3. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics 4. Mean-field theory 5. Field theories, critical phenomena, and the renormalization group 6. Generalized elasticity 7. Dynamics: correlation and response 8. Hydrodynamics 9. Topological defects 10. Walls, kinks and solitons Glossary Index.read more
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Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet
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Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point
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Lectures on holographic methods for condensed matter physics
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