这是第一本系统介绍量子相变理论的专著,其中部分内容也可作研究生教材。本书内容新颖,涉及凝聚态物理学中广泛关注的许多重要问题。本书叙述简明，将理论模型的阐述与最新实验结果的介绍密切结合。书中着重描写和阐述存在量子相变的一些最简单的相互作用系统的物理性质。全书大部分均忽略了无序效应，而把注意力集中在这样一些系统在非零温度下的动力学性质，深入讨论了以非弹性碰撞为主的量子动力学及输运过程。
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Modern experimental developments in condensed matter and ultracold atom physics present formidable challenges to theorists. This book provides a pedagogical introduction to quantum field theory in many-particle physics, emphasizing the applicability of the formalism to concrete problems. This second edition contains two new chapters developing path integral approaches to classical and quantum nonequilibrium phenomena. Other chapters cover a range of topics, from the introduction of many-body techniques and functional integration, to renormalization group methods, the theory of response functions, and topology. Conceptual aspects and formal methodology are emphasized, but the discussion focuses on practical experimental applications drawn largely from condensed matter physics and neighboring fields. Extended and challenging problems with fully worked solutions provide a bridge between formal manipulations and research-oriented thinking. Aimed at elevating graduate students to a level where they can engage in independent research, this book complements graduate level courses on many-particle theory.

John Bardeen was an unassuming man, a humble, soft-spoken Midwesterner whose life was filled with simple pastimes like a Sunday picnic with the family or a good game of golf. He was also a giant of modern physics, an extraordinary hero of twentieth century science. His seminal work earned him the distinction of being the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in physics -- both awarded for discoveries that were breathtaking in scope and responsible for advancing the course of human history.
Bardeen ranks among the most imaginative and inspired scientists of our time. But his genius was quiet and unobtrusive, hidden behind the façade of an average man, which perhaps why we know so little about him. As exuberantly talented as Albert Einstein, Bardeen had no desire to mug for the cameras or prove himself eccentric. Easily equal to the intellect of Richard Feynman, Bardeen was simply not irreverent and offbeat. As eccentricity and outsize personalities have come to symbolize the true nature of genius and creativity, Bardeen remains cloaked in obscurity.
Without Bardeen's first Nobel Prize-winning discovery -- the transistor -- the electronics revolution, which brought us desktop computers, supercomputers, and microelectronics, would still be the stuff of science fiction. His second great breakthrough -- the prevailing theory of electrical superconductivity which for years had stumped Einstein, Feynman, and many others -- promises to revolutionize twenty-first century technology with super-fast "mag-lev trains," supercolliding atom smashers, and other fantastic technological wonders.
Yet despite these achievements, this astonishing, though decidedly modest, Midwesterner was often overlooked by both the media as well as the public, simply because he differed radically from the popular stereotype of genius. Through an exploration of his science as well as his life, a fresh and thoroughly engaging portrait of genius and the nature of creativity emerges. This fascinating biography provides a whole new perspective on what it truly means to be a genius.

本书是一部关于稀化气体中玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的专著。早在1925年爱因斯坦便预言，气态粒子在低温下会在各方面处于同样的量子状态。1995年首次利用强激光方法在实验室中产生一种特殊的气态，称为玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚。这一凝聚在大尺度存在量子现象，并成为当代物理学中的一个最活跃的研究领域，涉及原子物理、凝聚物质物理和核物理。本书重点论述其基础物理原理。全书共14章，每章末附有问题和参考文献，书末附有基本常数和转换因数的附录。本书适用于高校物理系及相关专业的教师、研究生和从事新物态及相关研究的科研工作者。

An introduction to some of the most significant concepts in the physics of condensed matter. Emphasizes the general principles of many-body physics and perturbation theory, providing supporting mathematical structure. Paper.

The quantum Hall effects remains one of the most important subjects to have emerged in condensed matter physics over the past 20 years. The fractional quantum Hall effect, in particular, has opened up a new paradigm in the study of strongly correlated electrons, and it has been shown that new concepts, such as fractional statistics, anyon, chiral Luttinger liquid and composite particles, are realized in two-dimensional electron systems. This book explains the quantum Hall effects together with these new concepts starting from elementary quantum mechanics. Thus, graduate students can use this book to gain an overall understanding of these phenomena.

《超导、超流和凝聚体》包含三条主线：Bose-Einstein凝聚体（BEC），超流体和超导电性。书中首先建立专题的重要概念，然后介绍必要的数学方法。《超导、超流和凝聚体》从三个主题中最简单的BEC开始，首先全面回顾了Bose-Einstein理想气体的基础，然后详述了磁捕陷与原子冷却技术和稀化原子气体中的BEC。4He中的超流性较难理解，因为它是强相互作用量子流体。《超导、超流和凝聚体》介绍了超流性的主要物理现象，以及如何从宏观量子相干性与非对角长程序的主要概念得出超流现象。超导电性的理论分步加以阐述：先讨论较简单的London和GinzbergLandau理论及其主要应用，然后推导量子相干态的数学概念和Bardeen-Cooper-Shrieffer（BCS）理论。最后一章涉及较高深的话题，包括3He超流和特异超导体中的非常规Cooper对的证据。《超导、超流和凝聚体》不需要读者具备量子多体理论的知识，必要的数学概念会在需要处予以介绍。