Quantum field theory and its macroscopic manifestations : Boson condensation, ordered patterns, and topological defects / Massimo Blasone & Giuseppe Vitiello, Petr Jizba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blasone, Massimo.

Contributor:

Jizba, Petr.

Vitiello, Giuseppe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum field theory.

Quantum theory.

Crystals.

Ferromagnetism.

Superconductors.

Physical Description:

xviii, 526 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific, [2011]

Summary:

In their study of the spontaneous breakdown of symmetry and collective modes, Blasone, Guiseppte Vitiello (both U. di Salerno), and Petr Jizba (Czech Technical U., Prague) have discovered that quantum field dynamics is not confined to the microscopic world. Crystals, ferro-magnets, superconductors, and some other materials are macroscopic quantum systems, they say, not in the trivial sense that, like everything, they are made of quantum components, but because their macroscopic properties, accounted for by the order parameter field, cannot be explained without recourse to the underlying quantum dynamics. They cover the structure of the space of the physical states, inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations, the spontaneous breakdown of symmetry and the Goldstone theorem, the dynamical rearrangement of symmetry and macroscopic manifestations of quantum field theory, thermal field theory and trajectories in the space of the representations, selected topics in thermal field theory, topological defects as non-homogeneous condensates, and dissipation and quantization. Distributed in the US by World Scientific. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781848162808

1848162804

OCLC:

244765476