Simple Views On Condensed Matter.

This volume is a selection of invaluable papers by P-G de Gennes 1991 Nobel Prize winner in Physics which have had a long-lastingimpact on our understanding of condensed matter. Important ideas onpolymers, liquid crystals and interfaces are described.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Singapore : World Scientific, 2003.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789812564849
9812564845
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the first edition; Foreword to the expanded edition; Contents; 1 Sur un exemple de propagation dans un milieu desordonne; 2 Effects of double exchange in magnetic crystals; 3 Nuclear magnetic resonance modes in magnetic material I Theory; 4 Onset of superconductivity in decreasing fields; 5 Boundary effects in superconductors; 6 Soluble model for fibrous structures with steric constraints; 7 Conjectures sur l'etat smectique; 8 Dynamics of fluctuations in nematic liquid crystals; 9 Note on the dynamics of prenematic fluids; 10 An analogy between superconductors and smectics A.