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| View Larger Image | Quantum Liquids: Bose Condensation and Cooper Pairing in Condensed-Matter Systems (Oxford Graduate Texts)
by Anthony James Leggett
| | List Price: | $85.00 | | Price: | $68.00 | | You Save: | $17.00 (20%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 727454 | | Studio: | Oxford University Press, USA | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 408 | | Publication Date: | November 23, 2006 | | Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
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Product Description
Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter systems. Eschewing advanced formal methods, the author uses simple concepts and arguments to account for the various qualitatively new phenomena which occur in Bose-condensed and Cooper-paired systems, including but not limited to the spectacular macroscopic phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity; the physical systems discussed include liquid 4-He, the BEC alkali gases, "classical" superconductors, superfluid 3-He, "exotic" superconductors and the recently stabilized Fermi alkali gases.The book should be accessible to beginning graduate students in physics or advanced undergraduates. |
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Very collection of IDEAs. 
It is a truely collection of insightful ideas. What is the BEC in real strognly correlated system? Most of books in this field just tell us the name of "order parameter" and "off-diagonal long-range order" but no further explanation and cites Penrose and Onsager's 1956 paper. That's all. But, here, this book explains THE IDEA what the physicist want. What is BEC, why is it occur, and how can we define it in general system?
As the book's title, Leggett explains about superfluid and superconductor in the integrated point of view. Like the BEC chapter, he doesn't avoid the key ideas even if they are quite complicated in other's book.
One of the advantage of this book is difficulty. Most of readable books in this field are too out-of-date and old. Modern books are usually based on field theoretic formula and has tones of diagrams. But this book balances phenomenological, microscopic explanation, more over, experimental data and published in 2006. (It contains some arguments about supersolid discovered by Kim and Chan in 2004.)
In addition, the author is Nobel prize winner in 2003 about his ground-breaking papers about 3He. Hence this book not just a good book but also authoritive book. Highly recommended.
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