Chaikin, Paul M.

Principles of condensed matter physics / P.M. Chaikin, T.C. Lubensky. - xx, 699 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.



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.

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Condensed matter

QC173.454 / .C48 1995