Topology in Condensed Matter

✍ Scribed by M. Monastyrsky (auth.), Professor Dr. Michail Ilych Monastyrsky (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 150
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reports new results in condensed matter physics for which topological methods and ideas are important. It considers, on the one hand, recently discovered systems such as carbon nanocrystals and, on the other hand, new topological methods used to describe more traditional systems such as the Fermi surfaces of normal metals, liquid crystals and quasicrystals. The authors of the book are renowned specialists in their fields and present the results of ongoing research, some of it obtained only very recently and not yet published in monograph form.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-2
Topology in the Electron Theory of Metals....Pages 3-29
Topology, Quasiperiodic Functions, and the Transport Phenomena....Pages 31-59
The Role of Topology in Growth and Agglomeration....Pages 61-91
Topological Defects in Carbon Nanocrystals....Pages 93-116
Physics from Topology and Structures....Pages 117-137
Phason Dynamics in Aperiodic Crystals....Pages 139-163
Hamiltonian Monodromy as Lattice Defect....Pages 165-186
Two-Qubit and Three-Qubit Geometry and Hopf Fibrations....Pages 187-203
Defects, Surface Anchoring, and Three-Dimensional Director Fields in the Lamellar Structure of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals as Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy....Pages 205-250

✦ Subjects

Condensed Matter;Nanotechnology;Partially Ordered Systems, Glasses, Quasicrystals