Current Trends in Condensed Matter, Particle Physics and Cosmology

Download or read book Current Trends in Condensed Matter, Particle Physics and Cosmology written by J Pati and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1990-09-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the most important lecture notes by experts from condensed matter, particle physics and cosmology and is a MUST for young researchers and graduate students. While covering frontier developments in condensed matter physics, particle physics and cosmology, this school aims to bring out their interdisciplinary nature by emphasizing certain topics such as spontaneous symmetry breaking and renormalization group through a pedagogical set of lectures. In the condensed matter area, the school covered, in the first two weeks, experimental aspects of high temperature superconductivity and its possible applications. Contents:High Temperature Superconductivity; Theory, Experiments and Applications (P W Anderson)Introduction to Critical Phenomena and to the Renormalization Group (E Brezin)Scaling and Structures in the Hard Turbulence Region of Rayleigh Benard Convection (L P Kadanoff)The Particle/Cosmology Interface: Nucleosynthesis, Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation (D N Schramm)Introduction to High-Tc Theory (Yu Lu)Characteristics High-Tc Copper Oxide Superconductors (S Uchida)and other papers Readership: Condensed matter physicists, particle physicists, high energy physicists and cosmologists.