Topology in Condensed Matter

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Monastyrsky, Michail Ilych (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, 150
• Subjects: Physics.; Condensed matter.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Nanotechnology.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• Topology in the Electron Theory of Metals
• Topology, Quasiperiodic Functions, and the Transport Phenomena
• The Role of Topology in Growth and Agglomeration
• Topological Defects in Carbon Nanocrystals
• Physics from Topology and Structures
• Phason Dynamics in Aperiodic Crystals
• Hamiltonian Monodromy as Lattice Defect
• Two-Qubit and Three-Qubit Geometry and Hopf Fibrations
• Defects, Surface Anchoring, and Three-Dimensional Director Fields in the Lamellar Structure of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals as Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy.