PWA90 A Lifetime of Emergence Marking the scientific accomplishments of P. W. Anderson edited by Premi Chandra, Piers Coleman, Gabi Kotliar (Rutgers), Phuan Ong (Princeton), Daniel L Stein (Courant Institute) & Clare Yu (UC, Irvine) In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase “More is Different”, Anderson has been the most forceful and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, viewpoint of emergent phenomena: truly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale. Anderson’s ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of physics, including the Anderson– Higgs mechanism and the dynamics of pulsars. PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence is a volume of original scientific essays and personal reminiscences of Philip W Anderson by experts in the field, that were presented as part of “PWA90: Emergent Frontiers of Condensed Matter” meeting held at Princeton in December 2013 to highlight Anderson’s contributions to physics. Books by Nobel Laureates in Condensed Matter Physics & Statistical Physics November 2015 Khandkar A. Muttalib (Florida) Recollections of a Graduate Student Clare C. Yu (UC, Irvine) P W Anderson Seen Through the Eyes of a Student Ganputhy Baskaran (IMS, Chennai and Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.) Random Walks in Anderson’s Garden: A Journey from Cuprates to Cooper Pair Insulators and Beyond Elihu Abrahams (UCLA) Some Reminiscences on Anderson Localization T. V. Ramakrishnan (IIS, Bangalore and Banaras Hindu University) Anderson and Condensed Matter Physics Frank Wilczek (MIT) Superfluidity and Symmetry Breaking — An Anderson Living Legacy Edward Witten (IAS, Princeton) Phil Anderson and Gauge Symmetry Breaking William F. Brinkman (Princeton) A Short History of the Theory and Experimental Discovery of Superfluidity in 3He Anthony Leggett (UIUC) Superconductivity in a Terrestrial Liquid: What Would It Be Like? 300pp Nov 2015 978-981-4733-61-8 US$78 £51 978-981-4733-62-5(pbk) US$38 £25 Patrick Lee (MIT) 40 Years of Quantum Spin Liquid: A Tale of Emergence from Frustration Mohit Randeria (Ohio State Univ.) High Tc Superconductivity and RVB Ted Geballe and Steven Kivelson (Stanford) Paired Insulators and High Temperature Superconductors T. Maurice Rice (ETH, Zurich) The Special Properties of High Tc Cuprates, Radically Different from Other Transition Metal Oxides Albert Libchaber (Rockefeller) From Bacteria to Artificial Cells, the Problem of Self- Reproduction Ted Kirkpatrick (Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem) Spin Glasses and Frustration Daniel L. Stein (Courant Institute) Frustration and Fluctuations in Systems with Quenched Disorder Piers Coleman (Rutgers) Phil Anderson’s Magnetic Life Contents
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PWA90A Lifetime of Emergence Marking the scientific accomplishments of P. W. Anderson
edited by Premi Chandra, Piers Coleman, Gabi Kotliar (Rutgers), Phuan Ong (Princeton), Daniel L Stein (Courant Institute) & Clare Yu (UC, Irvine)
In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W Anderson
has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his
oft-quoted phrase “More is Different”, Anderson has been the most forceful
and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, viewpoint of
emergent phenomena: truly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from
studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale. Anderson’s ideas have
also extended deeply into other areas of physics, including the Anderson–
Higgs mechanism and the dynamics of pulsars.
PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence is a volume of original scientific essays
and personal reminiscences of Philip W Anderson by experts in the field,
that were presented as part of “PWA90: Emergent Frontiers of Condensed
Matter” meeting held at Princeton in December 2013 to highlight Anderson’s
contributions to physics.
Books by Nobel Laureatesin Condensed Matter Physics & Statistical Physics
November 2015
Khandkar A. Muttalib (Florida)Recollections of a Graduate Student
Clare C. Yu (UC, Irvine)P W Anderson Seen Through the Eyes of a Student
Ganputhy Baskaran (IMS, Chennai and Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.)Random Walks in Anderson’s Garden: A Journey from Cuprates to Cooper Pair Insulators and Beyond
Elihu Abrahams (UCLA)Some Reminiscences on Anderson Localization
T. V. Ramakrishnan (IIS, Bangalore and Banaras Hindu University)Anderson and Condensed Matter Physics
Frank Wilczek (MIT)Superfluidity and Symmetry Breaking — An Anderson Living Legacy
Edward Witten (IAS, Princeton)Phil Anderson and Gauge Symmetry Breaking
William F. Brinkman (Princeton)A Short History of the Theory and Experimental Discovery of Superfluidity in 3He
Anthony Leggett (UIUC)Superconductivity in a Terrestrial Liquid: What Would It Be Like?
300pp Nov 2015978-981-4733-61-8 US$78 £51978-981-4733-62-5(pbk) US$38 £25
Patrick Lee (MIT)40 Years of Quantum Spin Liquid: A Tale of Emergence from Frustration
Mohit Randeria (Ohio State Univ.)High Tc Superconductivity and RVB
Ted Geballe and Steven Kivelson (Stanford)Paired Insulators and High Temperature Superconductors
T. Maurice Rice (ETH, Zurich)The Special Properties of High Tc Cuprates, Radically Different from Other Transition Metal Oxides
Albert Libchaber (Rockefeller)From Bacteria to Artificial Cells, the Problem of Self-Reproduction
Ted Kirkpatrick (Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem)Spin Glasses and Frustration
Daniel L. Stein (Courant Institute)Frustration and Fluctuations in Systems with Quenched Disorder
Piers Coleman (Rutgers)Phil Anderson’s Magnetic Life
Contents
Books by Nobel Laureates in Condensed Matter Physics & Statistical Physics
More and DifferentNotes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeonby Philip W Anderson (Princeton)
“Anderson has put together an entertaining and instructive collection of highly readable reviews, columns, talks, and unpublished essays on science and the scientists he has known. He is rarely inappropriately provocative, and he is a pleasure to read.”
Physics Today
“Philip W Anderson is the doyen of present-day condensed matter physics, and has written widely and provocatively on many subjects both within and without the discipline. This collection of his essays is guaranteed to instruct, amuse and in some cases annoy readers irrespective of their specialist backgrounds.”
Anthony LeggettNobel Laureate
“This is that rare book which may stimulate the reader into seeing the future, present and past of science in a new light. Philip Anderson is not only the most influential and original scientist in the second half of the 20th century in condensed matter physics, but also happens to be one who thinks deeply and broadly, and writes beautifully and vividly. It is of inestimable value especially to those curious about the scientific enterprise and possibly interested in contributing to it. The book title is a twist on an Andersonian phrase which has become a modern mantra.”
T V RamakrishnanBanaras Hindu University
“Phil Anderson has made many wonderful contributions to physics, often illustrating his favorite theme of how more is different. I am sure readers of diverse interests will enjoy this book and learn much from it.”
Edward WittenInstitute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Concepts in SolidsLectures on the Theory of Solids by Philip W Anderson (Princeton)
These lecture notes constitute a course on a number of central concepts of solid state physics — classification of solids, band theory, the developments in one-electron band theory in the presence of perturbation, effective Hamiltonian theory, elementary excitations and the various types of collective elementary excitation (excitons, spin waves and phonons), the Fermi liquid, ferromagnetic spin waves, antiferromagnetic spin waves and the theory of broken symmetry.
The book can be used in conjunction with a survey course in solid state physics, or as the basis of a first graduate-level course. It can be read by anyone who has had basic grounding in quantum mechanics.
204pp Nov 1997978-981-02-3195-8 US$43 £29978-981-02-3231-3(pbk) US$21 £14
World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics – Volume 35
A Career in Theoretical Physics2nd Editionby Philip W Anderson (Princeton)
This unique volume presents the scientific achievements of Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, spanning the many years of his career. In this new edition, the author has omitted some review papers as well as added over 15 of his research papers. As in the first edition, he provides an introduction to each paper by explaining the genesis of the papers or adding some personal history.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the author’s work which include significant discoveries and pioneering contributions, such as his work on the Anderson model of magnetic impurities and the concept of localization; the study of spin glasses, the fluctuating valence problem and superexchange; his prediction of the existence of superfluidity in 3He; his involvement in the discovery of the Josephson effect; his discovery of the “Higgs” mechanism in elementary particle physics; and so on.
884pp Jan 2005978-981-238-865-0 US$133 £88978-981-238-866-7(pbk) US$58 £38
Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today
Books by Nobel Laureates in Condensed Matter Physics & Statistical Physics
edited by Belal E Baaquie (NUS, Singapore), Kerson Huang (MIT), Michael E Peskin (Stanford) & K K Phua (NTU, Singapore)
“Kenneth Wilson was a brilliant and creative contributor to the work on renormalization groups and phase transitions. He applied his multifaceted genius to condensed matter physics as well as nuclear and elementary particle physics.”
Murray Gell-Mann
To commemorate the memory of Ken Wilson, many leading and illustrious physicists have contributed to this volume — Ian Affleck, Belal E Baaquie, Ken Bowler, Édouard Brézin, Tohru Eguchi, Michael E Fisher, Paul Ginsparg, Domenico Giuliano, Stanislaw Glazek, Bailin Hao, Kerson Huang, Roman Jackiw, Richard Kenway, H R Krishnamurthy, N D Mermin, Stuart Pawley, Michael Peskin, Alexander Polyakov, John Schwarz, R Shankar, Akira Ukawa, David Wallace, Franz Wegner, Steven Weinberg, and Anthony Zee.
396pp Mar 2015978-981-4619-21-9 US$86 £57978-981-4619-22-6(pbk) US$44 £29
Ken Wilson Memorial VolumeRenormalization, Lattice Gauge Theory, the Operator Product Expansion and Quantum Fields
4D Visualization of MatterRecent Collected Works of Ahmed H Zewail, Nobel Laureate
by Ahmed H Zewail (Caltech)
“4D Visualization of Matter chronicles an extraordinary journey of invention and discovery by one of the world’s greatest living scientists. It reveals the structure of matter in all realms at unprecedented resolution in both space and time. Above all, it opens the way to even greater insights and information in the years to come.”
Roger KornbergNobel Laureate in Chemistry, Winzer Professor in Medicine, Stanford University Medical School
“This monograph constitutes a uniquely powerful approach to the revelation of the cornucopia of hidden secrets of the natural world.”
Sir John Meurig ThomasProfessor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (1936–2013) was a theoretical physicist and a pioneer in leveraging computers for studying particle physics. He was
awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions”. It was embodied in his
fundamental work on the renormalization group.
Ahmed Zewail is the Linus Pauling Chair professor of chemistry and physics, and director of the Center for Physical Biology
at Caltech. He is the sole recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize for the development of the field of Femtochemistry.
He has published some 600 articles and 14 books and is known for his effective public lectures and writings, not only on
science but also in global affairs. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed him to the Council of Advisors on Science
and Technology, and in the same year he was named the first U.S. Science Envoy to the Middle East.
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Selected Papers (1945–1980) of Chen Ning Yang With Commentary by Chen Ning Yang (SUNY, Stony Brook & Tsinghua University)
“One of my favorite books is Frank’s ‘Selected Papers (1945-1980) with Commentary’, published in 1983 to celebrate his 60th birthday. The commentaries give us the story of Frank’s life in the form of an intellectual autobiography.”
Freeman Dysonfrom speech at C.N. Yang retirement symposium banquet
“It contains seminal contributions to a remarkable range of topics -- elementary particle symmetries, statistical mechanics, the geometry of gauge theories and much besides. All in all, a masterly work of scholarship, and a book every physicist will find rewarding.”
Tom KibbleContemporary Physics
624pp Aug 2005978-981-256-367-5 US$58 £38
50 YEARS OF ANDERSON LOCALIZATIONedited by Elihu Abrahams (UCLA)
“… non-specialists are accompanied step by step in the disclosure of the major achievements (both theoretical and experimental) of such a field since Anderson’s discovery more than fifty years ago. Specialists as well will greatly benefit from the matter presented in this book, both for the collection of most recent results and for the inspiring reviews of a multiform phenomenon.”
Contemporary Physics
This unique and invaluable volume celebrates the five decades of the impact of Anderson localization on modern physics. In addition to the historical perspective on its origin, the volume provides a comprehensive description of the experimental and theoretical aspects of Anderson localization, together with its application in various areas, which include disordered metals and the metal–insulator transition, mesoscopic physics, classical systems and light, strongly-correlated systems, and mathematical models.
612pp Jun 2010978-981-4299-06-0 US$78 £51978-981-4299-07-7(pbk) US$38 £25
BCS: 50 Yearsedited by Leon N Cooper & Dmitri Feldman (Brown Univ.)
Named a Top Five Book of 2011 by Physics Today
“This exceptionally well written and edited book celebrates and reviews the state of BCS theory and experiment. The many chapters on the history and early experiments are all very clear and readily accessible to a high-energy physicist, despite containing a wealth of detail. The content continues well beyond the usual applications of BCS theory and there are extensive discussions of extensions of BCS, especially in the light of attempts to understand the new high Tc superconductors ... All 23 chapters are by outstanding physicists (including many Nobel prize-winners) and all are fascinating to read. I would highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone as a wonderful review of a powerful unifying concept that covers an enormous range of phenomena.”
CERN Courier
588pp Nov 2010978-981-4304-64-1 US$135 £89978-981-4304-65-8(pbk) US$48 £32
Selected Papers of Chen Ning Yang II With Commentaries by Chen Ning Yang (Tsinghua University & Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“Prof. Yang’s achievements certainly has a great deal to reflect upon and propound, such as attested to by his many speeches on different occasions and contributions to various publications, which make up slightly more than one-third of the book. Among the 47 articles included, close to a quarter are original research papers.”
