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245 12 $aA mind over matter :$bPhilip Anderson and the physics of the very many /$cAndrew Zangwill.
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520 $aA Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip W. Anderson, a person widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential physicists of the second half of the twentieth century.
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2021).
505 0 $aCover -- A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Son of the Heartland -- The Saturday Hikers -- Formal Education -- The Krebiozen Affair -- Informal Education -- Champaign-Urbana in the 1930s -- A Snapshot -- Chapter 3: Making Waves -- College Accelerated -- Wartime Service -- Chapter 4: First Fruits -- Choosing a Thesis Advisor -- Thesis Problem Posed -- Joyce Gothwaite -- Thesis Problem Solved -- Chapter 5: A Solid Beginning -- Job Hunting -- What Was Bell Labs?
505 8 $aWhat is Solid-State Physics? -- William Shockley -- Chapter 6: Breaking Symmetry -- The Red Scare -- New Mentors -- Ferromagnetism -- Antiferromagnetism -- Symmetry Lost -- Comings and Goings -- A Journey to Japan -- Chapter 7: Disorderly Conduct -- Van Vleck's Legacy -- Localized and Delocalized -- George Feher -- Silicon and Doped Silicon -- An Experimental Puzzle -- Chapter 8: Law in Disorder -- A Theory of Localization -- The Fortunes of Localization -- The Two-Person Career -- The Gang of Four -- Chapter 9: The Love of His Life -- What is Superconductivity? -- Many-electron Physics
505 8 $aThe BCS Model -- Anderson and BCS -- A Visit to Russia -- Taming the Bad Actors -- The Beauty of BCS -- Chapter 10: The Cantabrigian -- First Experiences -- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking -- Josephson Effects -- The Higgs Mechanism -- Physics Physique Fizika -- The Half-Time Professor -- Superfluid Helium -- Port Isaac -- Chapter 11: Hidden Moments -- Magnetic Moments in Metals -- The Anderson Impurity Model -- Matthias' Influence -- Mott's Influence -- Friedel's Influence -- The Local Moment Paper -- The Kondo Effect -- Out of the Wilderness -- The Renormalization Group -- A Nobel Rumor
505 8 $aChapter 12: From Emergence to Complexity -- Prestige Asymmetry -- Are the Big Machines Necessary? -- More is Different -- Emergence -- The Spin Glass -- Pausing for a Breath -- The Santa Fe Institute -- Chapter 13: The Pope of Condensed Matter Physics -- Bell Labs Redux -- Princeton -- On the Road -- Private Communications -- The Nobel Prize -- Political Activism -- The Superconducting Super Collider -- Chapter 14: The Problem of a Lifetime -- High-Temperature Superconductivity -- The Cuprates -- Resonating Valence Bonds -- Bangalore and Beyond -- The Lost Decade -- Discord -- Collapse & Revival
505 8 $aThe Legacy of RVB -- Chapter 15: Four Facts About Science -- Science is not Democratic -- Computers will not Replace Scientists -- Statistical Methods are Misused and Often Misunderstood -- Good Science has Aesthetic Qualities -- Chapter 16: Conclusion -- Who We Know -- A Man in Full -- Appendix: Highlights of the Scientific Career of Philip W. Anderson -- Glossary -- Index
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