PHZ3400-09 Further Suggested Reading

The Cenntenial Issue of the Reviews of Modern Physics (Rev. Mod. Phys. vol. 71, (1999)) offers a nice review of the history of Condensed Matter Physics throughout this century. Several articles from this volume can be found on this page. They will help the interested the reader get a better idea on some of the most interesting research topics at this day and age, and indicate several promising directions for the future. While some of these topics are well beyond the scope of this course, reading them is strongly encouraged in order to get the "big picture" of today's Condensed Matter Physics.

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• An essay on the condensed matter physics in the twentieth century (an overview) , by W. Kohn
• In touch with atoms (discovery of scanning tunneling microscopy), by G. Binning and H. Rohrer
• The invention of the transistor, by Riordan, L. Hoddeson, and C. Herring
• Superconductivity, by J. R. Schrieffer and M. Tinkham
• Superfluidity, by A. J. Leggett
• The fractional quantum Hall effect, by H. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, and A. C. Gossard
• Microscopic simulations in physics, by D. M. Ceperlley
• Statistical mechanics: A selective review of two central issues, by J. L. Lebowitz
• Scaling, Universality and renormalization: Three pillars of modern critical phenomena, by H. E. Stanley
• Fluid turbulence, by K. R. Sreenisvasan
• Pattern formation in nonequilibrium physics, by J. P. Gollub and J. S. Langer
• Insights from soft condensed matter, by T. A. Witten
• Biological Physics, by H. Frauenfelder, P. G. Wolynes, and R. H. Austin
• Chemical physics: Molecular clouds, clusters, and corrals, by D. Herschbach
• Brain, neural networks, and computation, by J. J. Hopfield

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All these articles - and many, many more - can be directly downloaded from PROLA (Physical Review On-Line).