内容简介
这是一本凝聚态物理学的研究生教材．书中内容以相当大的篇幅介绍“软”凝聚态物理（液体、液晶等）以及非公度晶体、准晶、非晶态固体、拓扑缺陷、孤子等传统固体物理中很少讨论的课题。在理论上强调了序参量。对称性破缺、广义刚度等概念，并系统介绍了重正化群理论及其在凝聚态物理中的应用。本书每章末附有习题和参考文献。 此书为英文版。
目录
Preface
1 Overview
1.1 Condensed matter physics
1.2 An example-H2o
1.3 Energies and potentials
Bibliorgbhy
References
2 Structure and scattering
2.1 Elementary scattering theory-Braggs law
2.2 Photons neutruons or elctrons
2.3 The density operator and its correlation functions
2.4 Lipuids and gases
2.5 Crystalline Sokids
2.6 Symmerty and crystal structure
2.7 Liquid crystals
2.8 One-and two-dimensional order in three-dimensional materials
2.9 Incommensurate structures
2.10 Quasicrystals
2.11 Magnetic order
2.12 Random isotopic fractls
3 Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
4 Mean-field theory
5 Field theories，critical phenomena and the reormalization group
6 Generalized elasticity
7 Dynamics：correlation and response
8 Hydrodynamics
9 Topological defects
10 Walls kinks and solitons
Bibliograhy
References
Problems
Golssary
Index
