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Kinks and domain walls : = an introduction to classical and quantum solitons /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Kinks and domain walls :/ Tanmay Vachaspati.
Reminder of title:	an introduction to classical and quantum solitons /
remainder title:	Kinks & Domain Walls
Author:	Vachaspati, T.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 176 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Solitons. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535192
ISBN:	9780511535192 (ebook)

Kinks and domain walls : = an introduction to classical and quantum solitons /
Vachaspati, T.

Kinks and domain walls :an introduction to classical and quantum solitons /Kinks & Domain WallsTanmay Vachaspati. - 1 online resource (xiii, 176 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Classical kinks -- Kinks in more complicated models -- Interactions -- Kinks in quantum field theory -- Condensates and zero modes on kinks -- Formation of kinks -- Dynamics of domain walls -- Gravity and cosmology of domain walls -- Kinks in the laboratory -- Appendix A : Units, numbers, and conventions -- Appendix B : SU(N) generators -- Appendix C : Solution to a common differential equation -- Appendix E : Variation of the determinant -- Appendix F : Summary of cosmological equations.

Kinks and domain walls are the simplest kind of solitons and are invaluable for testing various ideas and for learning about non-perturbative aspects of field theories. They are the subject of research in essentially every branch of physics, ranging from condensed matter to cosmology. This book is an introduction to kinks and domain walls and their principal classical and quantum properties. The book examines classical solitons, building from examples in elementary systems to more complicated settings. The formation of solitons in phase transitions, their dynamics and their cosmological consequences are further discussed. The book closes with an explicit description of a few laboratory systems containing solitons. Kinks and Domain Walls includes several state-of-the-art results, some previously unpublished. Each chapter closes with open questions and research problems and will be of great interest to both graduate students and academic researchers in theoretical physics, particle physics, cosmology and condensed matter physics.

ISBN: 9780511535192 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

527879
Solitons.

LC Class. No.: QC174.26.W28 / V33 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 530.14

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