Kinks and Domain Walls: An Introduction to Classical and Quantum Solitons - Hardcover

Vachaspati, Tanmay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521836050 ISBN 13: 9780521836050

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 Kinks and Domain Walls includes several state-of-the-art results, some previously unpublished.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.

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About the Author

Tanmay Vachaspati is a professor in the Physics Department at the Case Western Reserve University. He is the Rosenbaum Fellow for the Toplogical Defects Programme at the Isaac Newton Institute, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Professor Vachaspati co-edited The Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Strings with Professors Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521836050
• ISBN 13: 9780521836050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192