Condensed Matter Physics Made Simple: An Essential Guide for Busy People, in Everyday Language (Advanced Physics in Everyday Langauge) - Softcover

Editorial Team, Turing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9199156962 ISBN 13: 9789199156965

Publisher: The Turing App, 2026

Synopsis

Condensed Matter Physics Made Simple is a fun to read plain-English guide. Condensed matter physics is the branch of physics that runs the world. The secrets behind transistors, flash memory, solar power, EV batteries, Hall sensors, fiber optics, and the chips pushing AI forward.

This book follows the field in everyday language, covering everything from crystal structure and electron bands to quantum Hall effects, topological states, magnons, color centers, and memristors. It shows how large groups of atoms produce behavior that no single atom has on its own, and why that fact matters for power, heat, speed, storage, and control. It explains how crystals set the rules for electrons, why band gaps make semiconductors work, how lithium-ion batteries store charge, why magnets keep data in place, and how defects in diamond can become sensors.

If you want the physics under modern technology, start here.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Turing App
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9199156962
• ISBN 13: 9789199156965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82