The Multifaceted Skyrmion (2nd Edition): Second Edition - Hardcover

Mannque Rho; Ismail Zahed

 
9789814704403: The Multifaceted Skyrmion (2nd Edition): Second Edition
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9814704407 ISBN 13: 9789814704403
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

This book presents, in the form of reviews by world's leading physicists in wide-ranging fields in theoretical physics, the influence and prescience of Skyrme's daring idea of 1960, originally conceived for nuclear physics, that fermions can arise from bosons via topological solitons, pervasively playing a powerful role in wide-ranging areas of physics, from nuclear/astrophysics, to particle physics, to string theory and to condensed matter physics.

The skyrmion description, both from gauge theory and from gauge/gravity duality, offers solutions to some long-standing and extremely difficult problems at high baryonic density, inaccessible by QCD proper. It also offers explanations and makes startling predictions for fascinating new phenomena in condensed matter systems. In both cases, what is at the core is the topology although the phenomena are drastically different, even involving different spacetime dimensions.

This second edition has been expanded with addition of new reviews and extensively updated to take into account the latest developments in the field.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9814704407
ISBN 13 
9789814704403
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
748