More is different

This book presents articles written by leading experts surveying several major subfields in Condensed Matter Physics and related sciences. The articles are based on invited talks presented at a recent conference honoring Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson of Princeton University, who coined the phrase "More is different" while formulating his contention that all fields of physics, indeed all of science, involve equally fundamental insights. The articles introduce and survey current research in areas that have been close to Anderson's interests. Together, they illustrate both the deep impact that Anderson has had in this multifaceted field during the past half century and the progress spawned by his insights. The contributors cover numerous topics under the umbrellas of superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetism, electron localization, strongly interacting electronic systems, heavy fermions, and disorder and frustration in glass and spin-glass systems. They also describe interdisciplinary areas such as the science of olfaction and color vision, the screening of macroions in electrolytes, scaling and renormalization in cosmology, forest fires and the spread of measles, and the investigation of "NP-complete" problems in computer science.

The articles are authored by Philip W. Anderson, Per Bak and Kan Chen, G. Baskaran, Juan Carlos Campuzano, Paul Chaikin, John Hopfield, Bernhard Keimer, Scott Kirkpatrick and Bart Selman, Gabriel Kotliar, Patrick Lee, Yoshiteru Maeno, Marc Mezard, Douglas Osheroff et al., H. R. Ott, L. Pietronero et al., T. V. Ramakrishnan, A. Ramirez, Myriam Sarachik, T. Senthil and Matthew P. A. Fisher, B. I. Shklovskii et al., and F. Steglich et al.

Contents

• More is different-one more Time
• Localization Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
• Metal-Insulator Transitions in disordered Systems
• The Nature of Superfluid He in Silica Aerogel
• RVB Description Of High-T Superconductors
• Angle -Resolved Photoemission Results in Cuprates
• SpinExcitations in Copper Oxide Superconductors
• Anderson's theory of High-T Superconductivity
• Quantum Confinement and Cuprate Criticality
• Spin-Triplet Superconductivity of SR2RUO4
• Triplet Quasi-One-Dimensional Superconductors
• Magnetic Moments in Metals
• Superconductivity and Magnetism in Heavy-Fermions
• The Mott Transition
• First Steps in Glass Theory
• Geometrical Frustration and Marginal Constraint
• Olfaction and Color Vision : More in Simpler
• Screening and Giant Charge inversion in electrolytes
• Forest Fires and Luminous Matter in the Universe
• Complexity In Cosmology
• Statistical Physics and Computational Complexity