Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics, Volume 1
By Jin Guojun

Part IV: Broken Symmetry and Ordered Phases

Chapter List

Chapter 15: Landau Theory of Phase Transitions
Chapter 16: Crystals, Quasicrystals and Liquid Crystals
Chapter 17: Ferromagnets, Antiferromagnets and Ferrimagnets
Chapter 18: Superconductors and Superfluids
Chapter 19: Broken Ergodicity

Order is heav'n's first law

Alexander Pope

Symmetry cannot change continuously: what I have called the first theorem of condensed matter physics.

P. W. Anderson (1981)

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