PHY765 * Reading List *  

• [Jan. 20] Kosterlitz and Thouless, "Long Range Order and Metastability in two dimensional solids and superfluids", J. Phys. C, Vol. 5, L124 (1972). Kosterlitz and Thouless, "Ordering, metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems", J. Phys. C, Vol. 6, 1181 (1972).
• [Jan. 22] Rudnick, "Critical Surface Density of the Superfluid Component in ⁴He Films", Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 40, 1454 (1978). Edwards, Goodman, and Sokal, "Multi-grid Monte Carlo", Nuc. Phys. B354, 289-327 (1991).
• [Jan. 27] Lubensky, "Soft Condensed Matter Physics", Solid State Comm. (1996).
• [Jan. 29] Continue discussion of Lubensky paper.
• [Feb. 3] Wright and Mermin, "Crystalline liquids: the blue phases", Rev. Mod. Phys., Vol. 61, 385 (1989).
• [Feb. 5] de Gennes, "An Analogy Between Superconductors and Smectics A", Solid State Comm., Vol. 10, 753 (1972).
• [Feb. 10] Continue discussion of de Gennes paper.
• [Feb. 12] Ackerson and Clark, "Shear-Induced Melting", Phys. Rev. Lett. 46, 123 (1981).
• [Feb. 19] Marko and Siggia, "Bending and Twisting Elasticity of DNA", macromolecules 27, 981 (1994).
• [Feb. 21] Continue discussion of Marko and Siggia.
• [Feb. 26] Prange and Girvin, "The Quantum Hall Effect" (1987).
• [Feb. 28] Continue Prange and Girvin.
• [Mar. 3] Imry, Book on Mesoscopics, Ch. 6 ("The Quantum Hall Effect") (1997). Halperin, "Quantized Hall conductance, ...", Phys. Rev. B 25, 2185 (1982).
• [Mar. 5] Stauffer, "Introduction to Percolation Theory", Ch. 1.
• [Mar. 10] Stauffer, "Introduction to Percolation Theory", Ch. 2.
• [Mar. 24] Balents, Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Notes on Glassy Phases and Dynamics of Randomly Pinned Elastic Media (1996).
• [Mar. 26] Balents, Sections 4, 5, and 6 of Notes on Glassy Phases and Dynamics of Randomly Pinned Elastic Media (1996).
• [Mar. 31] Balents, Sections 4 and 5 of Notes on Glassy Phases and Dynamics of Randomly Pinned Elastic Media (1996).
• [Apr. 2] Balents, Section 4 and 5 of Notes on Glassy Phases and Dynamics of Randomly Pinned Elastic Media (1996).
• [Apr. 7] Balents, Section 6 and 7 of Notes on Glassy Phases and Dynamics of Randomly Pinned Elastic Media (1996).
• [Apr. 9] Balents, Section 7 of Notes on Glassy Phases and Dynamics of Randomly Pinned Elastic Media (1996); Kurt Binder and A. Peter Young, Rev. Mod. Phys., Vol. 58, pp. 837-845.
• [Apr. 14] Balents, Section 9 of Notes on Glassy Phases and Dynamics of Randomly Pinned Elastic Media (1996).
• [Apr. 16] Adrian F. G. Wyatt, "Evidence for a Bose-Einstein condensate in liquid ⁴He from quantum evaporation", Nature, Vol. 391, pp. 56-59 (1998); Anderson, Ensher, Matthews, Wieman, Cornell, "Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor", Science, Vol. 269, pp. 198-201 (1998).
• [Apr. 21] Jha report on research - based on Daniel S. Fisher, "Friction and Forced Flow: Collective Transport in Disordered Media", in Nonlinearity in Condensed Matter, ed. A. R. Bishop, et. al. (1987); A. J. Rimberg, T. R. Ho, and John Clarke, "Scaling Behavior in the Current-Voltage Characteristic of One- and Two-Dimensional Arrays of Small Metallic Islands", Phyical Review Letters, Vol. 74, pp. 4714-4717.
• [Apr. 23] Gregory report on research - based on V. A. Kazakov, Course 5 in "Fields, Strings, and Critical Phenomena", Les Houches, Session XLIX, E. Brezin and J. Zinn-Justin, ed., (1988).
• [Apr. 28] McGuire report on research - continued discussion of V. A. Kazakov, Course 5 in "Fields, Strings, and Critical Phenomena", Les Houches, Session XLIX, E. Brezin and J. Zinn-Justin, ed., (1988).
• [Apr. 30] McNamara report on research - based on "Frustrated Systems: Ground State Properties via Combinatorial Optimization," Heiko Rieger, to appear in Lecture Notes in Physics (Springer-Verlag, 1997) (cond-mat/9705010).