Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University)

Kinks and Domain Walls

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kinks and domain walls are the simplest kind of solitons and are the subject of research in essentially every branch of physics. This 2006 text introduces kinks and domain walls and their principal classical and quantum properties. This book has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781009290425
• ISBN-10: 1009290428
• Artikelnr.: 66281282

Autorenporträt

Tanmay Vachaspati is Cosmology Director and Professor in the Physics Department at Arizona State University. He was the Rosenbaum Fellow for the Topological Defects Programme at the Isaac Newton Institute, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Professor Vachaspati co-edited The Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Strings with Professors Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Classical kinks
2. Kinks in more complicated models
3. Interactions
4. Kinks in quantum field theory
5. Condensates and zero modes on kinks
6. Formation of kinks
7. Dynamics of domain walls
8. Gravity and cosmology of domain walls
9. Kinks in the lab
Appendix A. Units, numbers and conventions
Appendix B. SU(N) generators
Appendix C. Solution to a common differential equation
Appendix D. Useful operator identities
Appendix E. Variation of the determinant
Appendix F. Summary of cosmological equations
Reference
Index.