Springer Topology in Condensed Matter: 150 (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, 150)

This book reports new results in condensed matter physics for which topological methods and ideas are important. It considers, on the one hand, recently discovered systems such as carbon nanocrystals and, on the other hand, new topological methods used to describe more traditional systems such as the Fermi surfaces of normal metals, liquid crystals and quasicrystals. The authors of the book are renowned specialists in their fields and present the results of ongoing research, some of it obtained only very recently and not yet published in monograph form. From the Back Cover This book reports new results in condensed matter physics for which topological methods and ideas are important. It considers, on the one hand, recently discovered systems such as carbon nanocrystals and, on the other hand, new topological methods used to describe more traditional systems such as the Fermi surfaces of normal metals, liquid crystals and quasicrystals. The authors of the book are renowned specialists in their fields and present the results of ongoing research, some of it obtained only very recently and not yet published in monograph form. About the Author Michael Monastyrsky, professor of mathematics and theoretical physics at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow/Russia, graduated the mathematical department of Moscow State University(1967). He authored numerous papers in various fields of mathematics and theoretical physics. He presented invited plenary talks on many conferences and was the visiting professor of many universities and institutes including IAS (Princeton), Harvard,Princeton and Yale Universities (USA),Cambridge and Oxford Universities (Great Britain), IHES and Universite de Paris (France).