Anderson P.W. A Career in Theoretical Physics

2nd ed. — World Scientific, 2004. — 862 p.This unique volume presents the scientific achievements of Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson, spanning the many years of his career. In this new edition, the author has omitted some review papers as well as added over 15 of his research papers. As in the first edition, he provides an introduction to each paper by explaining the genesis of the papers or adding some personal history.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the author's works which include significant discoveries and pioneering contributions, such as his work on the Anderson model of magnetic impurities and the concept of localization; the study of spin glasses, the fluctuating valence problem and superexchange; his prediction of the existence of superfluidity in He³; his involvement in the discovery of the losephson effect; his discovery of the "Higgs" mechanism in elementary particle physics; and so on.
The new papers added to this edition include "Pressure Broadening in the Microwave and Infrared Regions" — a condensation of most of the author's thesis; "Ordering and Antiferromagnetism in Ferrites" — the best-known of the papers written by the author involving what are known as "frustrated" lattices; and "Localized Magnetic States in Metals" — a paper mentioned in his Nobel Prize citation along with localization and superexchange; to name a few.
A Career in Theoretical Physics is an essential source of reference for physicists, chemists, materials scientists and historians of science. It is also suitable reading for graduate students.Preface to the Second Edition.
Introductory Essay to the First Edition.
More Is Different // Science 111, 393-396 (1972).
Pressure Broadening in the Microwave and Infrared Regions // Phys. Rev. 76, 647-661 (1949).
Theory of Ferroelectric Behavior of Barium Titanate // Ceramic Age 57, 29-34 (1951).
Use of Stochastic Methods in Line-Broadening Problems // Kyoto Lectures, March 1954.
An Approximate Quantum Theory of the Antiferromagnetic Ground State // Phys. Rev. 86, 694-701 (1952).
Qualitative Considerations on the Statistics of the Phase Transition in BaTiO₃-type Ferroelectrics // Conference Proceedings, Lebedev Physics Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Nov. 1958, Fizika Dielektrikov (Moscow), 1960, pp. 290-297.
Ordering and Antiferromagnetism in Ferrites // Phys. Rev. 102, 1008-1013 (1956).
Absence of Diffusion in Certain Random Lattices // Phys. Rev. 109, 1492-1505 (1958).
New Method in the Theory of Superconductivity // Phys. Rev. 110, 985-986 (1958).
New Approach to the Theory of Superexchange Interactions // Phys.Rev. 115, 2-13 (1959).
Theory of Dirty Superconductors // J. Phys. Chem. Solids 11, 26-30 (1959).
Calculation of the Superconducting State Parameters with Retarded Electron-Phonon Interaction (with P. Morel) // Phys. Rev. 125, 1263-1271 (1962).
Generalized Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer States and the Proposed Low-Temperature Phase of Liquid He³ (with P. Morel) // Phys. Rev. 123, 1911-1934 (1961).
Localized Magnetic States in Metals // Phys. Rev. 124, 41-53 (1961).
Plasmons, Gauge Invariance, and Mass // Phys. Rev. 130, 439-442 (1963).
Hard Superconductivity: Theory of the Motion of Abrikosov Flux Lines (with Y.B. Kim) // Rev. Mod. Phys. 36, 39-43 (1964).
Probable Observation of the Josephson Superconducting Tunneling Effect (with J. M. Rowell) // Phys. Rev. Lett. 10, 230-232 (1963).
Image of the Phonon Spectrum in the Tunneling Characteristic between Superconductors (with J. M. Rowell and D.E. Thomas) // Phys. Rev. Lett. 10, 334-336 (1963).
Exchange in Magnetic Insulators // Transition Metal Compounds, ed. E.R. Schatz, Bull. Int. Conference on Materials, Pittsburgh (Gordon and Breach, New York), 1964, pp. 17-28.
Superconductivity (Two Opinions) (with B.T. Matthias) // Science, 144, 373-381 (1964).
Coherent Matter Field Phenomena in Superfluids // Some Recent Definitions in the Basic Sciences, Vol. 2, (Belfer Graduate School of Sciences, Yeshiva University, New York, 1969), ed. A. Gelbart, pp. 21-40.
Considerations on the Flow of Superfluid Helium // Rev. Mod. Phys. 38, 298-310 (1966).
Multiple-Scattering Theory and Resonances in Transition Metals (with W.L. McMillan) // Proc. of the Int. School of Physics 'Enrico Fermi' XXXVII (Academic Press, New York), 1967, pp. 50-86.
Infrared Catastrophe in Fermi Gases with Local Scattering Potentials // Phys. Rev. Lett. 18, 1049-1051 (1967).
The Kondo Effect I // Comments on Solid State Physics 1, no. 2, 31-36 (1968-69).
The Kondo Effect II // Comments on Solid State Physics 1, no. 6, 190-197 (1968-69).
Kondo Effect III: The Wilderness — Mainly Theoretical // Comments on Solid State Physics 3, no. 6, 153-158 (1971).
Kondo Effect IV: Out of the Wilderness // Comments on Solid State Physics 5, no. 3, 73-79 (1973).
Superconductivity in the Past and the Future // Superconductivity, Vol. 2, ed. R. Parks (Marcel Dekker, New York), 1968, pp. 1343-1358.
Macroscopic Coherence and Superfluidity // Contemporary Physics, Vol. 1 (IAEA, Vienna), 1969, pp. 47-54.
The Fermi Glass: Theory and Experiment // Comments on Solid State Physics 2, 193-198 (1970).
Space-Time and Scaling Techniques in the Kondo Problem // in Proc. of 12th Int. Conf. on Low Temperature Physics, ed. E. Kanda (Academic Press, 1971), pp. 657-660.
Anomalous Low-temperature Thermal Properties of Glasses and Spin Glasses (with B.I. Halperin and CM. Varma) // Philos. Mag. 25, 1-9 (1972).
Comments on the Maximum Superconducting Transition Temperature (with M.L. Cohen) // AIP Conf. Proc, 1971, pp. 17-27.
Comment on "Model for an Exciton Mechanism of Superconductivity" (with J.C. Inkson) // Phys. Rev. B. 8, 4429-4432 (1973).
Resonating Valence Bonds: A New Kind of Insulator? // Materials Research Bulletin 8, 153-160 (1973).
Anisotropic Superfluidity in ³He: A Possible Interpretation of Its Stability as a Spin-Fluctuation Effect (with W.F. Brinkman) // Phys. Rev. Lett. 30, 1108-1111 (1973).
Conference Summary // Collective Properties of Physical Systems, eds. B. Lundqvist and S. Lundqvist, Proc. of Nobel Symposium, Goteborg, Sweden, 13 June 1973 (Academic Press, 1974), pp. 266-271.
Asymptotically Exact Methods in the Kondo Problem (with G. Yuval) // Magnetism, vol. V, ed. H. Suhl (Academic Press, 1973), pp. 217-236.
Many-Body Effects at Surfaces // Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules and Atoms (Plenum, 1974), pp. 1-29.
Conductivity from Charge or Spin Density Waves (with P.A. Lee and T.M. Rice) // Solid State Communications 14, 703-709 (1974).
Uses of Solid State Analogies in Elementary Particle Theory // Proc. of Conf. on Gauge Theories and Modern Field Theory, eds. R. Arnowitt and P. Nath (MIT Press, 1976), pp. 311-335.
Possible Consequences of Negative U Centers in Amorphous Materials // J. de Physique Colloque, No. 4, 339-342 (1976).
Theory of Spin Glasses (with S.F. Edwards) // J. Phys. F. 5, 965-974 (1975).
Solution of "Solvable Model of a Spin Glass" (with D.J. Thouless and R.G. Palmer) // Philos. Mag. 35, 593-601 (1977).
Phase Slippage without Vortex Cores: Vortex Textures in Superfluid ³He (with G. Toulouse) // Phys. Rev. Lett. 18, 508-511 (1977).
Scaling Theory of Localization: Absence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions (with E. Abrahams, D.C. Licciardello and T.V. Ramakrishnan) // Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 673-676 (1979).
Some General Thoughts about Broken Symmetry // Symmetries and Broken Symmetries in Condensed Matter Physics, ed. N. Boccara (IDSET, Paris, 1981), pp. 11-20.
The Rheology of Neutron Stars: Vortex Line Pinning in the Crust Superfluid (with M.A. Alpar, D. Pines and J. Shaham) // Philos. Mag. A45, 227-238 (1982).
Localization Redux // Physica 117B & 118B, 30-35 (1983).
New Method for Scaling Theory of Localization. II: Multi-Channel Theory of a "Wire" and Possible Extension to Higher Dimensionality // Phys. Rev. B. 23, 4828-4836 (1981).
Definition and Measurement of the Electrical and Thermal Resistances (with H.-L. Engquist) // Phys. Rev. B. 24, 1151-1154 (1981).
Suggested Model for Prebiotic Evolution: The Use of Chaos // Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 80, 3386-3390 (1983).
Chemical Pseudopotentials // Phys. Reports 110, Nos. 5&6, 311-319 (1984).
Spin Glass Hamiltonians: A Bridge between Biology, Statistical
Mechanics and Computer Science // Emerging Syntheses in Science, ed. D. Pines (Addison-Wesley, 1987), pp. 17-20.
Measurement in Quantum Theory and the Problem of Complex Systems // The Lessons of Quantum Theory, ed. J. de Boer, E. Dal and O. Ulfbeck, talk given at the Niels Bohr Centenary Symposium, Copenhagen, October 1985 (Elsevier Science, 1986), pp. 23-34.
It's Not Over Till the Fat Lady Sings // Talk given at History of Superconductivity, APS Meeting, March 1987.
Spin Glass I: A Scaling Law Rescued // Physics Today 41#1, 9 (1988).
Spin Glass II: Is There a Phase Transition? // Physics Today 41#3, 9 (1988).
Spin Glass III: Theory Raises Its Head // Physics Today 41#6, 9 (1988).
Spin Glass IV: Glimmerings of Trouble // Physics Today 41#9, 9 (1988).
Spin Glass V: Real Power Brought to Bear // Physics Today 42#7, 9 (1989).
Spin Glass VI: Spin Glass as Cornucopia // Physics Today 42#9, 9 (1989).
Spin Glass VII: Spin Glass as Paradigm // Physics Today 43#3, 9 (1990).
Epilogue // Valence Instabilities and Related Narrow-band Phenomena, ed. R.D. Parks (Plenum, 1977), pp. 389-396.
Present Status of Theory: 1/N Approach // Proc. of 1983 NATO/CAP Inst. "Moment Formation in Solids", ed. W.J.L. Buyers (Plenum), pp. 313-326.
The Problem of Fluctuating Valence in f-Electron Metals // Windsurfing in the Fermi Sea, Vol. 1, eds. T.T.S. Kuo and J. Speth (Elsevier Science, 1987), pp. 61-67.
Gutzwiller-Hubbard Lattice-Gas Model with Variable Density: Application to Normal Liquid ³He (with D. Vollhardt and P. Woffle) // Phys. Rev. B. 35, 6703-6715 (1987).
Some Ideas on the Aesthetics of Science // Lecture given at the 50th Anniversary Seminar of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan, May 1989.
Theoretical Paradigms for the Sciences of Complexity // Nishima Memorial Lecture, Department of Physics, Keio University, Japan, May 1989.
50 Years of the Mott Phenomenon: Insulators, Magnets, Solids, and Superconductors as Aspects of Strong-Repulsion Theory // Frontiers and Borderlines in Many-Particle Physics, Proceedings of the Enrico International School of Physics, Varenna, July 1987 (North-Holland, 1987), pp. 1-40.
Theories of Fullerene T_c's Which Will Not Work.
The Reverend Thomas Bayes, Needles in Haystacks, and the Fifth Force // Physics Today 45#1, 9 (1992).
The Eightfold Way to the Theory of Complexity: A Prologue // Complexity, eds. G. Cowan, D. Pines and D. Meltzer (Addison-Wesley, 1994), pp. 7-16.
Magnetic Field Induced Confinement in Strongly Correlated Anisotropic Materials (with S.P. Strong and D.G. Clarke) // Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1007-1010 (1994).
Physics: The Opening to Complexity // Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 92, 6653-6654 (1995).
Beyond Chaos: Singular Distributions and Power Laws.
Essay Review — Science: A 'Dappled World' or a 'Seamless Web'? // Stud. Hist. Phil. Mod. Phys. 32, 487-494 (2001).
RVB Redux: A Synergistic Theory of High T_c Cuprates // The Universality of Physics, A Festschrift in Honor of Deng Feng Wang, ed. Khuri et al. (Kluwer/Plenum, 2001), pp. 3-8.
Physics of the Pseudogap Phase of High T_c Cuprates, or, RVB meets Umklapp // J. Phys. Chem. Solids 63, 2145-2148 (2002).
In Praise of Unstable Fixed Points: The Way Things Actually Work // Physica 5 318, 28-32 (2002).
Rise of Complexity, 1953-2002 // Ann. Henri Poincare 4, S1-S6 (2003).
The Physics behind High-temperature Superconducting Cuprates: The 'Plain Vanilla' Version of RVB (with P.A. Lee, M. Randeria, T. M. Rice, N. Trivedi and F.C. Zhang) // J. Phys. Condens. Matter 16, R755-R769 (2004).