Langbeschreibung
This book is devoted to the scientific impact of the work of Nobel Laureate, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. It covers the important fields for which de Gennes was renowned: solid state (magnetism and superconductivity), macroscopic random media and percolation, supersolids and liquid crystals.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface (J Prost); Magnetism (J Friedel); Surface Bound States in Unconventional Superconductors: An Unforseen Consequence of Earlier Work by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Daniel Saint-James (G Deutscher); Superconductivity at High Temperature in the Cuprates (J Bok); Macroscopic Random Media and Percolation (J-P Hulin et al.); Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Supersolidity - Comment on C R Physique 7, 561-566 (2006) (S Balibar); On An Analogy Between Superconductors and Smectics-AA" (T Lubensky); On a Few Universal Aspects of Liquid Crystals (P Pieranski).