Condensed Matter Theory: review articles on the web. Sometimes, when I come across a review (or large article or basic-material article) that seems like it might be interesting to me at some future point, I might remember to add it to this list. The list is pretty random and no claim is made of completeness, usefulness, or correctness. Note (pre-2005): Akakii Melikidze (Koka) has a wonderful list of reviews & papers available on the web, especially geared to younger condmat theorists and newcomers. Go directly to his princeton site http://PUPGG.PRINCETON.EDU/~melikidze/lit.htmlx. The MIT mirror is usually several months behind Akakii's latest additions. Update (late 2005): Koka has since left physics; so I don't know if or how the above website is being maintained. ************************************************************************* finding review papers/ lecture notes: http://web.mit.edu/~redingtn/www/netadv/biblio2.html for the Koka's compilation. search xxx.lanl.gov condensed matter with `houches' in full record. search xxx.lanl.gov condensed matter with `lecture' or `school' or `method' in abstract; and variations. "Contemporary Physics", a European journal, linked as e-journal from rutgers libraries. "Annals of Physics" is linked as e-journal from rutgers libraries. April/May 2000 issue reproduces some important old papers, including 'Hydrodynamic Equations and Correlation Functions' by Kadanoff&Martin. ************************************************************************* phase transitions, classical & quantum, nonequilibrium: cond-mat/0012164 Critical Phenomena and Renormalization-Group Theory --- A Pelissetto, E Vicari 114 pgs also look at other papers by the same authors hep-ph/0005122 Non-Perturbative Renormalization Flow in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics by J Berges, N Tetradis, C Wetterich 178 pages Adv in Physics vol 47 Number 1: Theory of phase transitions in two-dimensional systems. by Zsolt Gulacsi; Miklos Gulacsi cond-mat/0007293 Phase Transitions in one-dimensional nonequilibrium systems by M R Evans , 28-page review, haven't checked it out. ************** cond-mat/9811058 Quantum phase transitions by Belitz & Kirkpatrick also 9707001 Qu ph transitions in electronic systems, same authors. both look like accessible introductions cond-mat/9609279 Continuous Quantum Phase Transitions by S L Sondhi, S M Girvin, J P Carini, D Shahar 49-page review cond-mat/0102119 Quantum Phase Transitions M Lavagna 13 pg cond-mat/0301423 Some basic aspects of quantum phase transitions --- D V Shopova, D I Uzunov 81 pages, Phys. Rep.(2003) includes big sections on Bosons. cond-mat/0009456 Quantum Criticality: competing ground states in low dimensions --- Subir Sachdev 19 pages cond-mat/9908008 Quantum phase transitions in antiferromagnets and superfluids --- Subir Sachdev, Matthias Vojta 11 pg cond-mat/0108214 Ground states of quantum antiferromagnets in two dimensions ---- Subir Sachdev, Kwon Park 44 pages, 19 figures; RMP-style review ************** cond-mat/0210435 Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions --- Zoltan Racz Les Houches notes, 2002, 43 pg, 11 figs cond-mat/0501259 Universal scaling behavior of non-equilibrium phase transitions --- S. Lubeck 160 pg review. ********************************************************************* Non-equilibrium (quantum) techniques, Keldysh etc. cond-mat/0506130 Introduction to the Keldysh formalism and applications to time-dependent density-functional theory --- R. van Leeuwen, N.E. Dahlen, G. Stefanucci, C.-O. Almbladh, U. von Barth 17 pgs. ********************************************************************* Quantum Magnetism cond-mat/0412662 Quantum magnetism in two dimensions: From semi-classical Neel order to magnetic disorder --- J. Richter, J. Schulenburg, A. Honecker 69-page, Lecture notes, part of some collection on magnetism. ********************************************************************* Superconductivity, BCS. (More conventional. Excluding high Tc): cond-mat/0106143 Electron - Phonon Superconductivity --- F Marsiglio, J P Carbotte Review Chapter to appear in `The Physics of Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors' edited by K.H. Bennemann & J.B. Ketterson (Springer-Verlag), 123 pages, including 40 figures, seems like a review of conventional BCS, Migdal-Eliashberg formalism. cond-mat/0303485 Field Theoretical Approaches to the Superconducting Phase Transition --Flavio S. Nogueira, Hagen Kleinert, 33 pages, interesting review ************************************************************************* 2D physics. Kosterlitz-Thouless physics. 2D electrons. hep-th/0003190 A Collection of Exercises in Two-Dimensional Physics, Part 1 -- C J Efthimiou, D A Spector ~ 230 pages, theory + problems Adv in Physics vol 47 Number 1: Theory of phase transitions in two-dimensional systems. by Zsolt Gulacsi; Miklos Gulacsi cond-mat/0211262 Cluster Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Quantum Rotor Model -- Fabien Alet, Erik S. Sorensen The introduction gives references to 2D bose-hubbard work. cond-mat/0405556 Metal-insulator transitions and the effects of electron-electron interactions in two-dimensional electron systems --- A. A. Shashkin review. ********************************************************************* Quantum Hall Effect & Hall Ferromagnets: cond-mat/0209206 Twenty years since the discovery of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: current state of the theory --- M.I. Dyakonov, 15 pg, cond-mat/0009372 Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems: Spin-Pseudospin Symmetry Breaking and Quantum Phase Transitions -- S Das Sarma, Eugene Demler 7-page, review of phases in quant hall systems in the presence of additional degs of freedom e.g. spin & pseudospin. cond-mat/0111001 Stripe and bubble phases in quantum Hall systems --- Michael M Fogler (MIT) 40 pages, pedagogical review cond-mat/0206122 Some Basic Aspects of Fractional Quantum Numbers --- Frank Wilczek 22-page "review" cond-mat/9410047 Introduction to the Physics of the Quantum Hall Regime by A H MacDonald cond-mat/9907002 The Quantum Hall Effect: Novel Excitations and Broken Symmetries by Steven M Girvin cond-mat/0108271 Theories of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect R Shankar Based on Cargese Lectures, May 2001. 31 pg Rep Prog Phys 60 (1997) 889-939 Composite fermions in the quantum Hall effect by B L Johnson and G Kirczenow http://www.iop.org/EJ/S/3/112/ehNPN0Qv9YVHsH8FUk82tQ/toc/0034-4885/60/9 cond-mat/9708067 Field Theoretical Approach To Quantum Hall Ferromagnets by Rashmi Ray, Joan Soto ~35 pages cond-mat/9802244 Field Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect-I Ganpathy Murthy, R Shankar 42 pg ********************************************************************* High-tc and other unconventional superconductivity: cond-mat/0405038 SO(5) Theory of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity --- E. Demler, Werner Hanke, S.-C. Zhang 81 pages cond-mat/0102111 Pseudogap in High - Temperature Superconductors --- M.V.Sadovskii 76 pg cond-mat/9806164 lecture notes by matthew fisher; title: Mott Insulators, Spin Liquids and Quantum Disordered Superconductivity ************** cond-mat/0112028 Universality of the Intermediate Phase and High-Temperature Superconductivity in C60 --- J C Phillips ************************************************************************* miscellaneous: ond-mat/0302159 Coulomb blockade and Kondo effect in quantum dots --- L I Glazman, M Pustilnik, tutorial article, 21 pages. cond-mat/0401517 Kondo effect in quantum dots --- Pustilnik & Glazman math-ph/0103018 Conformal Invariance and Percolation --- John Cardy 39-page, cond-mat/0307004 Many Body Physics: Unfinished Revolution --- Piers Coleman (Rutgers) ~20 pages, write-up of talk at TH-2002, Paris cond-mat/0206003 Local moment physics in heavy electron systems --- P. Coleman (Rutgers) 80-pg review, Kondo effect, QuantCritPoints etc. cond-mat/0412664 Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures --- C.W.J. Beenakker, H. van Houten 111 pages, 109 figures; this review from 1991 has retained much of its usefulness, but it was not yet available electronically. cond-mat/0403123 Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: DynamicalMean-Field Theory and Electronic Structure --- Antoine Georges 71 pages cond-mat/0411452 Nonlinear excitations: Solitons --- A. Mourachkine (Cambridge) 21 pg, many figures. Intro to solitons. Book chapter in a volume on high-Tc. cond-mat/0004497 Polarons big review! --- J T Devreese (Universiteit Antwerpen) 64 pages cond-mat/0109146 Frustrated quantum magnets C Lhuillier, G Misguich, 21 pg cond-mat/0504681 A Crash Course on Aging --- Giulio Biroli cond-mat/9907052 Replica and Glasses by Giorgio Parisi cond-mat/0301157 Glasses, replicas and all that --- Giorgio Parisi, Lectures, les Houches 2002 summer school cond-mat/0110363 Statistical Physics of the Glass Phase --- Marc Mezard 10-page cond-mat/0507581 Spin Glasses --- Francesco Guerra 25 pgs math-ph/0010018 Statistical Mechanics: A Selective Review of Two Central Issues --- Joel L. Lebowitz 36 pgs cond-mat/9512169 The Hubbard Model: Introduction and Selected Rigorous Results by Hal Tasaki Tasaki has some other reviews on hubbard model: eg discussing ferromag cond-mat/0207572 Dynamics of two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays --- Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Hans Beck 53 pg, 10 figs, review article cond-mat/0106004 Percolation, Renormalization and the Quantum-Hall Transition --- Rudolf A. Römer 17 pgs pedagogical introduction and overview of percolation theory. cond-mat/0105253 O(n) Spin Systems- Some General Properties: A Generalized Mermin-Wagner Theorem, Ground States, Peierls Bounds, and Dynamics --- Zohar Nussinov 22-page cond-mat/0103389 Magnetism of correlated systems: beyond LDA --- A I Lichtenstein, M I Katsnelson cond-mat/0106115 The World of the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation --- I Aranson, L Kramer <~25-page discussion of uses & properties of cubic GL, ie Gross-Pitaevskii eq> hep-ph/9812468 A Goldstone Boson Primer by C.P. Burgess 15-page article hep-th/9808176 Goldstone and Pseudo-Goldstone Bosons in Nuclear, Particle and Condensed-Matter Physics by C.P. Burgess, 119-page article cond-mat/9812110 Lectures on Non Perturbative Field Theory and Quantum Impurity Problems by H Saleur, 56 pg, conformal field thy etc. cond-mat/9508062 Quantum Theory of Large Systems of Non-Relativistic Matter by J Froehlich, U M Studer, E Thiran 145 pages, gauge theories, Ah-Bohm effect & its SU(2) counterpart, 2D systems, quantum hall systems. Froehlich also has a number of other review articles on the xxx.lanl service: on bosonization, RG & fermiliquids, quantum hall system etc. cond-mat/0005391 Dirac, Anderson, and Goldstone on the Kagome by M.B.Hastings cond-mat/0005431 Vortices observed and to be observed by G.E. Volovik topological defects in many systems, similar to the ones in superfluid A-phase of 3He. Volovik also has other papers on the wonderful phases of 3He, e.g.: cond-mat/9510065 Aspects of 3He and the Standard Electroweak Model by Volovik & Vachaspati cond-mat/9910260 Broken Symmetry and Nonequilibrium Superfluid 3He by J A Sauls Adv in Physics Volume 48 Number 5 Sep'99: Magnetism of actinide compounds by P. Santini; Romuald Lemanski; Paul Erdos Rep Prog Phys 63 (2000) 607-667 An introduction to conformal field theory by Matthias R Gaberdiel http://www.iop.org/EJ/S/3/112/ehNPN0Qv9YVHsH8FUk82tQ/toc/0034-4885/63/4 A book on the web: Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter (1989) by H Kleinert: http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/b1/ ********************************************************************* Bose gas: cond-mat/0105058 Bose-Einstein condensates in atomic gases: simple theoretical results --- Yvan Castin, 146 pgs Les Houches lecture, must-read asap cond-mat/0012418 Cold Trapped Atoms: A Mesoscopic System --- Kerson Huang, 21 pages, 18 eps figs nice review cond-mat/0012223 Degenerate Quantum Gases and Bose-Einstein Condensation --- Luca Salasnich 22 pgs, 8 figs nice review cond-mat/0209034 Ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices --- O Morsch, E Arimondo, 20 pages cond-mat/0111507 Renormalization Group Analysis of a Confined, Interacting Bose Gas --- G Alber, G Metikas 24 pages cond-mat/0102003 Vortices in a trapped dilute Bose-Einstein condensate Alexander Fetter, Anatoly Svidzinsky 50 pg cond-mat/0405589 Vortices in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates: an Introduction --- Sankalpa Ghosh 64 page but double-spaced cond-mat/0111375 Nonequilibrium relaxation of Bose-Einstein condensates: Real-time equations of motion and Ward identities --- D Boyanovsky, S-Y Wang, D-S Lee, H-L Yu, S M Alamoudi 24 pg dielectric formalism paper: A quantum field theory of excitations in a bose-condensed liquid, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol 290, Issues 1-2, 1 Feb 2001, Pages 39-59 by Toyoyuki Kitamura search using sciencedirect: www.sciencedirect.com/ cond-mat/9712041 Quantum Corrections to the Energy Density of a Homogeneous Bose Gas by E Braaten, A Nieto 29 pages + 6 figures cond-mat/0006475 Conserving and gapless model of the weakly interacting Bose gas by M Fliesser, J Reidl, P Szépfalusy, R Graham ~35 page paper on two models; `dielectric formalism' cond-mat/9804171 Condensate Fluctuations in Trapped Bose Gases: Canonical vs. Microcanonical Ensemble - Martin Holthaus, E Kalinowski K Kirsten, 32 pg Ann Phys 276 (1999) p 321-360 The Saddle-Point Method for Condensed Bose Gases by M Holthaus & E Kalinowski http://www.idealibrary.com/links/toc/aphy/276/2/0 cond-mat/9904034 Making, probing and understanding Bose-Einstein condensates by W.Ketterle, Durfee, D.M.Stamper-Kurn (~90 page, basic physics behind the experiments) cond-mat/0008070 The Theory of Atom Lasers - R Ballagh & CM Savage big review ********************************************************************* Simulations: Ceperley's lecture notes describing variational, diffusion and Path Integral Monte Carlo (60-page postscript), is linked at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Apps/CMP/method.html cond-mat/9612186 Introduction To Monte Carlo Algorithms by Werner Krauth 43-page paper Rep Prog Phys 60 #5(1997)487-559 Applications of Monte Carlo methods to statistical physics by K Binder 73-page, elementary beginning http://www.iop.org/EJ/S/3/112/bBUfWDtXhJn1X2FwKRipaw/toc/0034-4885/60/5 cond-mat/0104167 Monte Carlo for Statistical Physics: An Elementary Introduction K P N Murthy & V Sirdhar 8pgs cond-mat/0104215 Monte Carlo: Basics K P N Murthy 74 pgs ********************************************************************* Bosonization + 1D + Exact Solvability: Adv in Physics Vol 49 Number 2 () Multidimensional bosonization by A Houghton; H Kwon; J B Marston 88-page paper, contains intro to bosonization in 1d also. http://alidoro.catchword.com/vl=77173486/cl=1/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/tandf/00018732/v49n2/contp1-1.htm 39-pg review by Senechal: cond-mat/9908262 An introduction to bosonization cond-mat/0005492 An introduction to bosonization and some of its applications by S Rao, D Sen 68 pages nlin.SI/0305050 Exact solvability in contemporary physics --- A Foerster, J Links, H.-Q. Zhou, 23 pages [Review the theory for exactly solving quantum Hamiltonian systems through algebraic Bethe ansatz. Demonstrate how theory applies to current studies in BEC etc.] cond-mat/9708087 Thermodynamical Bethe Ansatz and Condensed Matter --- Minoru Takahashi 52 pages, 6 figures Intro to and overview of Bethe ansatz cond-mat/9408101 Integrble Models in Condensed Matter Physics --- Natan Andrei Trieste '92 lectures. ************************************************************************* fermi & non-fermi, 1D cond-mat/0506035 Fundamental aspects of electron correlations and quantum transport in one-dimensional systems --- Dmitrii L. Maslov 2004 Les Houches lecture notes, 108 pages, 17 figures. cond-mat/9807366 Fermi liquids and Luttinger liquids by H J Schulz, G Cuniberti, P Pieri contains description of RG cond-mat/9503150 Fermi liquids and non--Fermi liquids --- H. J. Schulz 1994 Les Houches lect-notes, 59 pgs, much-cited. cond-mat/0305035 Luttinger Liquids: The Basic Concepts --- K Schonhammer, 42 pgs One-dimensional Fermi liquids -- J Voit Rep. Prog. Phys. 58 (September 1995) 977-1116 cond-mat/0103393 Singular Fermi Liquids --- C M Varma, Z Nussinov, W van Saarloos 170 pgs; "non-fermi liquids" cond-mat/0209493 Geometry and topological order in the non-relativistic Luttinger liquid --- H V Kruis, I P McCulloch, Z Nussinov, J Zaanen 4-pg, discussion of Ogata-Shiba cond-mat/9508063 Renormalization Group Methods: Landau-Fermi Liquid and BCS Superconductor by J Froehlich, T Chen, M Seifert 50-page, a bit mathematical. cond-mat/0304375An introduction to numerical methods in low-dimensional quantum systems ---A L Malvezzi, 36 pgs Lanczos Method and DMRG discussed, for Hubbard, spin-chains. ************************************************************************* disroder, localization, random-matrix-thy: cond-mat/0205116 Disordered Systems and the Functional Renormalization Group: A Pedagogical Introduction --- Kay Joerg Wiese 11-page. cond-mat/0006421 Statistics of energy levels and eigenfunctions in disordered and chaotic systems: Supersymmetry Approach by A D Mirlin, 76-pg cond-mat/0103008 Quantum Effects in Coulomb Blockade I L Aleiner, P W Brouwer, L I Glazman, 169 pages, 28 figures; cond-mat/9811056 Quantum kinetic theory: The disordered electron problem by T R Kirkpatrick, D Belitz cond-mat/9602071 Spectral Fluctuations in Disordered Metals by Gilles Montambaux Rep Prog Phys 56 #12 (1993) 1469-1564 Localization: theory and experiment http://www.iop.org/EJ/S/3/112/bBUfWDtXhJn1X2FwKRipaw/toc/0034-4885/56/12 ~90-page paper, perhaps a bit easier than altshuler's lectures. cond-mat/9808053 & 9803125, by Altshuler, Gershenson, Aleiner: Interaction effects and phase relaxation in disordered systems (34 pages) & Phase Relaxation of Electrons in Disordered Conductors (15 pages) cond-mat/9907494 Interactions and Weak Localization: Perturbation Theory and Beyond by D S Golubev, A D Zaikin 49 pg ********************************************************************* Density Functional Theory -- cond-mat/0211443 A bird's-eye view of density-functional theory --- Klaus Capelle 43 pgs ********************************************************************* INSTANTONS cond-mat/9710038 Instanton in Disordered Peierls Systems AND cond-mat/9805085 Instanton calculation of the density of states of disordered Peierls chains by Maxim Mostovoy, Jasper Knoester ********************************************************************* VORTICES in superconductors cond-mat/0103013 On the Phase Behavior of Disordered Type-II Superconductors by Gautam I. Menon 69pgs Brandt EH. The flux-line lattice in superconductors. [Journal Paper] Reports on Progress in Physics, vol.58, no.11, Nov. 1995, pp.1465-594 ********************************************************************* Manganites & Double Exchange -- cond-mat/0212466 Theory of Manganites -- Takashi Hotta, Elbio Dagotto ~60 pages ********************************************************************* *********************************************************************