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Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) offer wonderful examples of the radical macroscopic effects inherent in quantum physics: phase changes between different forms of matter driven by quantum rather than thermal fluctuations, typically at very low temperatures. QPTs provide new insight into outstanding problems such as high-temperature superconductivity and display fundamental aspects of quantum theory, such as strong correlations and entanglement. Over the last two decades, our understanding of QPTs has increased tremendously due to a plethora of experimental examples, powerful new numerical methods, and novel theoretical understanding of previously intractable quantum many-body problems.Understanding Quantum Phase Transitions organizes our current understanding of QPTs with an emphasis on examples from condensed matter physics. Bringing together 48 well known physicists involved with the theory and observation of QPTs, this unique work provides a thorough yet concise examination of the field. Each chapter takes readers through past discoveries right up through the latest research results, and then ends with open questions and unsolved problems.Part I treats new concepts and directions in QPTs, from dynamics through dissipation and entanglement, and includes introductory material suitable for scientists new to the field.Part II explores specific models, systems, and aspects of QPTs, including topological order, the Kondo lattice, the Jaynes-Cummings lattice, reduced dimensionality, finite-size effects and metastability, and QPTs in Bose-Einstein condensates.Part III covers experiments motivated by a deeper understanding of QPTs, including quantum dots, 2D electron systems, frustrated lattices in molecular antiferromagnets, heavy fermions, and ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Part IV presents advances in numerical methods used to study QPTs, including cluster Monte Carlo and the worm algorithm, matrix-product-state methods, and dynamical mean-field theory. Part V looks at the relevance of QPTs beyond condensed-matter physics, including their occurrence in neutron stars, the quark-gluon plasma, cavity QED systems, and string theory.Graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and professional scientists who seek a deep knowledge of QPTs will all find this book very useful. Researchers in the field will enhance their appreciation of the incredible breadth of the subject in chapters covering material outside their specialties.

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⭐I have had a copy of this book for nearly six months now, and it still surprises me how remarkably useful it turned out to be. It contains contributions from almost every distinguished worker in the field, to put together what amounts to a very thorough coverage of the state of the art in quantum phase transitions. But big namesdo not always make for a good book, and this is where “Understanding Quantum Phase Transitions” stands apart from other similar books I have read. It is clear that almost every contributor took the pains to not only summarize what is new in his/her field of expertize, but to also go the extra mile and write an account accessible to the non-expert,and even quite insightful in many instances. This is what makes this book so useful to me, because I am nowhere close to master the topic of quantum phase transition, but I do work almost exclusively in quantum mechanical problems. So now every time that I think that I am working on something related, of interest to, or that can benefit fromthe developments in quantum phase transitions, I check it out in this book.I will not point out contributions that I think are outstanding, to avoid the exercise in personal bias. In fact, what I like best about this book is that I have been able to learn quickly about all those topics that are not among my favorites.

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