TY - BOOK AU - Geyer,Hendrik B. ED - Chris Engelbrecht Summer School on Theoretical Physics TI - Field theory, topology and condensed matter physics: proceedings of the Ninth Chris Engelbrecht Summer School on Theoretical Physics, held at Storms River Mouth, Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa, 17-28 January 1994 T2 - Lecture notes in physics, SN - 9783540494553 AV - QC173.68 .C48 1994 U1 - 537.6/2 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Berlin, New York PB - Springer-Verlag KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Congresses KW - Condensed matter KW - Topology KW - Quantum Hall effect KW - Superconductivity KW - fast KW - Veldentheorie KW - gtt KW - Topologie KW - Vastestoffysica KW - Kondensierte Materie KW - swd KW - Feldtheorie KW - Stellenbosch <1994> KW - Electronic books KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - Stellenbosch (1994) KW - Tsitsikama (1994) N1 - Includes bibliographical references; From the contents: Introduction to Conformal Invariance in Statistical Mechanics and to Random Surface Models -- Introduction to Path Integrals, Matrix Models and Strings -- Quantum Hall Fluids -- Topological Orders and Edge Excitations in Fractional Quantum Hall States -- Topological Mechanism of Superconductivity; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - This topical volume contains five pedagogically written articles on the interplay between field theory and condensed matter physics. The main emphasis is on the topological aspects, and especially quantum Hall fluids, and superconductivity is treated extensively. Other topics are conformal invariance and path integrals. The articles are carefully edited so that the book could ideally serve as a text for special graduate courses UR - https://link-springer-com.libraryproxy.ist.ac.at/10.1007/BFb0113366 ER -