Quantum Liquids: Bose Condensation and Cooper Pairing in Condensed-Matter Systems

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter systems.

Eschewing advanced formal methods, the author uses simple concepts and arguments to account for the various qualitatively new phenomena which occur in Bose-condensed and Cooper-paired systems, including but not limited to the spectacular macroscopic phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity. The physical systems discussed include liquid 4-He, the BEC alkali gases, 'classical' superconductors, superfluid 3-He, 'exotic' superconductors and the recently stabilized Fermi alkali gases. The book should be accessible to beginning graduate students in physics or advanced undergraduates.

從基本原理開始，本書介紹了玻色凝聚和庫珀配對這兩個密切相關的現象，其中大量的單粒子或粒子對被迫以完全相同的方式行為，並探討它們在凝聚態物質系統中的結果。

作者避免使用高級形式方法，而是使用簡單的概念和論證來解釋在玻色凝聚和庫珀配對系統中發生的各種新現象，包括但不限於超導和超流的壯觀宏觀現象。討論的物理系統包括液態4-He、玻色-愛因斯坦凝聚鹼金屬氣體、傳統超導體、超流3-He、異常超導體和最近穩定的費米鹼金屬氣體。本書適合物理學研究生初學者或高年級本科生閱讀。

Anthony James Leggett, Macarthur Professor and Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anthony J.Leggett was born in London, England in March 1938.He attended Balliol College, Oxford where he majored in Literae Humaniores (classical languages and literature, philosophy and Greco-Roman history), and thereafter Merton College, Oxford where he took a second undergraduate degree in
Physics. He completed a
D.Phil. degree in theoretical physics under the supervision of D.ter Haar. After postdoctoral research in Urbana, Kyoto and elsewhere he joined the faculty of the University of Sussex (UK) in 1967, being promoted to Reader in 1971 and to Professor in 1978. In 1983 he became John D. and Catherine T.
Macarthur Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position he currently holds. His principal research interests lie in the areas of condensed matter physics, particularly high-temperature superconductivity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.

安東尼·詹姆斯·萊吉特（Anthony James Leggett）是伊利諾伊大學香檳分校的麥克阿瑟教授和物理學教授。他於1938年3月出生於英國倫敦。他就讀於牛津大學巴利奧爾學院，主修文學人文學科（古典語言文學、哲學和希臘羅馬歷史），之後在牛津大學默頓學院獲得第二個本科學位，專攻物理學。他在D.ter Haar的指導下完成了理論物理學的博士學位。在香檳、京都和其他地方進行博士後研究後，他於1967年加入了蘇塞克斯大學（英國）的教職，並於1971年晉升為讀者，1978年晉升為教授。1983年，他成為伊利諾伊大學香檳分校的約翰·D.和凱瑟琳·T.麥克阿瑟教授，目前仍擔任該職位。他的主要研究興趣包括凝聚態物理學，特別是高溫超導性，以及量子力學的基礎。