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Please be warned that these are the notes i prepare for myself to lecture from they are not in general carefully prepared. A seemingly simple question with an obvious answer it is the physics of solids and liquids condensed phases of matter. Lecture notes strongly correlated systems in condensed. Careers in condensed matter physics american institute. Condensed matter theory massachusetts institute of technology room 6c339 cambridge, ma 029 fax. Kogut, an introduction to lattice gauge theory and spin systems, rev. Computational condensed matter physics ccmp group university of arkansas. Jin, introduction to condensed matter physics i world scienti c, singapore, 2005 new and with a distinctly modern avor and set of topics. Lecture notes on condensed matter physics a work in.
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