Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
Soft condensed matter physics is the study of materials, such as fluids, liquid crystals, polymers, colloids, and emulsions, that are ``soft" to the touch. This article will review some properties, such as the dominance of entropy, that are unique to soft materials and some properties such as the interplay between broken-symmetry, dynamic mode structure, and topological defects that are common to all condensed matter systems but which are most easily studied in soft systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9609215,
title = {Soft Condensed Matter Physics},
author = {T. C. Lubensky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9609215},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 Pages, RevTeX, 7 postscript figures. To appear in Solid State Communications