# Philip A. Anderson

## +++ [condensed matter physics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfpZTV1C34A&list=WL&index=3) video

## [Anderson localization](https://knowen.org/nodes/27729)

## https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/anderson-lecture-1.pdf

## [A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/5458/ebin.pub_a-mind-over-matter-philip-anderson-and-the-physics-of-the-very-many-019886910x-9780198869108.pdf)

1949 Pressure Broadening of Molecular Absorption Lines
1950 Superexchange in Antiferromagnets
1951 A Model for Ferroelectricity
1952 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Antiferromagnets
1958 Disorder-Induced Localization
 Gauge Invariance of Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory
 Collective Excitations in Superconductors
1959 Theory of Dirty Superconductors
 Mott Repulsion as the Origin of Superexchange
1960 Origin of Superfluidity in Helium Three
 Soft Modes in Ferroelectrics
1961 Local Magnetic Moments in Metals
1962 Flux Creep in Superconductors
1963 Observation of the DC Josephson Effect
Concepts in Solids (book)
 Tunneling Spectra for Superconductors
 A Mechanism of Mass Generation for Elementary Particles
1966 Superfluid Flow Properties of Helium Four
1967 Infrared Catastrophe in Fermi Gases
 National Academy of Sciences
1975 Pulsar Glitches
1970 Renormalization Group Approach to the Kondo Effect
1972 Thermal Properties of Glasses
More is Different critiques reductionism and champions emergence
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 09/11/20, SPi
378 Appendix
1973 Resonating Valence Bonds in Insulators
 Spin Fluctuations in Helium Three
1977 Topological Theory of Defects
1975 Negative U Centers in Amorphous Semiconductors
 Theory of Spin Glasses
1977 Nobel Prize for Physics (1/3 share)
1979 Scaling Theory of Localization
1981 Emergence and Life
1984 Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics (book)
 Triplet Pairing in Heavy Fermion Superconductors
 Chemical Pseudopotentials
1985 Helps launch the Santa Fe Institute
1987 Resonating Valence Bond Theory of High-TC
Superconductivity
1988 The Economy as an Evolving Complex System (book)
 Strange Metals
1993 Congressional Testimony Opposing the Superconducting
Super Collider
1997 THE Theory of Superconductivity in the High-TC Cuprates (book)
2004 Plain Vanilla Theory of High-T Superconductivity
2006 Theory of the Pseudogap in the Cuprates
2012 Supersolidity

## [Hopfield- what happened to Solid State Physics](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031113-133924)

# Parents

* Physicists I knowmet
* On emergence - T&M

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