Condensed Matter Physics (Wiley-Interscience) Condensed Matter Physics book

[Roman]

hello,

do you have any experience with this book:
Condensed Matter Physics, Michael P. Marder, Wiley & Sons.
Is this good for the first contact to condensed matter physics, or can you recomend me another book?

[Astronuc]

Marder is pretty good.

See this thread - Textbooks on Condensed Matter Physics
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=80288&highlight=Materials

Hopefully, ZapperZ and Gokul will jump in here.

[Roman]

thank you for the link, Astronuc.

I'm especially interested in quantum-liquid-theory, maybe there are any lecture notes on the web? i did a search and didnt find something, maybe someone is more lucky?

[Astronuc]

Quantum liquid theory is new to me.

Perhaps this might be of interest -

TOPOLOGICAL ORDERS AND CHERN-SIMONS THEORY
IN STRONGLY CORRELATED QUANTUM LIQUID
http://dao.mit.edu/~wen/pub/topcs.pdf

Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521821124

Microscopic construction of the chiral Luttinger liquid theory of the quantum Hall edge
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402562

http://arxiv.org/archive/cond-mat - search for quantum liquid or Luttinger liquid

[ZapperZ]

I haven't heard of "quantum liquid theory" either... Landau's Fermi liquid theory, yes, but not quantum liquid theory.

Zz.