Brewer D.F. (ed.) Progress in Low Temperature Physics. Volume VIIb

Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1978. — 411 p.I have felt that one of the areas of greatest and growing interest - and not only in low temperature physics - is the behaviour of finite systems with limited dimensionality, to which is also attached the properties of surfaces. Hence the general articles by Kosterlitz and Thouless on two dimensional physics, and the more specific topics of "moderately small" superconductors by Fink, Bibby and McLachlan, quasi-one-dimensional superconductors by Gor'kov, and the surface of liquid helium by Edwards and Saam. The most exciting development of course, since 1970 has been the discovery of the new phases of liquid ³He in 1971, now known to be superfluid, and I have yielded to the temptation to give this what may be regarded as excessive attention in the three chapters by Wheatley, by Brinkman and Cross, and by Wblflc. To counteract the tendency towards concentration on superfluids, the articles by Flouquet and by Griiner and Zawadowski describe progress in the area of magnetism and nuclear orientation that has commanded interest for a long time and continues to develop.Two-dimensional physics, J.M. Kosterlitz and D.J. Thouless
First and second order phase transitions of moderately small superconductors in a magnetic field, H.J. Fink, D.S. McLachlan and B. Rothberg Bibby
Properties of the A-15 compounds and one-dimensionality, L.P. Gor'kov
Low temperature properties of Kondo alloys, G. Griiner and A. Zawadowski
Application of low temperature nuclear orientation to metals with magnetic impurities, J. Flouquet