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This book is an introduction to the physics of elementary
excitations in condensed matter with emphasis on basic concepts and
their mathematical representations. The nature of the book is
mainly determined by the fact that it was originally written, in
Japanese, as one volume of Iwanami Series of Fundamental Physics
supervised by Professor H. Yukawa. Our task was to portray the
theory of condensed matter from a unified point of view for the
student looking for his own research field and also for more senior
readers interested in fundamentals of contemporary physics. As our
point of view, we chose the concept of elementary excitation, which
we believe to be one of the most fruitful concepts discovered by
the quantum theory of matter. The present English edition has been
translated by the authors themselves from the second, revised
Japanese edition published in 1978, six years after publication of
the first edition. In translating, we have introduced no major
modifications; only the list of references has been made more
suitable to overseas readers. In the English as well as in the
Japanese editions, Chaps. 1,4, and part of 6 were written by
Nakajima, Chaps. 2, 5, and 7 by Toyozawa, and Chaps. 3 and part of
6 by Abe. Finally we should like to thank Professor P. Fulde for
kind help and Dr. H. Lotsch, SpriIiger-Verlag, for patient
cooperation in making this English edition a reality.
In this volume of Reviews of Physiology there are three outstanding contributions, the first on Selenium-containing proteins in mammals and other forms of life, and the second on constitutively active and G-protein coupled inward rectifier K+ channels: Kir2.0 and Kir3.0 and the third on Chloroplast quest: a journey from the cytosol into the chloroplast and beyond.
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