Modern Trends in the Theory of Condensed Matter [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the XVI Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics, February 19 – March 3, 1979 Karpacz, Poland / edited by Andrzej Pękalski, Jerzy A. Przystawa.

Some experiments with liquid helium -- Diatomic molecules and cooper pairs -- Current density in the BCS ground state for a spatially non-uniform anisotropic superfluid -- Hamiltonian equations of hydrodynamics of quantum liquid in the presence of solitons -- Theory of ion mobility in liquid 3He -- The excitation spectra of liquid 4He at zero temperature and of a 3He atom moving in it -- Autocorrelation functions of density and transversal current for 3He(B) in the collisionless regime -- Microscopic derivation of orbital hydrodynamic equations in superfluid 3He-A -- Classical charged fluids at high density -- Locally nonuniform fluids -- Random walks on random lattices -- A lecture on the topological theory of defects in ordered media: How the old theory was leading to paradoxes, and how their resolution comes within the larger frameworks of homotopy theory -- The frustration model -- Macroscopic description of spin glasses -- Spin glasses for the long ranged and short ranged bond ising models without using the replica method -- Spin glass with nonmagnetic impurities -- Magnetic excitations in ferromagnets and structural disorder -- May disorder create frequency gaps in phonon spectra? -- Mott versus anderson localization in 1t-TaS2 -- Theory of impurity states in heavily doped semiconductors -- “On the fermi surfaces of random substitutional alloys” -- Theory of superconducting transition temperature, pair susceptibility, and coherence length -- Phase transitions and symmetry -- Theory of elastic phase transitions and soft acoustic modes -- Structural phase transitions into incommensurate phases -- On the theory of structural phase transitions in magnetic crystals -- Displacive reconstruction phase transitions of clean transition metal and semiconductor surfaces -- Dense phases of hydrogen -- Properties of metals and the local geometry of the fermi surfaces -- A new method of obtaining information about phonon density of states and electron-phonon interaction in metals -- Interaction between strong radiation fields and two-level atoms: A canonical transformation approach.