Condensed Matter Theories, Volume 17

Contents: Vortices in a Trapped Dilute Base Condensate; The Composite Fermion State as a Paradigm for Emergent Behaviour; Superfluid Phases of Triplet Pairing; Correlations and Quantum Condensates in Dense Fermion Systems; Collective Modes of BCS and BE Paired Systems with Non-S-Wave Symmetry; The Fractional Charge in the Quantum Hall Effect; Electric-Field Induced Formation of Superconducting Balls; Mesoscopic Transport as Many-Body Physics; Mesoscopic Kondo Effect; Strongly Interacting Electric Bilayers; Ferromagnetic Fixed Point of the Kondo Model in a Luttinger Liquid; Diffusion Monte Carlo Study of Ground State Properties of Quantum Rings; The Exchange-Correlation Hole and the Metal-Insulator Transition in Two-Dimensional Systems; Quantum Phase Transitions in Spin-Lattice Systems With and Without Frustration; The Doped t-j ladder Via Series Expansions; A Fast Method for Solving Kohn-Sham and Gross-Pitaevskii Equations in 3D; Microstructure of Liquid Para-Hydrogen; Many-Body Effects in Spin Transport and Spin-Density Functional Theory; Plaquette Expansion in Lattice Hamiltonian Field Theory; Improved Variational Calculations in Hamiltonian Field Theory; Multiscale Modelling of Many Body Systems; Self-Organisation in Neural Matter; Simulations of Magnetic Dynamics in Iron-Cobalt Films; Magnetic Properties of Systems with Reduced Dimensionality Containing Magnetic and Nonmagnetic Atoms; Exchange Bias After 40 Years: New Mechanisms; Competition Between Magnetic Order and Dimerisation in Low-Dimensional Antiferromagnets; Excitonic Processes in Amorphous Semiconductors; Bloch Calculations of Electron Properties for Silicon and Silver; Formation of Excitons in a Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Bilayer; Magnetophoton-Phonon Scattering in Two-Dimesnional Electron Gases.