Download or read book Topology Of Strongly Correlated Systems, Procs Of The Xviii Lisbon Autumn School written by Pedro Bicudo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-08-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The XVIII Lisbon Autumn School brought together physicists from different areas, ranging from QCD to condensed matter. This subject will be of ever-growing importance in the coming years. The topics covered are: Anomalies, Physical Charges, Chiral Symmetry, Vortices (Superconductivity, Solitons, Kosterlitz-Thouless Transitions), Non-trivial Topology on the Lattice, Confinement (Wilson Loops and Strings, Instantons, Abelian Higgs Model, Dual QCD).