Dixon J.M., Tuszy'nski J.A., Clarkson P.A. From nonlinearity to coherence

Clarendon Press, 1997. — 625 p.
This book presents a unified view of many-body condensed matter systems as essentially nonlinear structures capable of exhibiting such features as chaos, coherence, soliton formation and phase transitions.Introductory concepts
Phase transitions and criticality
Elementary excitations in solids
Quantum field theory background
The method of coherent structures (MCS)
The physical application of MCS
Mathematical methods and results
Concusions
Appendices