Editing Condensed matter physics (section)

==Etymology==
According to physicist [[Philip Warren Anderson]], the use of the term "condensed matter" to designate a field of study was coined by him and [[Volker Heine]], when they changed the name of their group at the [[Cavendish Laboratories]], [[Cambridge]], from ''Solid state theory'' to ''Theory of Condensed Matter'' in 1967,<ref name=pwa-princeton>{{cite web|title=Philip Anderson|url=http://www.princeton.edu/physics/people/display_person.xml?netid=pwa&display=faculty |website=Department of Physics|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=27 March 2012}}</ref> as they felt it better included their interest in liquids, [[nuclear matter]], and so on.<ref name=wsn>{{cite journal|title=In Focus: More and Different|url=http://www.worldscientific.com/newsletter/newsletter/nov11n33p02.shtml|journal=World Scientific Newsletter|date=November 2011|volume=33 |page=2|last = Anderson|first = Philip W.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Anderson|first=Philip W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HhQDwAAQBAJ|title=Basic Notions Of Condensed Matter Physics|date=2018-03-09|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-429-97374-1|language=en}}</ref> Although Anderson and Heine helped popularize the name "condensed matter", it had been used in Europe for some years, most prominently in the [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer-Verlag]] journal ''Physics of Condensed Matter'', launched in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTsgAAAAIAAJ|title=''Physics of Condensed Matter''|volume=1|access-date=20 April 2015|year=1963}}</ref> The name "condensed matter physics" emphasized the commonality of scientific problems encountered by physicists working on solids, liquids, plasmas, and other complex matter, whereas "solid state physics" was often associated with restricted industrial applications of metals and semiconductors. In the 1960s and 70s, some physicists felt the more comprehensive name better fit the funding environment and [[Cold War]] politics of the time.<ref name=martin-pip>{{cite journal|last=Martin|first=Joseph D. |title=What's in a Name Change? Solid State Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Materials Science|journal=Physics in Perspective |date=2015|volume=17|issue= 1|doi=10.1007/s00016-014-0151-7|pages=3–32|bibcode= 2015PhP....17....3M|s2cid=117809375 |url=http://dro.dur.ac.uk/29168/1/29168.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://dro.dur.ac.uk/29168/1/29168.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live }}</ref>

References to "condensed" states can be traced to earlier sources. For example, in the introduction to his 1947 book ''Kinetic Theory of Liquids'',<ref name=Frenkel>{{cite book|last=Frenkel|first=J.|title=Kinetic Theory of Liquids|year=1947|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> [[Yakov Frenkel]] proposed that "The kinetic theory of liquids must accordingly be developed as a generalization and extension of the kinetic theory of solid bodies. As a matter of fact, it would be more correct to unify them under the title of 'condensed bodies{{'"}}.