Chapter 2 Atoms and Elements atom- smallest identifiable unit of an element element- a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances -there.
Motivation: What Charge Density Waves can tell to : Doped Mott Insulators and Spin-Polarized Superconductors SC. Solitons from CDWs to FFLO in superconductors.
Atomic Discovery Early Models of the Atom 400 B.C. – Democritus proposed the existence of fundamental particles of matter that were indivisible and indestructible.