I am a condensed matter theorist, a field in which I played the role of a major agenda-setter for 40 or so years (in fact I believe a colleague and I named the field in 1967 when we named our group in Cambridge--before that it was "solid state theory"). On occasional forays outside CMT I worked on pulsar glitches with David Pines and invented the "Higgs" boson in 1962. Since 1987 I have worked in that field almost exclusively on "High-Tc" superconductivity, a terribly complex and controversial field in which my contributions have at least the virtue of longevity. I became emeritus in 1997 at Princeton, where I have been since 1975; but my longest association was with Bell Labs 1949-84.

I got into the Santa Fe Institute universe via the condensed matter phenomenon of the "spin glass', which I named in 1970 and produced the first theory with Sir Sam Edwards in 1975. Via work with Kirkpatrick and palmer, and later Stein, we came to realise that this was an important link between statistical physics and complex optimisation, and in the latter guise it spawned algorithms(simulated annealing), work on computational complexity, on neural nets (the Hopfield model etc), and on evolution on rugged landscapes. This was part of the Santa Fe Institute "toolkit" in the early days which for instance we showed off to John Reed of Citicorp in 1986.

I also had developed an interest in economics via dilletantish studies in Cambridge, and was glad to help organise the global economy workshop in 1987, choosing a group of hard scientists to try to mesh with Arrow's ten economists, apparently with some success. I retain a watching interest in econ especially in pareto distributions on which I have one article and lots of acknowledgements.

An older theme arose from my 1971 article "More is Different", which I follow up by writing on topics in epistemology of science.

My earlier interests included Spectral Line Broadening, Magnetism, Broken Symmetry, Superfluidity in 3He, Transport Theory and Localization, Random Statistical Systems, and Prebiotic Evolution.

• Philip W. Anderson
  Do we Need (or Want) a Bosonic Glue to Pair Electrons in High Tc Superconductors
  cond-mat/0609040

• Philip W. Anderson
  Two New Vortex Fluids
  cond-mat/0606429
  submitted to Nature Phys
• Philip W. Anderson
  Dynamics of the Vortex Fluid in Cuprate Superconductors: The Nernst Effect
  Cond-mat/0603726
• B Edegger, Claudius Gros, V Muthukumar, Philip W. Anderson
  Electronic Structure of Gutzwiller Projected Superconductors
  cond-mat/0512646
  submitted to PNAS: accepted
• Philip W. Anderson
  The “Strange Metal” is a Projected Fermi Liquid with Edge Singularities
  cond-mat/0512471
  submitted to Nature Physics - accepted
• Philip W. Anderson
  Present Status of the Theory of High Tc Cuprates
  cond-mat/0510053
  TBP, Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• Philip W. Anderson, W F Brinkman, David A Huse
  Thermodynamics of an Incommensurate Quantum Crystal
  Cond-mat/0507654
  Science 310, 1164 2005
• Philip W. Anderson
  Physics of a Superfluid Solid
  cond-mat/0504731
• Philip W. Anderson
  Physics of the Pseudogap State: Spin-Charge Locking
  cond-mat/0504453
  Phys Rev Lett 96, 017001 (2006)
• Philip W. Anderson
  A Suggested 4x4 Structure is Underdoped Cuprates
  cond-mat/0406038
• Philip W. Anderson, N P Ong
  Theory of Asymmetric Tunneling in the Cuprate Superconductors
  cond-mat/0405518
  J Phys Chem Solids 67, 1-5 (2006)
• N P Ong, Weida Wu, P M Chaikin, Philip W. Anderson
  Phase Coherence and the Nernst Effect at Magic Angles in Organic Conductors
  cond-mat/0401159
  Europhys Lett 66, 579 2004
• Philip W. Anderson, P A Lee, Mohit Randeria, T M Rice, N Trivedi, F C Zhang
  The Physics behind High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates: the “Plain Vanilla” Theory
  cond-mat/0311467
  J Phys Cond Matt 16, R755 2004
• Philip W. Anderson, W F Brinkman
  “New Zero-resistance State” in Heterojunctions: a Dynamical Effect
  cond-mat/0302129
• Philip W. Anderson
  In Praise of Unstable Fixed Points: The Way Things Actually Work
  cond-mat/0201431 journal?
• Philip W. Anderson
  Superconductivity In High Tc Cuprates: The Cause is no Longer a Mystery
  cond-mat/0201439
  Physica Scripta, 2002
• Philip W. Anderson
  Physics of the Pseudogap State of High Tc Cuprates, or, RVB Meets Umklapp
  Cond-mat/0108522
  Journal?
• Philip W A RVB Revisited cond-mat/0104332
  Given in 1999, published in...