Atomic and molecular physics

Over the last decade, astrophysical observations of neutron stars - both as isolated and binary sources - have paved the way for a deeper understanding of the structure and dynamics of matter beyond nuclear saturation density.

Una breve pero «dinámica» historia de la energía y del calor, una interesante manera de aprender la evolución de las ideas acerca de la temperatura, cómo entendemos el mundo que nos rodea, la interrelación entre filosofía, ciencia y política…Todo eso y mucho es Átomos, elementos, calor.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the history and development of power reactors worldwide, from their inception to the present day.

Spectroscopic techniques form the largest and most important single group of techniques used in chemistry.

This text describes a comprehensive adjoint sensitivity analysis methodology (C-ASAM), developed by the author, enabling the efficient and exact computation of arbitrarily high-order functional derivatives of model responses to model parameters in large-scale systems.

This thesis proposes a novel way to catch light energy using an ultrasmall nanostructure.

This book explores novel computational strategies for simulating excess energy dissipation alongside transient structural changes in photoexcited molecules, and accompanying solvent rearrangements.

This book provides a detailed description of the modern variational methods available for solving the nuclear motion Schrodinger equation to enable accurate theoretical spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules.

This book provides a detailed description of the modern variational methods available for solving the nuclear motion Schrodinger equation to enable accurate theoretical spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules.

Spectroscopic techniques form the largest and most important single group of techniques used in chemistry.

Are you afraid of a nuclear reactor accident?

This monograph shares a newly emerging point of view among researchers and students in the field of materials science.

In 1905, Albert Einstein declared speeds greater than light to be impossible.

In 1905, Albert Einstein declared speeds greater than light to be impossible.

This book provides advanced students and postdocs, as well as current practitioners of any field of nuclear physics involving fission an understanding of the nuclear fission process.

The nuclear shell model has had much success when describing nuclear structure.

This book offers a concise and coherent introduction to accelerator physics and technology at the fundamental level but still in connection to advanced applications ranging from high-energy colliders to most advanced light sources, i.

This book reviews the critical scope of nuclear materials, which play an essential role in decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

This book introduces you to the physics of cosmic rays, charged particles which reach us from known - and maybe unknown - sources in the cosmos.

This book introduces you to the physics of cosmic rays, charged particles which reach us from known - and maybe unknown - sources in the cosmos.

During the last two decades the experimental investigation of atomic coherence phenomena has made rapid progress.

This book is about several questions regarding how to describe the quantization of the current density in an antenna and about the nature of the quantum electromagnetic field produced by such a quantum current density.

This book is about several questions regarding how to describe the quantization of the current density in an antenna and about the nature of the quantum electromagnetic field produced by such a quantum current density.

This book gives a comprehensive account of modern x-ray science, based on the use of synchrotron radiation and x-ray-free electron lasers (XFELs).

Quantum mechanics - big words for little kids.

This book presents an overview of the different few-body techniques developed in nuclear physics and their applications to explore the structural properties of neutron-rich unstable nuclei, the so-called halo nuclei.

This book discusses the effect of the excitation of rotational, vibrational, and electronic degrees of freedom on the basic electrical properties of molecules and, as a consequence, on molecular optical and transport properties together with reactivity.

These proceedings gather invited and contributed talks presented at the XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in December 2014.

This book presents physical units and widely used physical formulas, which are given together with conversion factors in various units.

This monograph presents an intuitive theory of trial wave functions for strongly interacting fermions in fractional quantum Hall states.

This book discusses the physics of conductive channel development in space, air and vacuums and summarizes the attempts to create super-long conductive channels to study the upper atmosphere and to complete specific tasks related to energy transmission from the space to earth with high-voltage high repetition rate electrical sources.

This second volume of "e;Progress in Photon Science - Recent Advances"e; presents the latest achievements made by world-leading researchers in Russia and Japan.

This comprehensive book on Nanoclusters comprises sixteen authoritative chapters written by leading researchers in the field.

This book systematically provides an overview of the use of a wide range of spectroscopic methods (Mid- and Near-Infrared, Infrared Emission, Raman, Solid-State Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, X-ray Photoelectron, Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, X-ray Absorption Near Edge, Electron Spin and Mossbauer spectroscopy) to investigate kaolin minerals (kaolinite, dickite, nacrite and halloysite) and their modifications (intercalation compounds, nanocomposites and other modifications).

The story of superheavy elements  - those at the very end of the periodic table  - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists.

This book offers an introduction to statistical mechanics, special relativity, and quantum physics.

This book addresses the needs of growing community of graduate students and researchers new to the area, for a survey that covers a wide range of pertinent topics, summarizes the current status of the field, and provides the necessary pedagogical materials for newcomers.

Dieses Buch zur Experimentalphysik ist der vierte Band der lange erwarteten Ausarbeitung der überaus beliebten Vorlesungen von Joachim Heintze.

This volume continues the tradition of the Advances series.

The research in this book represents the culmination of a drive to build the first discharge gas laser unencumbered by the effects of diffraction.

In the last few years, numerical simulations of QCD on the lattice have reached a new level of accuracy.

This book is a course-tested primer on the thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter - a profound and challenging area of both theoretical and experimental modern physics.

Though thousands of articles and books have been published on various aspects of the Manhattan Project, this book is the first comprehensive single-volume history prepared by a specialist for curious readers without a scientific background.