Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics)

A variety of nanomaterials have excellent optoelectronic and electronic properties for novel device applications.

Derived from the successful three-volume Handbook of Microscopy, this book provides a broad survey of the physical fundamentals and principles of all modern techniques of electron microscopy.

This thesis deals with topological orders from two different perspectives: from a condensed matter point of view, where topological orders are considered as breakthrough phases of matter; and from the emerging realm of quantum computation, where topological quantum codes are considered the most appealing platform against decoherence.

This book presents an overview of the ways in which the latest experimental and theoretical nanotechnologies are serving the fields of biotechnology, medicine, and biomaterials.

This book describes the basic principles and techniques of cold plasma to synthesize nanomaterials, emphasizing the fundamentals.

This monograph offers an overview of rigorous results on fermionic topological insulators from the complex classes, namely, those without symmetries or with just a chiral symmetry.

Our current concept of matter, one of scientific research's greatest successes, represents a long journey, from questions posed during the birth of philosophy in Ancient Greece to recent advances in physics and chemistry, including Quantum Physics.

This Brief reports on heat transfer from a solid boundary in a saturated porous medium.

This book introduces the fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces and some unique droplet behaviors during condensation and melting phase change on superhydrophobic surfaces, and discusses the relationship between droplet behavior and surface wettability.

The book provides an up-to-date account of the various techniques of fabrication & functionalization of electrospun nanofibers as well as recent advancements.

In many instances of mechanical interaction between two materials, the physicalcontact affects only the outermost surface layer, with little discernible influence on the bulk of the material.

With research continuing to expand and develop, the marketplace for sensors and instrumentation remains one of the most significant for the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the economies of major developed nations.

This book introduces comprehensive fundamentals, numerical simulations and experimental methods of electrification of particulates entrained multiphase flows.

The book covers recent advances and progress in understanding both the fundamental science of lasers interactions in materials science, as well as a special emphasis on emerging applications enabled by the irradiation of materials by pulsed laser systems.

This textbook explains the fundamental processes involved in the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.

The teaching of solid state physics essentially concerns focusing on crystals and their properties.

Light-matter interaction is pervasive throughout the disciplines of optical and atomic physics, condensed matter physics, electrical engineering, and now increasingly in biology and medicine with frequency and length scales extending over many orders of magnitude.

This book offers an introduction to ten key topics in quantum information science and quantum coherent phenomena, aimed at graduate-student level.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the physics of hysteresis in magnetism and of the mathematical tools used to describe it.

Monomolecular assemblies on substrates, now termed Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films, have been studied for over half a century.

This book provides a didactic derivation of the main theories of thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals, revealing the common molecular-theoretic framework that underpins both theories.

This book presents new approaches that offer a better characterization of the interrelationship between crystalline and amorphous phases.

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to multi-agent, multi-choice repetitive games, such as the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and the Minority Game.

This book is an expanded form of the monograph, Dropwise Condensation on Inclined Textured Surfaces, Springer, 2013, published earlier by the authors, wherein a mathematical model for dropwise condensation of pure vapor over inclined textured surfaces was presented, followed by simulations and comparison with experiments.

The first edition of "e;The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars"e; was sold out after a time unusually short for a selecta collection and we thought it ap- propriate not just to make a reprinting but to include eight new contributionso They demonstrate that this field is still lively and keeps revealing unexpected featureso Of course, we restricted ourselves to developments in which Elliott Lieb participated and thus the heroic struggle in Thomas-Fermi theory where 7 3 5 3 the accuracy has been pushed from Z 1 to Z 1 is not includedo A rich landscape opened up after Jakob Yngvason's observation that atoms in magnetic fields also are described in suitable limits by a Thomas-Fermi-type theoryo Together with Elliott Lieb and Jan Philip Solovej it was eventually worked out that one has to distinguish 5 regionso If one takes as a dimensionless measure of the magnetic field strength B the ratio Larmor radius/Bohr radius one can compare it with N "e;' Z and for each of the domains 4 3 (i) B N 1 , 4 3 (ii) B "e;' N 1 , 4 3 3 (iii) N 1 B N , 3 (iv) B "e;' N , 3 (v) B N a different version ofmagnetic Thomas-Fermi theory becomes exact in the limit N --+ ooo In two dimensions and a confining potential ("e;quantum dots"e;) the situation is somewhat simpler, one has to distinguish only (i) B N, (ii) B "e;'N,

This textbook and comprehensive reference source and serves as a timely, practical introduction to the principles of nanotribology and nanomechanics.

The X-ray standing wave (XSW) technique is an X-ray interferometric method combining diffraction with a multitude of spectroscopic techniques.

This book presents fresh insights into analogue quantum simulation.

Databook of Green Solvents, Second Edition, includes data and information that is divided into five separate sections: General, Physical, Health, Environmental and Use.

In the past 10 to 15 years, the quantum leap inunderstanding of nonlinear dynamics has radically changedthe frame of reference of physicists contemplating suchsystems.

This textbook serves as a comprehensive introduction to muon spin spectroscopy (uSR), offering a detailed exploration of how polarized positive muons can be employed as local probes to investigate material properties at the microscopic level.

This book covers the new field of straintronics, using strain switched nanomagnets for extremely energy-efficient computing, information processing, communication, and signal generation.

It is widely recognized that an understanding of the optical pro- perties of matter will give a great deal of important information re- levant to the fundamental physical properties.

This work brings together quantum theory and spectroscopy to convey excitation processes to advanced students and specialists wishing to conduct research and understand the entire fi eld rather than just single aspects.

This book addresses a broad community of physicists, engineers, computer scientists and industry professionals, as well as the general public, who are aware of the unprecedented media hype surrounding the supposedly imminent new era of quantum computing.

Semiconductor Metamaterials: Part One, Volume 116 in a two-part series surveys the state-of-the-art in material platforms for optical metasurfaces.

This revised and updated edition of the well-received book by C.

This thesis presents first observations of superconductivity in one- or two-atomic-scale thin layer materials.

Versatile medium-scale synchrotron radiation facilities are now being operated, constructed, and planned at many places in Asia.

Chemical reactions and growth processes on surfaces depend on the diffusion and re-orientation of the adsorbate molecules.

Kunststoffedas Loseblattwerk aus dem Springer-Verlag verschafft Herstellern, Verarbeitern und Händlern den kompetenten Überblick über die Handelsprodukte.

The first coherent presentation of this rapidly growing field, covering methods and applications for graduate students and researchers.

Less than a decade ago, lead halide perovskite semiconductors caused a sensation: Solar cells exhibiting astonishingly high levels of efficiency.

Nowadays it is hard to find an electronic device which does not use codes: for example, we listen to music via heavily encoded audio CD's and we watch movies via encoded DVD's.

This concise book reviews methods used for gluing space-time manifolds together.

A unified overview of the dynamical properties of water and its unique and diverse role in biological and chemical processes.

This book highlights some aspects of processing, microstructure, and properties of materials in fibrous form, or from fibers, with wide applications for textile-oriented and technically oriented advanced products.

"e;The book reviews all the aspects of recent developments in research on skyrmions, from the presentation of the observation and characterization techniques to the description of physical properties and expected applications.