Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics)

Adsorption on Ordered Surfaces of Ionic Solids and ThinFilms introduces to a new and topical field of surfacescience for which rather little experience is available atpresent.

The field of non-crystalline materials has seen the emergence of many challeng- ing problems during its long history.

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics VIprovides a broad overview of recent developments in thisfield.

Phase separation has become a fascinating subject in the discussion of cuprate superconductors.

Crystal pulling is an industrial process and provides the bulk of semiconductor crystals for the semiconductor industry.

In this text experts review experimental studies thatdirectly reveal the relationship between the atomicstructure and physical behavior of high-Tc superconductors.

As the role of computer simulations began to increase in importance, we sensed a need for a "e;meeting place"e; for both experienced simulators and neophytes to discuss new techniques and results in an evironment which promotes extended discussion.

This volume in the Springer Series on Surface Sciences presents a recent account of advances in the ever-broadening field of electron-and photon-stimulated sur- face processes.

This introduction to classical theoretical physics emerged from a course for students in the third and fourth semester, which the authors have given several times at the University of Freiburg (Germany).

Dieses als Kompendium konzipierte Buch - mit Lehrbuchcharakter - vermittelt das Grundwissen über die äußere Beschaffenheit sowie die chemischen, physikochemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften textiler Faserstoffe.

Keynote and lectures from invited speakers given at the "e;Second Pacific Polymer Conference in Otsu, Japan, are collected in this book.

Our life is a highly nonlinear process.

Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivityconsiderable progress has been made in research anddevelopment of superconductive electronic devices.

"e;High-Tc Superconductivity"e; is based on a meeting held inKiev and contains contributions discussing the most recentachievements in this field.

This volume gives a broad overview of symmetry methods applied to molecular and nuclear physics, particle physics, decay processes and phase space dynamics.

Single-electron tunneling (SET) and related phenomena have recently come to be considered as "e;hot topics"e;.

Carbon has always been a unique and intriguing material from a funda- mental standpoint and, at the same time, a material with many technological uses.

High temperature superconductivity is still one of the mostdiscussed topicsin physics.

"e;Methods of the Classical Theory of Elastodynamics"e; dealsnot only with classical methods as developed in the pastdecades, but presents also very recent approaches.

Advances in the physics and chemistry of low-dimensional systems have been really magnificent in the last few decades.

These lectures deal with background and latest developments in symmetries, singularity structures (Painleve analysis) and their relation to integrability and chaos in classical and quantum nonlinear dynamical systems.

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The contribution of computer simulation studies to our understanding of the prop- erties of a wide range of condensed matter systems is now weIl established.

It is a surprising fact that so far almost no books have been published on KAM theory.

Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems (NEEDS) provides a presentation of the state of the art.

This volume contains the written versions of invited lectures presented at the 29th "e;Internationale Universitatswochen fiir Kernphysik"e; in Schladming, Aus- tria, in March 1990.

This volume contains extended abstracts of the 10 plenary lectures, 27 invited symposium lectures and ap- proximately 300 contributed papers that were presented at the 25th Congress Ampere.

In 1931 Vrey, Brickwedde, and Murphy discovered the hydrogen isotope deuterium.

1989 was by any standards an extraordinary year: the year in which the Cold War ended.

In recent years substantial progress has been made in the detection of surface phonons owing to considerable improvements in inelastic rare gas scattering tech- niques and electron energy loss spectroscopy.

In the 1950s the direct observation of dislocations became possible, stimulat- ing the interest of many research workers in the dynamics of dislocations.

This volume contains review articles written by the invited speakers at the ninth International Summer Institute in Surface Science (ISISS 1989), held at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in August of 1989.

Chemistry is the science of substances (today we would say molecules) and their transformations.

The short Heroic Age of physics that started in 1925 was one of the rare occasions when a deep consideration of the question: What does physics really say?

A lively demonstration of the great vitality and the multidisciplinary character of cluster research and of the usefulness of synthesizing its various aspects was given at this symposium.

ill the past three decades there has been enonnous progress in identifying the es- sential role that "e;nonlinearity"e; plays in physical systems.

Diese Auswahl aus dem reichhaltigen Werk Walther Gerlachs erscheint aus Anlaß seines 100.

The progress of materials science depends on the development of novel materials and the development of novel experimental techniques.

A broad overview of recent developments in computer simulation studies of condensed matter systems is provided in this book.

This volume appears at a time when the prospects for banishing the threat of nuclear annihilation are brighter than at any time since the first atomic device exploded over the desert at Alamogordo.

After many years of sterile arms control negotiations between the super powers, which did not produce a single genuine disarmament measure - and sometimes had the opposite effect of stimulating the development of new weapons to serve as bargaining chips - an agreement to abolish completely two categories of nu- clear weapons, the INF Treaty, was signed and is now being implemented.

This book deals with the theory of macroscopic systems.

Photon-Vegetation Interactions deals with the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with vegetation canopies.

th This volume contains the written versions of invited lectures presented at the 28 "e;Internationale Universitatswochen fUr Kernphysik"e; in Schladming, Austria in March 1989.

The aim of this book is to give a simple, short, and elementary introduction to the second quantized formalism as applied to a many-electron system.