Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics)

CHOICE Highly Recommended 2021Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson's Electron to Higgs' Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the Standard Model of particle physics in the early 21st century.

Intended Audience, Approach and Presentation This text is intended for a course of about four months for undergraduate students.

Epitaxial growth lies at the heart of a wide range of industrial and technological applications.

Macromolecular Engineering: Design, Synthesis and Application of Polymers explores the role of macromolecular engineering in the development of polymer systems with engineered structures that offer the desired combination of properties for advanced applications.

This thesis presents an exact theoretical study of dynamical correlation functions in different phases of a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid.

This engaging and beautifully written book gives an authoritative but accessible account of some of the most exciting and unexpected recent developments in theoretical physics.

Since the discovery by the author and collaborators of superconductivity in the first truly layered compound, TaS2(pyridine)1/2, there have been many types of layered superconductors.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides - 'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war.

CMOS Processors and Memories addresses the-state-of-the-art in integrated circuit design in the context of emerging computing systems.

This book highlights the growing applications of THz technology and various modules used for their successful realization.

This book is an updated and modified translation of the Russian edition of 1984.

This book is concerned with the dynamic field of semiconductor microstructures and interfaces.

Quantum field theory is arguably the most far-reaching and beautiful physical theory ever constructed, with aspects more stringently tested and verified to greater precision than any other theory in physics.

This book includes proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices.

This book presents peer reviewed articles from the Conference on Vacuum Electronic Devices Applications (VEDA2024) held at Pilani in India.

This primer describes important equations of materials and the scientists who derived them.

This volume is a joint effort of the Research Materials Information Center (RMIC) of the Solid State Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Libraries and Information Systems Center at Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL) Murray Hill, N.

Molecular self-assembly has been exploited by nature for developing the higher functional macromolecular structures of both the genome and proteome.

The importance of real space imaging and spatially-resolved spectroscopy in many of the most significant problems of surface and interface behaviour is almost self evident.

"e;Phase Change Materials: Science and Applications"e; provides a unique introduction of this rapidly developing field.

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter systems.

The challenge of providing adequate power on an indefinite basis without causing long-term damage to the environment requires a versatile means of energy conversion and storage.

This book highlights some of the latest advances in nanotechnology and nanomaterials from leading researchers in Ukraine, Europe and beyond.

The goal of this book is to explore the complexity of a microscopic bit of matter that exists in a myriad of copies within our bodies, the voltage-sensitive ion channel.

Lasers, having proven useful in such diverse areas as high- resolution spectroscopy and the guiding of ferryboats, are cur- rently enjoying great popularity among materials scientists and engineers.

A sound understanding of magnetism, transport theory, spin relaxation mechanisms, and magnetization dynamics is necessary to engage in spintronics research.

Thin films science and technology plays an important role in the high-tech industries.

This volume compiles the papers presented at the conference which cover the various facets of semiconductor research with emphasis on microelectronics, VLSI and special aspects related to semiconductor applications.

Neutron Imaging and Applications offers an introduction to the basics of neutron beam production in addition to the wide scope of techniques that enhance imaging application capabilities.

This book deals with a "e;bottom-up"e; approach to building nanostructured systems, where one starts with atoms and molecules, which constitute the molecular building blocks (MBBs), and assembles them to build a nanostructured material.

This 21st Century Nanoscience Handbook will be the most comprehensive, up-to-date large reference work for the field of nanoscience.

In 1992 Acoustic Microscopy was published by Oxford University Press, in the series of Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials.

This volume of the Handbook adds five new chapters to the science of rare earths.

This volume contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute devoted to the study of dynamical correlation functions of the form (I) J~e-lwt 6ft T- is an equilibrium average.

Macroscopic cellular structures and functions are generally investigated using biological and biochemical approaches.

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is widely used across many fields of science because of the rich data it produces, and some of the most valuable data come from studies of nuclear spin relaxation in solution.

This book is devoted to the polarization (spin) physics of high energy particles and contains three parts.

The chapters in this contributed volume showcase current theoretical approaches in the modeling of ocular fluid dynamics in health and disease.

There has been a steady advance of the atomic and molecular many-body methodology over the last few years, with a concomitant development of versatile computer codes.

Advances in Heat Transfer, Volume 55, the newest release in this series, highlights advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

The growth of cosmology into a precision science represents one of the most remarkable stories of the past century.

These volumes contain the invited and contributed talks of the first general Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, which took place at the campus of the University of Antwerpen (Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen) from April 9 till 11, 1980.

The Third International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter was held at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island from August 28-31, 1979.

A new edition of the highly readable textbook applying the fundamentals of crystallography, symmetry and diffraction to a range of materials.

Since 1972 the Schools on Nonlinear Physics in Gorky have been a meeting place for Soviet scientists working in this field.

This book explores new experimental phase diagrams of non-oxide ceramics, with a particular focus on the silicon nitride, silicon carbide and aluminum nitride, as well as the ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC) systems.