Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics)

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Significant changes have occurred in materials science, including increasing demands on life extensions, and the reliability and exploitability of components, materials, and structures.

This book provides a contemporary treatment of the problems related to anomalous diffusion and anomalous relaxation.

A unique and detailed discussion of both the contemporary experimental and computational manifestations of soft condensed matter systems.

This book presents an update on the state of the art in nanobiology and various nanoparticle synthesis and characterization methods.

This book gathers the lecture notes of courses given at the 2010 summer school in theoretical physics in Les Houches, France, Session XCIV.

In response to the demands of contemporary solid material analysis-greater powers of detection, speed, depth, and precision-glow devices are receiving increased attention by specialists.

Structures in Nature are ubiquitous and fascinating.

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Materials for Energy offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in materials for efficient and sustainable energy applications, including energy conversion, storage, and smart applications.

This work sheds new light on fundamental aspects of phase separation in polymer-blend thin films.

This book provides a model description for the electromagnetic response of topological nodal semimetals and summarizes recent experimental findings in these systems.

From everyday applications to the rise of automation, devices have become ubiquitous.

The motion of a particle in a random potential in two or more dimensions is chaotic, and the trajectories in deterministically chaotic systems are effectively random.

Dieses nun in dritter Auflage vorliegende Werk unterscheidet sich von bereits vorhandenen Lehrbüchern der Regelungstechnik in Didaktik, Stoffauswahl und Schwerpunkten.

Butterflies and coleoptera are the most beautifully colored insects we can find.

This textbook integrates the most advanced topics of physical-layer security, cryptography, covert/stealth communications, quantum key distribution (QKD), and cyber security to tackle complex security issues.

This volume, From High-Temperature Superconductivity to Microminiature Refrigeration, was compiled as a commemoration to Bill Little's rich scientific career over the past 40 years or more.

Critical infrastructures are targets for terrorism and deliver a valuable vector through which the proliferation of CBRN and explosive precursors can be detected.

The papers in this volume were presented at the Second International Conference on Unconventional Photoactive Solids held at the R&D Center of BP America September 9-12, 1985.

This unique book provides a fundamental introduction to all aspects of modern plasma chemistry.

For hundreds of years, models of magnetism have been pivotal in the understanding and advancement of science and technology, from the Earth's interpretation as a magnetic dipole to quantum mechanics, statistical physics, and modern nanotechnology.

Nanodroplets, the basis of complex and advanced nanostructures such as quantum rings, quantum dots and quantum dot clusters for future electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices, have attracted the interdisciplinary interest of chemists, physicists and engineers.

This book, now in its second edition, introduces readers to quantum rings as a special class of modern high-tech material structures at the nanoscale.

Branes are solitonic configurations of a string theory that are represented by extended objects in a higher-dimensional space-time.

A modern and thorough treatment of the field for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in materials science and chemistry.

Spintronics Handbook, Second Edition offers an update on the single most comprehensive survey of the two intertwined fields of spintronics and magnetism, covering the diverse array of materials and structures, including silicon, organic semiconductors, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and engineered nanostructures.

Like its predecessors, volume three of this meanwhile well-established series covers selected topics from electrochemical science and its applications.

Although gravity is the dominant force of nature at large distances (from intermediate scales to the Hubble length), it is the weakest of forces in particle physics, though it is believed to become important again at very short scales (the Planck length).

The book includes a thorough description of a wide range of physical properties of organic superconductors of reduced dimensionality.

Offering chapters written by experts in their fields, this two-volume set covers the major areas of research in theoretical chemistry.

Percolation theory describes the effects of the connectivity of microscopic or small-scale elements of a complex medium to its macroscopic or large-scale properties.

This book contains a self-consistent treatment of Besov spaces for W*-dynamical systems, based on the Arveson spectrum and Fourier multipliers.

Polymorphism - the multiplicity of structures or forms - is a term that is used in many disciplines.

A focused and accessible guide to the Ising model, a mathematical framework used to describe ferromagnetism, with exercises included.

In recent decades solid state physics has seen many dramatic new developments and has become one of the largest independent branches of physics.

Fabrication of Graphene from Camphor: Emerging Energy Applications provides a short review of recent discoveries in the field of graphene.

Quantum Computation in Solid State Systems discusses experimental implementation of quantum computing for information processing devices; in particular observations of quantum behavior in several solid state systems are presented.

This book focuses on the study of the interfacial water using molecular dynamics simulation and experimental sum frequency generation spectroscopy.

Cryogenic engineering (cryogenics) is the production, preservation, and use or application of cold.

This book contains lectures delivered at the 10th Physics Summer School on "e;Physics of Novel Materials"e; at Australian National University by internationally reputed scientists.

Oxide-based materials and structures are becoming increasingly important in a wide range of practical fields including microelectronics, photonics, spintronics, power harvesting, and energy storage in addition to having environmental applications.

This reference guide brings together a wide range of essential data on the effect of long term thermal exposure on plastics and elastomers, enabling engineers to make optimal material choices and design decisions.

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics VII provides a broad overview of recent developments.

As concerns with the efficient use of energy resources, and the minimization of environmental damage have come to the fore, there has been a renewed interest in the role that thermoelectric devices could play in generating electricity from waste heat, enabling cooling via refrigerators with no moving parts, and many other more specialized applications.

This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics.