Low temperature physics

Electron tunnelling spectroscopy is a research tool which has strongly advanced understanding of superconductivity.

This book draws together all the basic principles of vortex dynamics in neutral superfluids in one comprehensive volume.

This book serves as an introduction to cryocooler technology and describes the principle applications of cryocoolers across a broad range of fields.

Fundamental Tests of Physics with Optically Trapped Microspheres details experiments on studying the Brownian motion of an optically trapped microsphere with ultrahigh resolution and the cooling of its motion towards the quantum ground state.

This book presents the basics of superconductivity and applications of superconducting magnets.

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics.

The revised second edition of this practical book reviews the fundamentals of cryogenic liquid behaviour in small and large scale storage systems.

This book is a thoroughly modern and highly pedagogical graduate-level introduction to quantum optics, a subject which has witnessed stunning developments in recent years and has come to occupy a central role in the 'second quantum revolution'.

In recent years, there has been much synergy between the exciting areas of quantum information science and ultracold atoms.

Recent discoveries of new materials and improvements in calorimetric techniques have given new impetus to the subject of specific heat.

This thesis presents the discovery of a surprising phase transition between a topological and a broken symmetry phase.

The nature of dark matter remains one of the preeminent mysteries in physics and cosmology.

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics.

This thesis presents the first ever measurement of the noise emitted by magnetic monopoles and the development of an exquisitely sensitive magnetic-field-noise spectrometer based on a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) that enabled it.

This thesis demonstrates that an ultralow temperature refrigeration technique called "e;demagnetisation refrigeration"e; can be miniaturised and incorporated onto millimeter-sized chips to cool nanoelectronic circuits, devices and materials.

This book offers a practical introduction to helium refrigeration engineering, taking a logical and structured approach to the design, building, commissioning, operation and maintenance of refrigeration systems.

Volume 2 of Novel Superfluids continues the presentation of recent results on superfluids, including novel metallic systems, superfluid liquids, and atomic/molecular gases of bosons and fermions, particularly when trapped in optical lattices.

The field of superconductivity has tremendous potential for growth and further development in industrial applications.

This book offers a practical introduction to helium refrigeration engineering, taking a logical and structured approach to the design, building, commissioning, operation and maintenance of refrigeration systems.

This book clearly explains the processes of making ultracondensed matter using dynamic compression, and provides an overview of research in this field.

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schrodinger's cat.

The relaxation of isolated quantum many-body systems is a major unsolved problem of modern physics, which is connected to many fundamental questions.

The revised second edition of this practical book reviews the fundamentals of cryogenic liquid behaviour in small and large scale storage systems.

This book draws together all the basic principles of vortex dynamics in neutral superfluids in one comprehensive volume.

This book clearly explains the processes of making ultracondensed matter using dynamic compression, and provides an overview of research in this field.

This book reports on the latest developments in the field of Superfluidity.

This thesis demonstrates that an ultralow temperature refrigeration technique called "e;demagnetisation refrigeration"e; can be miniaturised and incorporated onto millimeter-sized chips to cool nanoelectronic circuits, devices and materials.

The work described in this book originates from a major effort to develop a fundamental theory of the glass and the jamming transitions.

Advancing the experimental study of superfluids relies on increasingly sophisticated techniques.

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.

This book provides the reader with a detailed theoretical treatment of the key mechanisms of superconductivity, up to the current state of the art (phonons, magnons, plasmons).

In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods.

This book presents a highly integrated, step-by-step approach to the design and construction of low-temperature measurement apparatus.

At very low temperatures, a metal passes into the superconducting state.

"e;Since 1954 Advances in Cryogenic Engineering has been the archival publication of papers presented at the biennial CEC/ICMC conferences.

The primary focus of this thesis is to theoretically describe nanokelvin experiments in cold atomic gases, which offer the potential to revolutionize our understanding of strongly correlated many-body systems.

This is a high-level book on cold and ultracold collisions in physics.

This Volume 5 in a continuing series represents the compilation of papers presented at the International Symposium on Analytical Calorimetry as part of the 185th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Seattle, Washington, March 20-25th.

This thesis presents the discovery of a surprising phase transition between a topological and a broken symmetry phase.

Electron tunnelling spectroscopy is a research tool which has strongly advanced understanding of superconductivity.

Twenty five years have elapsed since the original publication of Helium Cryogenics.

The Sixth International Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC) was held on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge in col- laboration with the Cryogenic Engineering Conference (CEC) on August 12-16, 1985.

The 1985 joint Cryogenic Engineering/International Cryogenic Materi- als Conference was held on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The text takes an innovative approach to theoretical physics.

Stuart Wolf This book originated as a series of lectures that were given as part of a Summer School on Spintronics in the end of August, 1998 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Being a Scientist is a comprehensive introduction to the many aspects of scientific life beyond the classroom and laboratory.

This book introduces readers to the characteristic features of electromagnetic phenomena in superconductivity.

The advent of laser cooling of atoms led to the discovery of ultra-cold matter, with temperatures below liquid Helium, which displays a variety of new physical phenomena.

Cryogenics, a term commonly used to refer to very low temperatures, had its beginning in the latter half of the 19th century.