Low temperature physics

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

Quantum Brownian motion represents a paradigmatic model of open quantum system, namely a system inextricably coupled to the surrounding environment.

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

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Design, Materials, Cryogenics and Constructions (ICDMC 2019).

This book deals with a new class of magnetic materials, spin ice.

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'.

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

This book covers the flux pinning mechanisms and properties and the electromagnetic phenomena caused by the flux pinning common for metallic, high-Tc and MgB2 superconductors.

Cold atomic gases trapped and manipulated on atom chips allow the realization of seminal one-dimensional (1d) quantum many-body problems in an isolated and well controlled environment.

This thesis represents a decisive breakthrough in our understanding of the physics of universal quantum-mechanical three-body systems.

This thesis presents results crucial to the emerging field of indirect excitons.

This update to a classic reference text provides practising engineers and scientists with accurate thermophysical property data for cryogenic fluids.

This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937).

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 explores several fundamental topics in mesoscopic circuitries that incorporate few electronic conduction channels.

This book focuses on nanoscale electronic phase separation in a wide class of different materials, especially in strongly correlated electron systems.

This book highlights the power and elegance of algebraic methods of solving problems in quantum mechanics.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermodynamics.

This short but revealing biography tells the story of Kurt Mendelssohn FRS, one of the founding figures in the field of cryogenics, from his beginnings in Berlin through his move to Oxford in the 1930s, and his groundbreaking work in low temperature and solid state physics.

The enlarged new edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic processes in plasmas and demonstrates that the same fundamental concepts describe cold gas-discharge plasmas, space plasmas, and hot fusion plasmas.

This book offers a compact tutorial on basic concepts and tools in quantum many-body physics, and focuses on the correlation effects produced by mutual interactions.

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

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Design, Materials, Cryogenics and Constructions (ICDMC 2019).

This book is intended to provide a clear and unified introduction to the physics of matter at low temperatures, and to do so at a level accessible to researchers new to the field and to graduate and senior undergraduate students.

A broad introduction to high Tc superconductors, their parent compounds and related novel materials, covering both fundamental questions of modern solid state physics (such as correlation effects, fluctuations, unconventional symmetry of superconducting order parameter) and applied problems related to short coherence length, grain boundaries and thin films.

In this thesis, ultimate sensitive measurement forweak force imposed on a suspended mirror is performed with the help of a laserand an optical cavity for the development of gravitational-wave detectors.

In this thesis, the pseudogap and the precursor superconducting state, which are of great importance in clarifying the superconductivity mechanism in high-temperature cuprate superconductors, are investigated with a c-axis optical study in YBa2(Cu1-xZnx)3Oy.

This book offers a compact tutorial on basic concepts and tools in quantum many-body physics, and focuses on the correlation effects produced by mutual interactions.

This book presents an overview of material-specific factors that influence Tc and give rise to diverse Tc values for copper oxides and iron-based high- Tc superconductors on the basis of more than 25 years of experimental data, to most of which the author has made important contributions.

In this thesis, the author investigates hidden-order phase transition at T0 = 17.

Dieses Werk betrachtet die Entwicklungen der Physik der Wärme, speziell der Tieftemperaturphysik, an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

This corrected and updated second edition of "e;Scattering Theory"e; presents a concise and modern coverage of the subject.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Dieses Werk betrachtet die Entwicklungen der Physik der Wärme, speziell der Tieftemperaturphysik, an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

This book is about the work of 10 great scientists; who they were and are, their personal background and how they achieved their outstanding results and took their prominent place in science history.

Kalia and Fu's novel monograph covers cryogenic treatment, properties and applications of cryo-treated polymer materials.

Arising from a workshop, this book surveys the physics of ultracold atoms and molecules taking into consideration the latest research on ultracold phenomena, such as Bose Einstein condensation and quantum computing.

This thesis describes significant advances in experimental capabilities using ultracold polar molecules.

This thesis describes significant advances in experimental capabilities using ultracold polar molecules.

This thesis explores several fundamental topics in mesoscopic circuitries that incorporate few electronic conduction channels.

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

This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937).

This thesis presents results crucial to the emerging field of indirect excitons.

This thesis unites the fields of optical atomic clocks and ultracold molecular science, laying the foundation for optical molecular measurements of unprecedented precision.

This book highlights the power and elegance of algebraic methods of solving problems in quantum mechanics.

The enlarged new edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic processes in plasmas and demonstrates that the same fundamental concepts describe cold gas-discharge plasmas, space plasmas, and hot fusion plasmas.

This update to a classic reference text provides practising engineers and scientists with accurate thermophysical property data for cryogenic fluids.

This thesis represents a decisive breakthrough in our understanding of the physics of universal quantum-mechanical three-body systems.

This highly interdisciplinary thesis covers a wide range of topics relating to the interface of cold atoms, quantum simulation, quantum magnetism and disorder.