Low temperature physics

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

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

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.

Most previous texts on quantum optics have been written primarily for the graduate student market at PhD level and above.

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

A number of interrelated areas of low temperature physics are brought together in this volume.

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

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.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermodynamics.

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

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

Superconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today.

Superconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today.

The 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.

This book gives a step-by-step approach to the design of a cryogenic infrastructure required for superconducting, all-electric aircraft systems which is also partially applicable to liquid hydrogen fueled subsonic and hypersonic aircraft, as well as hybrids.

This book deals with the study of superconductivity in systems with coexisting wide and narrow bands.

This thesis develops a new approach to Fermi liquids based on the mathematical formalism of coadjoint orbits, allowing Landau's Fermi liquid theory to be recast in a simple and elegant way as a field theory.

This book offers a primer on the fundamental theory of Andreev reflection, a fundamental process in the motion of a Cooper pair, which dominates low-energy electronic transport properties in superconductor junctions including differential conductance and Josephson current.

In the past decade, there has been a burst of new and fascinating physics associated to the unique properties of two-dimensional exciton polaritons, their recent demonstration of condensation under non-equilibrium conditions and all the related quantum phenomena, which have stimulated extensive research work.

This book presents a concise and modern coverage of scattering theory.

This book gathers selected papers from the 28th International Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Materials Conference 2022 (ICEC28-ICMC 2022), held virtually in Hangzhou, China on 25-29 April 2022, due to COVID-19 pandemic.

This book explores fundamental and experimental aspects of excitons in semiconductors.

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This book presents experimental studies of nonequilibrium phase transitions induced by ac and dc forces in collectively interacting systems-a superconducting vortex system with random pinning.

High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the properties of these fascinating materials.

This thesis develops a new approach to Fermi liquids based on the mathematical formalism of coadjoint orbits, allowing Landau's Fermi liquid theory to be recast in a simple and elegant way as a field theory.

This book presents experimental studies of nonequilibrium phase transitions induced by ac and dc forces in collectively interacting systems-a superconducting vortex system with random pinning.

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This book deals with the study of superconductivity in systems with coexisting wide and narrow bands.

This thesis presents major advances toward the realization of quantum control in complex molecules for applications in precision metrology.

This book gathers selected papers from the 28th International Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Materials Conference 2022 (ICEC28-ICMC 2022), held virtually in Hangzhou, China on 25-29 April 2022, due to COVID-19 pandemic.

This book offers a primer on the fundamental theory of Andreev reflection, a fundamental process in the motion of a Cooper pair, which dominates low-energy electronic transport properties in superconductor junctions including differential conductance and Josephson current.

This book gives a step-by-step approach to the design of a cryogenic infrastructure required for superconducting, all-electric aircraft systems which is also partially applicable to liquid hydrogen fueled subsonic and hypersonic aircraft, as well as hybrids.

The study of quantum fluids, stimulated by the discovery of superfluidity in liquid helium, has experienced renewed interest after the observation of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in ultra-cold atomic gases and the observation a new type of quantum fluid with specific characteristics derived from its intrinsic out-of-equilibrium nature.

This book explores fundamental and experimental aspects of excitons in semiconductors.

This thesis presents major advances toward the realization of quantum control in complex molecules for applications in precision metrology.