Materials / States of matter

This book is the first one addressing quantum information from the viewpoint of group symmetry.

This book provides an overview of electrodeposition of nanomaterials from principles to modern concepts for advanced materials in science and technology.

This book gathers the proceedings of the plenary sessions, invited lectures, and papers presented at the International Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications (ICRTMSA-2016).

This book explains the group representation theory for quantum theory in the language of quantum theory.

The thesis presents experimental and theoretical results about the surface dynamics and the surface Dirac fermion (DF) spectral function of the strong topological insulators Bi2Te3 and Bi2Se3.

The Handbook of Materials Modeling, 2nd edition is a six-volume major reference serving a steadily growing community at the intersection of two mainstreams of global research: computational science and materials science and technology.

The Handbook of Materials Modeling, 2nd edition is a six-volume major reference serving a steadily growing community at the intersection of two mainstreams of global research: computational science and materials science and technology.

This book sheds new light on topological defects in widely differing systems, using the Velocity-Dependent One-Scale Model to better understand their evolution.

This book, provides a general introduction to the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics with the principal aim of meeting the needs of Master's students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering.

This thesis sheds new light on the fascinating properties of composite quantum systems.

This book is devoted to the emerging field of techniques for visualizing atomic-scale properties of active catalysts under actual working conditions, i.

This thesis describes pioneering research on the extension of plasmonics schemes to the regime of high-intensity lasers.

This thesis introduces a figure of merit for light trapping with photonic nanostructures and shows how different light trapping methods compare, irrespective of material, absorber thickness or type of nanostructure.

This book introduces the various aspects of the emerging field of carbon dots.

In this essay collection, leading physicists, philosophers, and historians attempt to fill the empty theoretical ground in the foundations of information and address the related question of the limits to our knowledge of the world.

This book offers the reader an overview of the basic approaches to the theoretical description of low-temperature plasmas, covering numerical methods, mathematical models and modeling techniques.

The new edition of this remarkable text offers the reader a conceptually strong introduction to quantum mechanics, but goes beyond this to present a fascinating tour of modern theoretical physics.

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

This book provides an overview of solar wind turbulence from both the theoretical and observational perspective.

This is a book about the Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics and its measurement theory.

This book focuses on the effect of plasma nitriding on the properties of steels.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art understanding of the molecular and nano-scale processes that play significant roles in ion-beam cancer therapy.

This monograph presents fundamental aspects of modern spectral and other computational methods, which are not generally taught in traditional courses.

The aim of this primer is to cover the essential theoretical information, quickly and concisely, in order to enable senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students to tackle projects in topical research areas of quantum fluids, for example, solitons, vortices and collective modes.

This book discusses the physics of the dynamics of ions in various ionically conducting materials, and applications including electrical energy generation and storage.

This book describes the physics behind the optical properties of plasmonic nanostructures focusing on chiral aspects.

This book describes new trends in the nanoscience of isotopic materials science.

This book covers the fundamentals of Helium Ion Microscopy (HIM) including the Gas Field Ion Source (GFIS), column and contrast formation.

This thesis addresses the surprising features of zero-temperature statics and dynamics of several spin glass models, including correlations between soft spins that arise spontaneously during avalanches, and the discovery of localized states that involve the presence of two-level systems.

This thesis presents a systematic discussion of experimental approaches to investigating the nonlinear interaction of ultrashort visible strong fields with dielectrics directly in the time domain.

Ring polymers are one of the last big mysteries in polymer physics, and this thesis tackles the problem of describing their behaviour when interacting in dense solutions and with complex environments and reports key findings that help shed light on these complex issues.

This thesis presents a theoretical investigation into the creation and exploitation of quantum correlations and entanglement among ultracold atoms.

This book describes in great detail the semi-solid processing of aluminum alloys.

Scheck's textbook starts with a concise introduction to classical thermodynamics, including geometrical aspects.

This reference work compiles and summarizes the available information on epoxy blends.

This book presents the physico-technical basis and current state of the technology of boronized layers.

In this book the coherent quantum transport of electrons through two-dimensional mesoscopic structures is explored in dependence of the interplay between the confining geometry and the impact of applied magnetic fields, aiming at conductance controllability.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the sol to gel transition in inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic systems, one of the most important chemical-physical transitions and the basis of the sol-gel process.

The fluidized-bed reactor is the centerpiece of industrial fluidization processes.

This thesis explores thermal transport in selected rare-earth-based intermetallic compounds to answer questions of great current interest.

This thesis presents a method for reliably and robustly producing samples of amyloid- (A) by capturing them at various stages of aggregation, as well as the results of subsequent imaging with various atomic force microscopy (AFM) methods, all of which add value to the data gathered by collecting information on the peptide's nanomechanical, elastic, thermal or spectroscopical properties.

This book offers a detailed examination of the latest work on the potential of polarized fuel to realize the vision of energy production by nuclear fusion.

This book summarizes the basic physics of graphite and newly discovered phenomena in this material.

This book is devoted to the engineering of protein-based nanostructures and nanomaterials.

This self-contained essay collection is published to commemorate half a century of Bell's theorem.

This book covers the Resistivity Recovery (RR) technique, underlying its physical principles, performance and problematic.

This outstanding thesis provides a wide-ranging overview of the growth of titanium dioxide thin films and its use in photo-electrochemicals such as water splitting.

This book presents the versatile and pivotal role of electron spin interactions in nature.

This brief is the result of the research the author has performed in recent years covering electrical fluctuations in numerous systems, including molecular electrical fluctuations, ionic fluctuations, ionic dielectric relaxation, spherical and cylindrical polyelectrolytes, ionic polarizability in polyelectrolytes, pH fluctuation in vesicles and electrical fluctuations in proteins.

This book presents the method of ion beam modification of solids in realization, theory and applications in a comprehensive way.