Materials / States of matter

This book presents the theory of gas discharge plasmas in a didactical way.

This second edition of a successful and highly-accessed monograph has been extended by more than 100 pages.

This book explains modern and interesting physics in heavy-fermion (HF) compounds to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics.

This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics.

This book continues the biannual series of conference proceedings, which has become a classical reference resource in traffic and granular research alike, and addresses the latest developments at the intersection of physics, engineering and computational science.

This book provides an updated review on the development of scanning probe microscopy and related techniques, and the availability of computational techniques not even imaginable a few decades ago.

These lecture notes present a concise and introductory, yet as far as possible coherent, view of the main formalizations of quantum mechanics and of quantum field theories, their interrelations and their theoretical foundations.

This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin.

This brief offers a concise presentation of granular fluids from the point of view of non-equilibrium statistical physics.

This book focuses on new research fields of diamond, from its growth to applications.

Quantum correlations are not restricted to the well known entanglement investigated in Bell-type experiments.

This book proposes a radically new approach for characterizing thermophysical and mechanical properties of zeolite-based adsorbent coatings for Adsorptive Heat Transformers (AHT).

In the never-ending quest for miniaturization, optically controlled particle trapping has opened up new possibilities for handling microscopic matter non-invasively.

This is a comprehensive textbook designed forgraduate and advanced undergraduate students.

This thesis approaches impact resistance in dense suspensions from a new perspective.

Given the rapid advances in the field, this book offers an up-to-date introduction to nanomaterials and nanotechnology.

This book covers the history of lasers with nuclear pumping (Nuclear Pumped Lasers, NPLs).

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This course-tested textbook conveys the fundamentals of magnetic fields and relativistic plasma in diffuse cosmic media, with a primary focus on phenomena that have been observed at different wavelengths.

In the second half of the last century solid state physics and materials science experienced a great advance and established itself as an important and independent new field.

This book presents the Einstein Relation(ER) in two-dimensional (2-D) Heavily Doped (HD) Quantized Structures.

A quantum computer is a computer based on a computational model which uses quantum mechanics, which is a subfield of physics to study phenomena at the micro level.

Synergetics is the quantitative study of multicomponent systems that exhibit nonlinear dynamics and cooperativity.

A dense sheet of electrons accelerated to close to the speed of light can act as a tuneable mirror that can generate bright bursts of laser-like radiation in the short wavelength range simply via the reflection of a counter-propagating laser pulse.

This volume on Ultrafast Magnetism is a collection of articles presented at the international "e;Ultrafast Magnetization Conference"e; held at the Congress Center in Strasbourg, France, from October 28th to November 1st, 2013.

This thesis presents studies on the interaction of soft materials like surfactants and proteins with hard silica nanomaterials.

The last decade has witnessed the discovery of, and dramatic progress in understanding the physics of graphene and related two-dimensional materials.

Superfluidity - and closely related to it, superconductivity - are very general phenomena that can occur on vastly different energy scales.

This book describes the physics of the second-generation quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), a fundamental method of analysis for soft matter at interfaces.

Entransy in Phase-Change Systems summarizes recent developments in the area of entransy, especially on phase-change processes.

Ge and III-V compounds, semiconductors with high carrier mobilities, are candidates to replace Si as the channel in MOS devices.

This thesis presents recent developments in magnetic coupling phenomena of ferrimagnetic rare-earth transition-metal Tb-Fe alloys and coupled systems consisting of ferri-/ferromagnetic heterostructures.

Quantum information science has found great experimental success by exploiting single photons.

Matter-wave interferometry is a promising and successful way to explore truly macroscopic quantum phenomena and probe the validity of quantum theory at the borderline to the classic world.

Magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are finding their place in many modern technologies such as electronics (memory or spintronic devices) and medicine (contrast media, electromagnetic thermal therapy) to name just a few examples.

The thesis covers a broad range of electronic, optical and opto-electronic devices and various predicted physical effects.

This thesis addresses the intriguing topic of the quantum tunnelling of many-body systems such as Bose-Einstein condensates.

After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation.

This thesis presents the results of resonant and non-resonant x-ray scattering experiments demonstrating the control of collective ordering phenomena in epitaxial nickel-oxide and copper-oxide based superlattices.

This text presents a self-contained treatment of the physics of many-body systems from the point of view of condensed matter.

This Brief describes the influence of the different organic chelating agents on the topography, physical properties and phases of SPPS-deposited spinel ferrite splats.

The thesis represents the development of an entirely new experimental platform for generating and studying converging radiative shock waves.

This set of lectures provides an introduction to the structure, thermodynamics and dynamics of liquids, binary solutions and polymers at a level that will enable graduate students and non-specialist researchers to understand more specialized literature and to possibly start their own work in this field.

This thesis offers novel insights into the time-dependent structural evolution of polymers under deformation.

This book presents some of the latest achievements in nanotechnology and nanomaterials from leading researchers in Ukraine, Europe, and beyond.

Over the course of the last century it has become clear that both elementary particle physics and relativity theories are based on the notion of symmetries.

This book describes the latest progress in the application of nanotechnology for water treatment and purification.

This thesis presents neutron scattering data that contribute to the understanding of four distinct areas of condensed matter physics, including iso-compositional liquid-liquid phase transitions and the glass formation in rare earth doped BaTi2O5.

When close to a continuous phase transition, many physical systems can usefully be mapped to ensembles of fluctuating loops, which might represent for example polymer rings, or line defects in a lattice magnet, or worldlines of quantum particles.

Magnetic impurities in a non-magnetic host metal have been actively explored in condensed matter physics in recent last decades.