Materials / States of matter

This book, in the broadest sense, is an application of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to the field of magnetism.

Nanoscience is not physics, chemistry, engineering or biology.

This book is a systematic introduction to a new and exciting field of patterns in granular matter.

Modelling of heterogeneous processes, such as electrochemical reactions, extraction or ion-exchange, usually requires solving the transport problem associated to the process.

The name "e;random walk"e; for a problem of a displacement of a point in a sequence of independent random steps was coined by Karl Pearson in 1905 in a question posed to readers of "e;Nature"e;.

Computational complexity is one of the most beautiful fields of modern mathematics, and it is increasingly relevant to other sciences ranging from physics to biology.

This book is the first book dealing with structural crystallography of inorganic oxysalts in general.

The human genome of three billion letters has been sequenced.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of theories and applications in the rapidly expanding field of the crystallography of modular materials.

The first systematic experiments in neutron scattering were carried out in the late 1940s using fission reactors built for the nuclear power programme.

There is a continuing growth of interest in the computer simulation of materials at the atomic scale, using a variety of academic and commercial computer programs.

Polymorphism - the multiplicity of structures or forms - is a term that is used in many disciplines.

This book provides a systematic description of the molecular structures and bonding in simple compounds of the main group elements with particular emphasis on bond distances, bond energies and coordination geometries.

Microfluidics is a young and rapidly expanding scientific discipline, which deals with fluids and solutions in miniaturized systems, the so-called lab-on-a-chip systems.

A structure is an assembly that serves an engineering function.

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties.

This work tries to provide an elementary introduction to the notions of continuum limit and universality in statistical systems with a large number of degrees of freedom.

Tomography provides three-dimensional images of heterogeneous materials or engineering components, and offers an unprecedented insight into their internal structure.

The art of solving a structure from powder diffraction data has developed rapidly over the last ten years to the point where numerous crystal structures, both organic and inorganic, have been solved directly from powder data.

Physics has reduced fear and increased safety for society, largely by extending the power to see.

Crystal Structure Refinement is a mixture of textbook and tutorial.

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

Cosmology has undergone a revolution in recent years.

Nanomagnetism is a rapidly expanding area of research which appears to be able to provide novel applications.

The Equilibrium Theory of Inhomogeneous Polymers provides an introduction to the field-theoretic methods and computer simulation techniques that are used in the design of structured polymeric fluids.

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

This book is on inertial confinement fusion, an alternative way to produce electrical power from hydrogen fuel by using powerful lasers or particle beams.

For most of the last century, condensed matter physics has been dominated by band theory and Landau's symmetry breaking theory.

Analytical measurements at the single molecule level under ambient conditions have become almost routine in the past few years.

"e;Light is a Messenger"e; is the first biography of William Lawrence Bragg, who was only 25 when he won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics - the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize.

This book presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarising the last thirty-five years of work in the field.

Semiconductor sensors patterned at the micron scale combined with custom-designed integrated circuits have revolutionized semiconductor radiation detector systems.

This text provides a uniform and consistent approach to diversified problems encountered in the study of dynamical processes in condensed phase molecular systems.

Liquid crystals are fluids with a directionality defined.

This book provides a comprehensive and unified account of the structure and properties of crystalline binary adducts.

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter systems.

This book gives a comprehensive description of the physical properties of lyotropic liquid crystals.

The strengthening of metals by a variety of means has been of interest over much of history.

Crystals are sometimes called 'Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom'.

This book discusses the computational approach in modern statistical physics in a clear and accessible way and demonstrates its close relation to other approaches in theoretical physics.

This book provides a critical review of the equilibrium elastic properties of rubber, together with the kinetic-theory background.

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

This book gives an introduction to computational plasticity and includes the kinematics of large deformations, together with relevant continuum mechanics.

This text is aimed at professionals and students working on random processes in various areas, including physics and finance.

Quantum field theory is arguably the most far-reaching and beautiful physical theory ever constructed, with aspects more stringently tested and verified to greater precision than any other theory in physics.

Modern crystallographic methods originate from the synergy of two main research streams, the small-molecule and the macro-molecular streams.

The study of dielectric properties of biological systems and their components is important not only for fundamental scientific knowledge but also for its applications in medicine, biology, and biotechnology.

This textbook presents problems with detailed solutions showing how to apply quantum theory to modern physics.

This new fourth edition of the standard text on atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) retains previous material on the fundamentals of electron optics and aberration correction, linear imaging theory (including wave aberrations to fifth order) with partial coherence, and multiple-scattering theory.