Materials / States of matter

All technologies depend on the availability of suitable materials.

Many modern engineering structures are composed of brittle heterogenous, or quasibrittle, materials.

This book originates in the French classic "e;Principes de Tectonique"e; (Masson, 1983), written by professor Adolphe Nicolas, and the more recent "e;Principes de Tectonique"e; by J.

Thermal physics deals with collections of large numbers of particles - typically 10 to the 23rd power or so.

Quantum is rapidly emerging as a game-changer in technology.

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

A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip W.

Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems.

Continuum Mechanics of Solids is an introductory text for graduate students in the many branches of engineering, covering the basics of kinematics, equilibrium, and material response.

This textbook is a modern take on an old subject at the heart of materials physics.

Technological evolution and revolution are both driven by the discovery of new functionalities, new materials and the design of yet smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient components.

Neutron scattering is arguably the most powerful technique available for looking inside materials and seeing what the atoms are doing.

This text presents the two complementary aspects of thermal physics as an integrated theory of the properties of matter.

The topic of the CVIII session of the Ecole de Physique des Houches, held in July 2017, was Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics and Cosmology.

The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) was invented by Binnig and Rohrer and received a Nobel Prize of Physics in 1986.

Primarily intended for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of condensed matter science, chemical physics and material science, who plan to use the muon spin rotation, relaxation amd resonance (uSR) techniques, this book combines for the first time a detailed discussion of the physical information contained in the measured polarisation functions with real-life examples taken from the literature.

This monograph provides the first extensive treatment of magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS).

This primer describes important equations of materials and the scientists who derived them.

This book provides the reader with a detailed theoretical treatment of the key mechanisms of superconductivity, up to the current state of the art (phonons, magnons, plasmons).

Physics on Your Feet (2nd Edition) is a significantly expanded collection of physics problems covering the broad range of topics in classical and modern physics that were, or could have been, asked at oral PhD exams at University of California at Berkeley.

Nanostructured oxide materials - ultra-thin films, nanoparticles and other nanometer-scale objects - play prominent roles in many aspects of our every-day life, in nature and in technological applications, among which is the all-oxide electronics of tomorrow.

Introduced as a quantum extension of Maxwell's classical theory, quantum electrodynamics has been the first example of a Quantum Field Theory (QFT).

This book gathers the lecture notes of courses given at Session CVII of the summer school in physics, entitled "e;Current Trends in Atomic Physics"e; and held in July, 2016 in Les Houches, France.

An informal and highly accessible writing style, a simple treatment of mathematics, and clear guide to applications have made this book a classic text in electrical and electronic engineering.

Characterization enables a microscopic understanding of the fundamental properties of materials (Science) to predict their macroscopic behaviour (Engineering).

Surfactants.

This volume, 106 of the Les Houches Summer School series, brings together applications of integrability to supersymmetric gauge and string theory.

This book provides the basis for understanding the elastic properties of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA), the methods used to manipulate them (e.

Over the past several decades, aThis book deals with the characterisation of the structure, the structure determination and the study of the physical properties, especially dynamical and electronic properties of aperiodic crystals.

This book is aimed at graduate students, post docs and senior researchers with preliminary expertise in materials physics or chemistry, and with an interest in the physical and chemical properties of 4d- and 5d transition metal oxides, especially ruthenates and iridates.

This is a readable and attractively presented textbook on fluid flow in biological systems that includes flow through blood vessels, pulsatile flow, and pattern formation.

This book provides the reader with a unified understanding of the rapidly expanding field of molecular materials and devices: electronic structures and bonding, magnetic, electrical and photo-physical properties, and the mastering of electrons in molecular electronics.

Principles of Metal Refining and Recycling provides a self-contained introduction to the field of purification and recycling of metals.

Statistical physics and thermodynamics describe the behaviour of systems on the macroscopic scale.

In recent years, the physics community has experienced a revival of interest in spin effects in solid state systems.

Soft Matter science is concerned with soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams, and has emerged as a rich interdisciplinary field over the last 30 years.

Soft Matter science is concerned with soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams, and has emerged as a rich interdisciplinary field over the last 30 years.

The ideas and phenomena of the quantum world are strikingly unlike those encountered in our visual world.

Flowing matter is all around us, from daily-life vital processes (breathing, blood circulation), to industrial, environmental, biological, and medical sciences.

The ideas and phenomena of the quantum world are strikingly unlike those encountered in our visual world.

What does cotton candy, which dissolves at the touch, have in common with Kevlar, used for bullet-proof vests?

What does cotton candy, which dissolves at the touch, have in common with Kevlar, used for bullet-proof vests?

This book presents an up-to-date formalism of non-equilibrium Green's functions covering different applications ranging from solid state physics, plasma physics, cold atoms in optical lattices up to relativistic transport and heavy ion collisions.

Light-matter interaction is pervasive throughout the disciplines of optical and atomic physics, condensed matter physics, electrical engineering, and now increasingly in biology and medicine with frequency and length scales extending over many orders of magnitude.

This book provides an introduction to the methods of coupled quantum statistical field theory and Green's functions.

An important task of theoretical quantum physics is the building of idealized mathematical models to describe the properties of quantum matter.

Why does a piano sound like a piano?

Many of the distinctive and useful phenomena of soft matter come from its interaction with interfaces.

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications, including solar cells and light emitting devices.

This book sets out the fundamental quantum processes that are important in the physics and technology of semiconductors in a relatively informal style that graduate students will find very attractive.