Materials / States of matter

This graduate-level textbook is the first pedagogical synthesis of the field of topological insulators and superconductors, one of the most exciting areas of research in condensed matter physics.

A definitive new investigation of the science of snowflakes by the world's leading expertA snowflake's sophisticated symmetry emerges when crystalline ice grows from water vapor within the winter clouds.

This book presents an authoritative and in-depth treatment of potential energy landscape theory, a powerful analytical approach to describing the atomic and molecular interactions in condensed-matter phenomena.

This book provides an introduction to optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, a relatively new method of studying materials based on using ultrashort light pulses to perform spectroscopy.

The first two chapters of this book are an update and outgrowth of the monograph Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Polyatomic Gases published by OUP in 1990, and a response to considerable improvements in the experimental determination of the transport properties of dilute gases that have taken place during the past 30 years.

Knowledge of the dynamics of many-electron systems is of fundamental importance to all disciplines of condensed matter physics.

Heavy electrons are found among a number of lanthanide and actinide compounds, and are characterized by a large effective mass which becomes comparable to the mass of a muon.

Transition metal oxides form a series of compounds with a uniquely wide range of electronic properties.

The book develops the dynamical theory of scattering from random media from first principles.

After the first demonstration of Bose Einstein condensation in the solid state in 2006 and the establishment of exciton polariton condensates in the wider scientific community, an intense interest has been attracted by this phenomenon at both theoretical and experimental level.

This second edition of the textbook Introduction to Tensor Network Methods contains more advanced and technical parts as new topics related to tensor network algorithms that have been developed in the last few years.

Diffuse X-ray scattering is a rich source of local structural information over and above that obtained by conventional crystal structure determination.

This book presents in a pedagogical yet complete way correlated systems in one dimension.

This book describes the basic concepts of various physical phenomena in semiconductors and their modulated structures under high magnetic fields.

This second edition of the textbook Introduction to Tensor Network Methods contains more advanced and technical parts as new topics related to tensor network algorithms that have been developed in the last few years.

Graphene, the first known example of a two-dimensional material, represents one of the most significant areas of contemporary research and serves as the foundation for emerging nanoelectronic applications.

High-energy-density (HED) science concerns the physics and chemistry of matter under extreme conditions, where pressure ranges from millions up to trillions of atmospheres.

Graphene, the first known example of a two-dimensional material, represents one of the most significant areas of contemporary research and serves as the foundation for emerging nanoelectronic applications.

This book describes state-of-the-art theories and applications of ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).

This book-the first of two companion volumes, together with a third dedicated entirely to exercises-is devoted to introducing the standard techniques of statistical mechanics; presenting a practical, operative, and attentive approach to the recurring structures that link different areas of statistical physics.

This book highlights how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the design, analysis, and application of polymers in modern science and industry.

This book highlights how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the design, analysis, and application of polymers in modern science and industry.

This book introduces the design process using HFSS to realize practical antennas.

This book introduces the design process using HFSS to realize practical antennas.

This thesis describes the development of in-situ cinematographic recording techniques for investigating phase dynamics using nanoparticles (NPs) as model systems.

This thesis describes the development of in-situ cinematographic recording techniques for investigating phase dynamics using nanoparticles (NPs) as model systems.

This monograph provides an introduction to field-theoretic simulations in classical soft matter and Bose quantum fluids.

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It is known that composites have insufficient transversal strength and rigidity, and low longitudinal shear modulus, compression and shear strength.

The fact that magnetite (Fe304) was already known in the Greek era as a peculiar mineral is indicative of the long history of transition metal oxides as useful materials.

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Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) becomes a key discipline for modem technology.

From the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics, this graduate- and research-level volume treats the modeling and characterization of dissipative phenomena.

Today, more than 20 years after the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, the number of publications in this field, at more than one paper per day, is still increasing.

Nanocrystalline materials is the name given to three-dimensional ultrafine, polycrystalline microstructures.

Recent developments in electronic structure theory have led to a new understanding of magnetic materials at the microscopic level.

The physics of vortices in classical fluids has been a highly important subject for many years, both in fundamental science and in engineering applications.

Iron played an important role in the development of the industrial society and has not lost any of its significance since today.

The alkali halide crystals have always been at the centre stage of solid-state physics.

Speckle photography is an advanced experimental technique used for quantitatve determination of density, velocity and temperature fields in gas, liquid, and plasma flows.

Electron EM reviews the theoretical and experimental work of the last 30 years on continuous electron emission in energetic ion-atom collisions.

First-generation semiconductors could not be properly termed "e;doped- they were simply very impure.

The rapid growth of the subject since the first edition ten years ago has made it necessary to rewrite the greater part of the book.

For a brief period during the latter part of World War II, Nevill F.

One of the key problems of failure-free operation of machinery is prevention of corrosion.

This fourth edition of selecta of my work on the stability of matter contains recent work on two topics that continue to fascinate me: Quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the Bose gas.

Highly dispersed nanoscale particles in polymer matrices are currently attracting great interest in many fields of chemistry, physics, and materials science.