Materials / States of matter

This volume covered all topics of current interest in High Temperature Superconductivity with emphasis on experimental and theoretical physics.

Today magnetic recording is still the leading technology for mass data storage.

This textbook presents the general point of views of the optical properties of solids and gives an overview of the landscape of optics in solid-state materials, especially focusing on optical imaging techniques.

The book explains concepts and ideas of mathematics and physics that are relevant for advanced students and researchers of condensed matter physics.

Photonics is a key technology of this century.

The book provides an overview of the author's work devoted to experimental study of hopping conductivity, which includes substantial contributions, such as solving the problem of critical indices of the metal-insulator transition in doped semiconductors, investigation of transitions from different kinds of hopping conductivity, development of the 'hopping spectroscopy' method that allows to reveal the details of the density-of-states near the Fermi level - appearance of a hard 'magnetic gap', temperature induced smearing of the soft Coulomb gap, the 'phononless' hopping and so on.

At this International Seminar, the six invited speakers presented several lectures each on current FEL research.

This Symposium aims to present and discuss recent advances on the experimental, theoretical and applications aspects of superconductivity.

This book compiles the contributions from various international experts on magnetized plasma physics, both in controlled fusion and in astrophysics, and on atmospheric science.

The meeting will provide an up-to-date, state-of-the-art exposition of results and techniques concerning theoretical and experimental studies of optical devices showing strong non-linear behaviour.

This is a combined volume of the Proceedings for the Workshop on 'Mechanisms of High Tc Superconductivity' (20 June -29 July) and the Adriatico Research Conference (26 - 29 July) on high temperature superconductivity.

The international conference held in Berlin is the 12th in the series of meetings to provide the exchange of ideas and information by cyclotron builders and users throughout the world.

This book is the fourth in the series of review papers on advanced problems of phase transitions and critical phenomena, the first three volumes appeared in 2004, 2007, and 2012.

The author of this unique volume, Lev P Gor'kov is internationally renowned for his seminal contribution in the fundamentals of the Theory of Superconductivity, Theory of Metals, the field of Quantum Statistical Physics, and more generally, Organic Metals and the like.

Recent developments in nonlinear dynamics has significantly altered our basic understanding of the foundations of classical physics.

This book covers the crucial aspects of theoretical and experimental approaches for Si-based spintronic materials.

'The overall book content is excellently coordinated to form a synchronised story, interesting to a broad scientific audience .

This collection of articles introduces the idea of a hierarchical order in chaotic systems and natural phenomena.

This book covers the techniques of computer simulations of disordered systems.

Understanding and manipulating the properties of materials naturally occurring in our world and artificially produced by modern technologies requires detailed information on their properties on the atomic scale.

As computational hardware continues to develop at a rapid pace, quantitative computations are playing an increasingly essential role in the study of biomolecular systems.

This textbook is a complete and clear introduction to the field of crystallography.

Graphene is the first example of two-dimensional materials and is the most important growth area of contemporary research.

This book was derived from a talk that the author gave at the International Conference on Advanced Nanodevices and Nanotechnology in Hawaii.

Interferometric observations need snapshots of very high time resolution of the order of (i) frame integration of about 100 Hz or (ii) photon-recording rates of several megahertz (MHz).

This book is the result of dynamic developments that have occurred in condensed matter physics after the recent discovery of a new class of electronic materials: topological insulators.

This symposium is dedicated to Prof N N Bogolubov on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

This volume contains the most important lecture notes by experts from condensed matter, particle physics and cosmology and is a MUST for young researchers and graduate students.

The topics of this Conference focus on 1) the optical, electronic, thermal, elastic, magnetic, and transport properties, 2) thin films and single crystals, 3) structural properties and new materials, 4) theoretical aspects of high temperature superconductivity.

This Conference is designed to cover the entire field of current-carrying properties of superconductors, either metallic alloys or the new high-Tc metallic oxides.

This Proceedings is dedicated to the topic of high temperature superconductors.

The research on condensed molecular solids is truly interdisciplinary, spanning the range from statistical and molecular physics to solid-state-physics, chemistry, up to materials science.

This proceedings contains 9 lectures given by active research scientists, introducing the latest developments in the field of surface physics.

This workshop on the subject of positron and positronium chemistry is the third international conference after those in Blacksburg, Virginia (1979), and in Arlington, Texas (1986).

The subject of the School is on the theory and phenomenology of 'classical' superconductivity.

This book explains the subtleties of quantum statistical mechanics in lower dimensions and their possible ramifications in quantum theory.

This book collects extended notes of invited review talks and short notes of contributions to Nanomeeting '97, the international conference held on 19-23 May 1997 in Minsk, Belarus.

This book reviews recent developments of quantum Monte Carlo methods and some remarkable applications to interacting quantum spin systems and strongly correlated electron systems.

The current technological revolution in the development of computing devices has created a demand for a textbook on the quantum theory of the electronic and optical properties of semiconductors and semiconductor devices.