Materials / States of matter

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.

Polyacetylence, (CH)x is the simplest conjugated polymer.

This book provides ideas on what neutron scattering could look like in the next millennium.

Experiments since 1911 prove that the distance between nuclear particles constituting atomic bodies is a hundred thousand times larger than the diameters of these particles.

In this second edition, most chapters of the first edition, which published in 2017, have been revised and recent advancement of electron microscopy such as differential phase contrast (DPC) STEM, sparse-coding image processing and quantum electron microscopy have been supplemented with further details.

This book is about spin systems as models for magnetic materials, especially antiferromagnetic lattices.

The passage of a system from one minimum energy state to another via a potential energy barrier provides a model for the microscopic description of a wide range of physical, chemical and biological phenomena.

Most studies of solids at high temperatures have concentrated on rare gases or metals.

This book deals with the statistical mechanics and dynamics of open quantum systems moving irreversibly under the influence of a dissipative environment.

This volume contains the lecture notes of the "e;Spring College on Superconductivity"e; held from 27 April to 19 June 1992 at ICTP.

Professor Freeman Dyson, a great physicist, thinker and futurist, has been very active in scientific, literary and public policy activities throughout his career.

Developments in the density functional theory and the methods of electronic structure calculations have made it possible to carry out ab-initio studies of a variety of materials efficiently and at a predictable level.

This volume contains a set of pedagogical reviews covering the most recent applications of low-dimensional quantum field theory in condensed matter physics, written by experts who have made major contributions to this rapidly developing field of research.

This proceedings volume covers new results from recent studies on impurity states, bound states in semiconductors, phonons, excitons and electron confinement in superlattices and quantum wells, magnetooptics, optical properties of solids in far infrared and millimeter wave regions, optical nonlinearity for III-V, II-VI compounds, Si, Ge, amorphous and organic semiconductors as well as optical crystals.

The contents survey the achievements and research problems connected with an adequate description of condensed matter structure, its phases and other properties in terms of appropriate mathematical tools.

Versatile medium-scale synchrotron radiation facilities are now being operated, constructed, and planned at many places in Asia.

This proceedings feature lectures and contributions identifying and exploring major new trends in contemporary materials science, in particular electronic and optoelectronic materials.

The proceedings include both invited and selected contributed papers dealing with magnetic anisotropy and magnetostrictive phenomena.

This volume contains 14 review articles on the theory and phenomenology of the creation and diagnosis of quark-gluon plasma.

The purpose of this book is to offer the high-Tc community a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review on bulk processing with the hope that the book would serve in part as an updated review for expert scientists and in part as a reference/text book on processing for young scientists/graduate students and those who wish to keep track of advances and technological trends in HTSC.

This is a collection of papers on Fragmentation Phenomena.

This review volume provides the most up-to-date and authoritative description of research on icosahedral solids, which has advanced rapidly since the discovery of these unique materials in 1984.

This collection of selected reprints presents as broad a selection as possible, emphasizing formal and numerical aspects of Stochastic Quantization.

The Conference Proceedings include 11 invited papers and about 200 contributed papers on various scientific and technological aspects of high-power particle beams.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the two fundamental aspects of a solid that determine its physical properties: lattice structure and atomic vibrations (phonons).

While a great effort has been made to discover new high temperature superconductors, a large-scale, parallel effort has been made to determine the fundamental properties of these fascinating new materials.

This volume will contain contributions from researchers who have been associated with Professor Leite's long career in science and science management.

This proceedings volume contains review articles on solid-state spectroscopies by leading researchers in Japan and Taiwan.

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The first part of these proceedings contains the invited lectures which aim to unify and summarize briefly the systematic knowledge and latest developments in the entire spectrum of high Tc superconductivity, including the phenomenological and microscopic theory on HTS, crystal structures and defects, the fabrication of high Tc superconductors, physical properties of HTSC, tunneling junctions and electronics of HTSC, etc.

Novel phenomena in submicron semiconductor devices and small Josephson junctions emphasize the need to understand quantum mechanical coherence and tunneling in mesoscopic and macroscopic systems.

In the past few years there has been much study of random two dimensional surfaces.

This volume gives the state-of-the-art on superconducting tunnel junctions as X-ray detectors for low energy radioastronomy.

This proceedings contains contributions dealing with the radiative properties of dense plasmas, including radiative transport, opacity, atomic processes, spectroscopy, line-shapes and hydrodynamic behavior.

The proceedings of this workshop contains 5 important papers by S A Edwards on the Edwards Model and includes discussions on recent theoretical developments in polymer physics.

These proceedings contain some selected topics in high Tc superconductivity.

This volume will focus on the theory and experiments leading to quantitative understanding of the magnetic field and temperature dependence of critical current densities in high-temperature superconductors.

This is a collection of exciting papers in the area of high energy nuclear collisions and quark gluon plasma.