Materials / States of matter

The following topics were covered: the study of renormalization group flows between field theories using the methods of quantum integrability, S-matrix theory and the thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz; impurity problems approached both from the point of view of conformal field theory and quantum integrability.

The conference promotes the theoretical and methodological development of crystallographic investigations of aperiodic crystals including modulated structures, polytypes, incommensurate misfit or composite crystals and quasi crystals.

This volume is a review on the recent progresses done in the understanding of the physics of the superconducting arrays.

The proceedings provide a topical survey of the static and dynamical magnetic properties of condensed matter studied by neutron scattering which has been the key technique in this field for a long time.

The structure of matter is intimately related to the fundamental role played by many-fermion systems.

This important book contains the invited papers (plenary and review lectures, progress and special reports) presented at XX.

This volume discusses the aspects of the physics of fusion-relevant plasmas even the relevant aspects of basic plasma physics.

Diamond-like carbon is amorphous carbon with a high degree of sp3 bonding, and is widely used for hard coatings and field emission cathodes.

The applications of the use of cold neutrons for condensed matter research at accelerator-based spallation sources are less well-known than that of the use of cold neutrons at reactor sources.

The subject of the exact renormalization group started from pioneering work by Wegner and Houghton in the early seventies and, a decade later, by Polchinski, who formulated the Wilson renormalization group for field theory.

The ELOISATRON (ELN) Project aims at a future proton supercollider with 100-500 TeV energy per beam and 1034-1036 cm-2s-1 luminosity.

This book constitutes the proceedings of a workshop on 'Exclusive and Semi-exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer', sponsored by the Institute for Nuclear Theory (Seattle) and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Laboratory).

Dissociative recombination is a complex molecular process that occurs in any plasma cold enough to contain molecular constituents.

This volume continues the series of proceedings of summer schools on theoretical physics which aim at an adequate description of the structure of condensed matter in terms of sophisticated, advanced mathematical tools.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the tenth meeting of the International school on Condensed Matter Physics.

The Jahn-Teller effect is a consequence of the electron-phonon coupling in high symmetry systems.

This review volume provides an up-to-date review of experimental methods and theoretical approaches in the study of dynamical processes in condensed molecular systems.

This book discusses the most important aspects of the theory.

This review volume contains articles on the recent developments, new ideas, as well as controversial issues dealing with the general phenomena of hopping transport in disordered systems.

Technologies for hazardous waste destruction (including nuclear, hospital and chemical waste) based on thermal plasma processes: state of the art and perspectives.

The Luttinger Model is the only model of many-fermion physics with legitimate claims to be both exactly and completely solvable.

Hematite (a-Fe2O3), the stable oxide of iron, is a major constituent of soils, rocks and the earth's crust.

This book describes some mathematical and physical aspects of emulsion behavior, starting from the fundamental theories of diffusion, Brownian movement and sedimentation of particles in a fluid (Chapters 1, 2 and 3 respectively).

Principles and applications of SQUIDs serves as a textbook and a multi-author collection of critical reviews.

This book is a monograph on chaos in dissipative systems written for those working in the physical sciences.

The long list of "e;spin glass materials"e; and the summary of the experimental results provided in this book emphasize the common features of spin glasses despite the diversities.

The influence of random noise on the chaotic behaviour of nonlinear system is investigated.

This volume concentrates on the controversy within the scientific community over how to explain, understand and describe the photophysics/photochemistry of this class of materials.

The articles in this book review recent developments in the microscopic theory of optical and electronic semiconductor properties.

This review volume deals with recent advances in topics of importance to scientists and engineers involved in research and device development utilizing magnetic oxides and multilayers.

Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) materials are of interest both for their potential in display technology and the fascinating science found in liquid crystals confined to small cavities.

This monograph deals with the controlled/non-controlled nonlinear systems of differential equations.

This volume contains two chapters of direct interest for applications: The magnetic vortex states and transformations and the effects of c-axis coupling on the transport properties.

This volume covers up-to-date ideas associated with the studies of high Tc superconductivity.

This book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students and other researchers who possess an introductory background in materials physics and/or chemistry, and an interest in the physical and chemical properties of novel materials, especially transition metal oxides.

This book gives a rather exhaustive list of isotropy subgroups of the 230 crystallographic space groups.

This book discusses the unique properties of superfluid phases of 3He, the condensed matter with the outmost broken symmetry, which combine in a surprising way the properties of ordered magnets, liquid crystals and superfluids.

This collection of articles provides authoritative and up-to-date reviews on the Hubbard Model.

This atlas is the first one in the field of vibrational spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules.

This book presents a new approach to quantum mechanical tunnelling and its applications to various fields of physics.

This volume collects several in-depth articles giving lucid discussions on new developments in statistical and condensed matter physics.

The X-ray standing wave (XSW) technique is an X-ray interferometric method combining diffraction with a multitude of spectroscopic techniques.