Materials / States of matter

Spin glasses exhibit random magnetic ordering as a result of competing interactions such as exchange or anisotropy.

The works of the 1991 Nobel prize winner in Physics, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, have transformed condensed matter physics.

This is a monograph/text devoted to a detailed treatment of the optical, electro-optical and nonlinear optical properties of all the mesophases of liquid crystals and related processes, phenomena and application principles.

This volume is a collection of lectures and selected papers by Giorgio Parisi on the subjects of Field Theory (perturbative expansions, nonperturbative phenomena and phase transitions), Disordered Systems (mainly spin glasses) and Computer Simulations (lattice gauge theories).

This book differs from its predecessor, Lieb & Mattis Mathematical Physics in One Dimension, in a number of important ways.

In this book, some of the principal investigators of the phenomena have reviewed their successes.

This review volume is based primarily on the balance equation approach developed since 1984.

This book is a compilation of the review papers, expositions and some of the technical works of Leo Kadanoff, a theoretical physicist.

This book presents a new approach to analyze quantum mechanical tunnelling of particles across potential barriers.

The achievement of large critical currents is critical to the applications of high-temperature superconductors.

Current understanding of different phases as well as the phase transitions between them has only been achieved following recent theoretical advances on the effects of dimensionality in statistical physics.

Low temperature processes for semiconductors have been recently under intensive development to fabricate controlled device structures with minute dimensions in order to achieve the highest device performance and new device functions as well as high integration density.

This book covers a wide range of topics on the interaction of alternating magnetic field with condensed matter, including superradiant process, proton echo, gamma resonance, scattering of light by condensed matter near critical points, electromagnetically induced phase transitions and some mathematical problems describing the phenomena mentioned.

This book summarizes the considerable progress recently achieved in the understanding of nucleon and nuclear structure by using high energy electrons as a probe.

Disordered materials offer new and unexpected insights into the structure of solids and the ways charge carriers move and interact with their environment.

This review volume consists of scientific articles representing the frontier and most advanced progress in the field of semiconductor physics and lattice dynamics.

The subject of geometry has become an important ingredient in condensed matter physics.

This is a continuation of the previous two volumes of review papers on chaotic dynamics and related topics, published in 1987 and 1988 respectively.

Since the publication of Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors I, research in the field of high temperature superconductivity has continued at a rapid pace.

This book is devoted to the development and application of the quasiparticle approach in the modern theory of solids in order to present some new results, ideas and phenomena.

The monograph presents a detailed mathematical examination of the generalised laws of diffusion in capillary porous solids as applicable to particular geometric situations of interest in the technology of drying.

These lecture notes deal with the problem of collective coordinates in many-body systems, which are treated as gauge systems in (0+1) dimensions.

This book presents the basic physics of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals in a simple and transparent way.

Several different models have recently been proposed to explain High Temperature Superconductivity.

This book is a review of physical properties of organic conductors and superconductors.

This book gathers a collection of reprints on the Hubbard Model.

This book contains an interdisciplinary selection of timely articles which cover a wide range of superconducting technologies ranging from high tech medicine (10-12 Gauss) to multipurpose sensors, microwaves, radio engineering, magnet technology for accelerators, magnetic energy storage, and power transmission on the 109 watt scale.

The interest in membranes and higher dimensional extended geometrical objects was inspired by the great successes of the string and superstring, first in 1968-73 as a theory of hadrons and then since 1984 as a "e;theory of everything"e; - a unified theory of all interactions, including quantum gravity.

This review volume takes an indepth look at the current research done in this important area of solid state science.

This review volume contains the most up-to-date articles on the chemical aspects of high temperature oxide superconductors.

Based on a scattering theoretic approach which effectively constitutes an extension of the Dyson or Lippman-Schwinger theories, Green functions constitute the backbone of a matching analysis.

This book gives a concise description of the phenomenon of plasma relaxation from the point of view of resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory.

Recently there have been major achievements in the study of semiconductor interfaces and microstructures for different materials and structural systems.

The past decade has witnessed breakthroughs in the understanding of the wave localization phenomena and its implications for wave multiple scattering in inhomogeneous media.

This book treats the problem of phase transitions, emphasizing the generality and universality of the methods and models used.

This volume is an introduction to the application of techniques developed for the study of disordered systems to problems which arise in biology.

After more than a century of study, the hydrogen atom still presents challenges and opportunities to theoretical as well as to experimental physicists.

The book describes the progress made in understanding the phenomena of various hydrodynamic instabilities over the last thirty years.

This book presents the recent theoretical and experimental developments of neutron scattering by ferroelectrics.

This book deals mainly with physical device models which are developed from the carrier transport physics and device geometry considerations.

Volume 2 of Directions in Chaos consists of the contributions made to the Beijing Summer School on Chaotic Phenomena in Nonlinear Systems held in August 1987.

This volume, the first of a two-volume book, consists of a collection of comprehensive reviews and lectures written by active researchers on topics in chaotic phenomena.

This book contains the first systematic and detailed exposition of the linear theory of the stationary electron transport phenomena in semiconductors.

The recent advances in plasma spraying are discussed in this book which divides into two sections - theory and application.

Semiconductor Quantum Dots presents an overview of the background and recent developments in the rapidly growing field of ultrasmall semiconductor microcrystallites, in which the carrier confinement is sufficiently strong to allow only quantized states of the electrons and holes.