Aims and Scope of the Book This textbook was written for advanced un- dergraduate students and beginning graduate students with backgrounds in physical science.
Every reader interested in understanding the important problems in physics and astrophysics and their historic development over the past 60 years will enjoy this book immensely.
The second edition of this "e;selecta"e; of my work on the stability of matter was sold out and this presented an opportunity to add some newer work on the quantum- mechanical many-body problem.
This Volume is based on the Lectures presented at the Meeting "e;Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium"e;, wh ich was held in Pavia, Italy, during the period 7-10 October, 1999.
A backward glance of the many new industries that emerged in the 20th century would surely recognize communications, automobile, aircraft, computer and several others that have had a global impact on world economy.
This book covers a wide range of lectures given at the Short Summer Course cel- ebrated at La Laguna University about the new trends in the modern character- ization methods: chemical, microscopies, thermal, X-ray, resonance and nuclear methos for ceramics, glasses and related materials.
Chaos: A Program Collection for the PC presents an outstanding selection of executable programs with introductory texts to chaos theory and its simulation.
Quantum Networks is focused on density matrix theory cast into a product operator representation, particularly adapted to describing networks of finite state subsystems.
The first edition of "e;The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars"e; was sold out after a time unusually short for a selecta collection and we thought it ap- propriate not just to make a reprinting but to include eight new contributionso They demonstrate that this field is still lively and keeps revealing unexpected featureso Of course, we restricted ourselves to developments in which Elliott Lieb participated and thus the heroic struggle in Thomas-Fermi theory where 7 3 5 3 the accuracy has been pushed from Z 1 to Z 1 is not includedo A rich landscape opened up after Jakob Yngvason's observation that atoms in magnetic fields also are described in suitable limits by a Thomas-Fermi-type theoryo Together with Elliott Lieb and Jan Philip Solovej it was eventually worked out that one has to distinguish 5 regionso If one takes as a dimensionless measure of the magnetic field strength B the ratio Larmor radius/Bohr radius one can compare it with N "e;' Z and for each of the domains 4 3 (i) B N 1 , 4 3 (ii) B "e;' N 1 , 4 3 3 (iii) N 1 B N , 3 (iv) B "e;' N , 3 (v) B N a different version ofmagnetic Thomas-Fermi theory becomes exact in the limit N --+ ooo In two dimensions and a confining potential ("e;quantum dots"e;) the situation is somewhat simpler, one has to distinguish only (i) B N, (ii) B "e;'N,
Fundamentals of Semiconductors attempts to fill the gap between a general solid-state physics textbook and research articles by providing detailed explanations of the electronic, vibrational, transport, and optical properties of semiconductors.
Decoherence, a concept known only to few physicists when the first edition appeared in 1996, has since become firmly established experimentally and understood theoretically, as well as widely reported in the literature.
Laser Processing and Chemistry gives an overview of the fundamentals and applications of laser--matter interactions, in particular with regard to laser material processing.
It has been a great pleasure for me to see this book - very often several copies - in almost every low-temperature laboratory I have visited during the past three years.
Quantum Networks is focused on density matrix theory cast into a representation - SU(n) algebra - particularly adapted to describing networks of quasi-molecular subsystems.
A student's first course on quantum mechanics provides the foundation essential for much of his or her future work in physics, be it in atomic, elementary particle, or solid state physics.
Atom- und Quantenphysik führt sorgfältig und leicht verständlich in die Ergebnisse und Methoden der empirischen Atomphysik ein, wobei auch das Rüstzeug der Quantentheorie vermittelt und besonders die Wechselwirkung zwischen Experiment und Theorie herausgearbeitet wird.
„Quantenphysik ist bizarr und komisch, und sie widerspricht komplett unserem gesunden Menschenverstand“ oder ganz einfach „Die spinnen, die Physiker“ - so oder ähnlich ist die Wahrnehmung vieler Menschen, wenn es um die Grundtheorie der modernen Physik geht.
In diesem Buch werden die Schritte angegeben, mit denen man aus den Datenblättern der Sensor-Hersteller die Modellparameter ermitteln kann, die zu einer Schaltungssimulation benötigt werden.
This essential gives an overview of the physical principles underlying nanotechnology, which today make it possible to use microscopic effects technologically.
