Boasting more than three hundred illustrations, the majority in full color, The Particle Odyssey takes us on an exhilarating tour …
Collection of review articles on all aspects of dark matter and theories of gravity.
Why do the stars shine? What messages can we read in the light they send to us from the depths …
This is a concise introduction to modern astrophysics for physicists, with a focus on galaxy dynamics and the discovery of …
Now in paperback, this book provides an overview of the physics of condensed matter systems. Assuming a familiarity with the …
This book is the first of a three-volume series written by the same author that aims to deliver a comprehensive …
This textbook emphasizes a few fundamental principles and extracts from them a wealth of information. This approach also unifies an …
Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) offer wonderful examples of the radical macroscopic effects inherent in quantum physics: phase changes between different …
What is "topological" about topological quantum states? How many types of topological quantum phases are there? What is a zero-energy …
The whole thing was basically an experiment,” Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of …
Presents a new view of quantum field theory, a whole new interpretation of nonperturbative regularization and probability, and a new …
The Evolution of Matter explains how all matter in the Universe developed following the Big Bang and through subsequent stellar …
This volume follows the chemical history of matter from the Big Bang to the present.
In the processes studied in contemporary physics one encounters the most diverse conditions: temperatures ranging from absolute zero to those …
This book offers an up-to-date, compact presentation of basic topics in the physics of matter, from atoms to molecules to …
With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under …
This book, like its first edition, addresses the fundamental principles of interaction between radiation and matter and the principle of …
This textbook explains the fundamental processes involved in the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. It leads students from a …
The concept of mass is one of the most fundamental notions in physics, comparable in importance only to those of …
