This book addresses theoretical and experimental methods for exploring microstructured metamaterials, with a special focus on wave dynamics, mechanics, and …
This mathematically-oriented introduction takes the point of view that students should become familiar, at an early stage, with the physics …
This book develops the subject from the basic principles of quantum mechanics. The emphasis is on a single statement of …
Incisive, self-contained account of tensor analysis and the calculus of exterior differential forms, interaction between the concept of invariance and …
The Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks is designed for the type of one-year survey course taken by …
The authors examine the processes of interaction of coherent radiation with solids, physical relationships governing lasing in dielectric crystals and …
The work provides solid coverage in the fundamental theoretical aspects of the subject, with carefully planned cross-linking and structuring to …
This volume represents a ''status report'' emanating from presentations made during the 18th Annual Workshop on Computer Simulations Studies in …
This book develops the thesis that structure and function in a variety of condensed systems - from the atomic assemblies …
This status report features the most recent developments in the field, spanning a wide range of topical areas in the …
This book is the first of a three-volume series written by the same author that aims to deliver a comprehensive …
Innovative text offers basic understanding of the electronic structure of covalent and ionic solids, simple metals, transition metals and their …
Eagerly awaited, this second edition of a best-selling text comprehensively describes from a modern perspective the basics of x-ray physics …
From the first application of the oxide magnetite as a compass in China in ancient times, and from the early …
This handbook presents a comprehensive survey of magnetism and magnetic materials. The dramatic advances in information technology and electromagnetic engineering …
Recently, analogies between laboratory physics (e.g. quantum optics and condensed matter) and gravitational/cosmological phenomena such as black holes have attracted …
Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) offer wonderful examples of the radical macroscopic effects inherent in quantum physics: phase changes between different …
In this book, the equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of continuous phase transitions are studied in various systems, with a special …
Nonlinear time series methods have developed rapidly over a quarter of a century and have reached an advanced state of …
The aim of this book is to exploit the advantages of holographic technology, namely the high storage capacity and fast …
The volume contains the proceedings of the OTAMP 2006 (Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics) conference held at Lund University …
The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been for long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schrodinger's …
This volume contains the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence, held at Nagoya …
This new edition of the well-received introduction to solid-state physics provides a comprehensive overview of the basic theoretical and experimental …
Probably one of the most fashionable areas in the physical sciences today, Soft Condensed Matter provides an excellent introduction to …
Soft condensed matter physics relies on a fundamental understanding at the interface between physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering for a …
All living organisms consist of soft matter. For this reason alone, it is important to be able to understand and …
This work deals with the foundations of classical physics from the ''symplectic'' point of view, and of quantum mechanics from …
Soft condensed matter is a relatively new topic. Condensed matter has typically referred to more traditional liquids, which have a …
This book presents the Nobel Laureate Vitaly Ginzburg's views on the development in the field of superconductivity. It contains a …
