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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Exactly Solvable Models In Many-body Theory
Book SynopsisThe book reviews several theoretical, mostly exactly solvable, models for selected systems in condensed states of matter, including the solid, liquid, and disordered states, and for systems of few or many bodies, both with boson, fermion, or anyon statistics. Some attention is devoted to models for quantum liquids, including superconductors and superfluids. Open problems in relativistic fields and quantum gravity are also briefly reviewed.The book ranges almost comprehensively, but concisely, across several fields of theoretical physics of matter at various degrees of correlation and at different energy scales, with relevance to molecular, solid-state, and liquid-state physics, as well as to phase transitions, particularly for quantum liquids. Mostly exactly solvable models are presented, with attention also to their numerical approximation and, of course, to their relevance for experiments.
£99.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Advances In The Computational Sciences -
Book SynopsisOn August 20, 2015, a symposium at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was held in honor of Berni J. Alder's 90th birthday. Many of Berni's scientific colleagues and collaborators, former students, and post-doctoral fellows came to celebrate and honor Berni and the ground-breaking scientific impact of his many discoveries. This proceedings volume includes contributions from Berni's collaborators and covers a range of topics, including the melting transition in the 2D hard disk system, non-equilibrium fluid relaxation, the role of fluctuations in hydrodynamics, glass transitions, molecular dynamics of dense fluids, shock-wave and finite-strain equation of state relationships, and applications of quantum mechanics in pattern recognition.
£95.40
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Story Of Antimatter, The: Matter's Vanished Twin
Book Synopsis'Overall, the text is very well written in a style that is precise yet easy to understand and interesting to follow … It does not refer to scientific or other publications or suggest further reading, but is completely self-contained. This makes it highly accessible for non-experts. It is intended for ‘serious readers with some general background knowledge in physics, although no specialist knowledge is required’. And it can indeed be recommended to any reader with a scientific interest in the subject, and also as a good recreational read for experts. This is even more true due to the excellent quality of the paper and the print, and the nice format and overall making of the book.'Contemporary PhysicsEach elementary particle contained within every known substance has an almost identical twin called its antiparticle. Existing data clearly indicate that equal numbers of particles and antiparticles were initially created soon after the birth of the universe. Despite this, all objects around us, as well as all the stars in all the known galaxies, are made of particles, while antiparticles have almost completely vanished. The reasons behind this disappearance are not yet fully known. Uncovering them will allow us to not only penetrate much deeper into the structure of matter, but also to understand the secret mechanisms that determine the genesis and development of our immense universe. That is why explaining the mystery of the missing antimatter is currently considered to be one of the main tasks of particle physics.This book tells the story of all the achievements in solving the problem of the missing antiparticles including the latest developments in the field. It is written by Prof. Guennadi Borissov, an international expert in this subject. It is intended for serious readers with some general background knowledge in physics, although no specialist knowledge is required. All phenomena observed in the microworld of particles are explained in simple terms using well-known examples from ordinary life. Starting with a description and discussion of the main properties of particles and antiparticles, the book details the important stages in the research that has brought scientists closer to solving one of the greatest enigmas of nature.
£66.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Computer Simulations Of Molecules And Condensed
Book SynopsisThis book provides a relatively complete introduction to the methods used in computational condensed matter. A wide range of electronic structure theories are introduced, including traditional quantum chemistry methods, density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory, and more. Molecular dynamics simulations are also discussed, with extensions to enhanced sampling and free-energy calculation techniques including umbrella sampling, meta-dynamics, integrated tempering sampling, etc. As a further extension beyond the standard Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, some simulation techniques for the description of quantum nuclear effects are also covered, based on Feynman's path-integral representation of quantum mechanics. The book aims to help beginning graduate students to set up a framework of the concepts they should know before tackling the physical/chemical problems they will face in their research.
£85.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Phase Transitions For Beginners
Book SynopsisWritten by an experimentalist famous for his discovery of stishovite, with vast experience in phase transition studies, this book is devoted to a description of the continuous and discontinuous phase transitions. It includes chapters outlining the Van der Waals model, hard sphere and soft sphere models of melting, scaling phenomena, renormgroup approach to phase transitions, and experimental examples to illustrate various phase transitions.Unlike conventional books covering the same topic, this is meant for undergraduate students and experimentalists to understand basic concepts in the physics of phase transitions.
£42.75
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Nonadiabatic Transition: Concepts, Basic Theories
Book SynopsisNonadiabatic transition is a highly multidisciplinary concept and phenomenon, constituting a fundamental mechanism of state and phase changes in various dynamical processes of physics, chemistry and biology, such as molecular dynamics, energy relaxation, chemical reaction, and electron and proton transfer. Control of molecular processes by laser fields is also an example of time-dependent nonadiabatic transition.In this new edition, the original chapters are updated to facilitate enhanced understanding of the concept and applications. Three new chapters — comprehension of nonadiabatic chemical dynamics, control of chemical dynamics, and manifestation of molecular functions — are also added.Table of ContentsIntroduction - What is Nonadiabatic TransitionA"?; Multidisciplinarity; Historical Survey of Theoretical Studies; Background Mathematics; Basic Two-State Theory for Time-Independent Processes; Basic Two-State Theory for Time-Dependent Processes; Two-State Problems; Effects of Coupling to Phonons and Quantum Devices; Multi-Channel Problems; Multi-Dimensional Problems; Complete Reflection and Bound States in the Continuum; New Mechanism of Molecular Switching; Control of Nonadiabatic Processes by an External Field; Comprehension of Nonadiabatic Chemical Dynamics; Control of Chemical Dynamics; Manifestation of Molecular Functions; Conclusions: Future Perspectives.
£148.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Langevin Equation, The: With Applications To
Book SynopsisThis volume is the third edition of the first-ever elementary book on the Langevin equation method for the solution of problems involving the translational and rotational Brownian motion of particles and spins in a potential highlighting modern applications in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and so on. In order to improve the presentation, to accommodate all the new developments, and to appeal to the specialized interests of the various communities involved, the book has been extensively rewritten and a very large amount of new material has been added. This has been done in order to present a comprehensive overview of the subject emphasizing via a synergetic approach that seemingly unrelated physical problems involving random noise may be described using virtually identical mathematical methods in the spirit of the founders of the subject, viz., Einstein, Langevin, Smoluchowski, Kramers, etc. The book has been written in such a way that all the material should be accessible both to an advanced researcher and a beginning graduate student. It draws together, in a coherent fashion, a variety of results which have hitherto been available only in the form of scattered research papers and review articles.Table of ContentsHistorical Background and Introductory Concepts; Methods for Solving Langevin and Fokker-Planck Equations; Matrix Continued Fractions; Escape Rate Theory; Linear and Nonlinear Response Theory; Brownian Motion of a Free Particle and a Harmonic Oscillator; Rotational Brownian Motion about a Fixed Axis in a Periodic Potential; Brownian Motion in a Tilted Periodic Potential: Application to the Josephson Tunnelling Junction and Ring Lasers; Brownian Motion in a Double-Well Potential; Isotropic and Anisotropic Rotational Brownian Motion in Space in the Presence of an External Potential with Applications to Dielectric and Kerr Effect Relaxation in Fluids and Liquid Crystals; Brownian Motion of Classical Spins with Applications to Superparamagnetism; Magnetic Stochastic Resonance; Dynamic Hysteresis; Switching Field Surfaces; Inertial Langevin Equations with Applications to Orientational Relaxation in Liquids; Itinerant Oscillator Model; Anomalous Diffusion; Continuous Time Random Walks; Methods for the Solution of Fractional Fokker-Planck Equations.
£243.00
Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd Dancing with Light: Advances in Photofunctional
Book SynopsisLiquid crystal (LC) displays dominating in the present market of flat panel displays are generally based on interactions of light and LCs. Recent progress in this field indicates that integrating photochromic molecules into LC materials enables one to photomanipulate unique features such as photoinduced phase transition, photocontrolled alignment, and phototriggered molecular cooperative motion, giving birth to their novel applications beyond displays. For instance, on connecting with three-dimensionally crosslinked elastomers, LCs show photomechanical and photomobile properties, converting light energy directly into mechanical work. Combining supramolecular cooperative motion with microphase separation of well-defined block copolymers, they exhibit controllable regular nanostructures on a macroscopic scale with excellent reproducibility and mass production. This book first introduces the basic knowledge on LCs in a step-by-step manner and then deeply discusses photoresponsive LCs in low-molecular-weight compounds or small molecules, polymers or macromolecules, elastomers, and block copolymers, respectively. The engrossing photoresponsive LC materials offer an effective and convenient chance to adjust properties of advanced materials by integrating photoresponsive molecules with LC properties, which has become one of the emerging topics in the present and future LC researches. This book comprehensively compiles the nature of this type of materials and the ongoing progress in this research area and uses graphs and figures extensively to enhance understanding especially of beginners. This book would be useful for students and primary researchers in soft materials and self-organized materials in both chemistry and physics. It may also serve as a reference for experienced researchers to keep up the current research trends in photoresponsive LC materials.Table of ContentsIntroduction of LCs. Structures and Properties (Chemistry and Physics). LC Alignment. Light and LC Displays. Photomodulation of LCs (Effect of light on LCs). LMW LC Actuators. Photoresponsive LC Polymers. Photomobile of LC Elastomer (LCE). Photoactive LC Block Copolymer (LCBC). Supramolecular LCP Systems.
£103.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Modern Course In The Quantum Theory Of Solids, A
Book SynopsisThis book contains advanced subjects in solid state physics with emphasis on the theoretical exposition of various physical phenomena in solids using quantum theory, hence entitled “A modern course in the quantum theory of solids”. The use of the adjective “modern” in the title is to reflect the fact that some of the new developments in condensed matter physics have been included in the book. The new developments contained in the book are mainly in experimental methods (inelastic neutron scattering and photoemission spectroscopy), in magnetic properties of solids (the itinerant magnetism, the superexchange, the Hubbard model, and giant and colossal magnetoresistance), and in optical properties of solids (Raman scattering). Besides the new developments, the Green's function method used in many-body physics and the strong-coupling theory of superconductivity are also expounded in great detail.Table of ContentsLattice Dynamics; Determination of Phonon Dispersion Relations; Elementary Theory of Energy Bands; Determination of Electronic band Structures; Electron - Phonon Interaction; Transport Properties of Solids; Magnetic Properties of Solids; Optical Properties of Solids; Superconductivity.
£207.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd 40 Years Of Berezinskii-kosterlitz-thouless
Book SynopsisOn the 40th anniversary of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Theory (BKT), this informative volume looks back at some of the developments and achievements and varied physics applications which ensued from the beautiful BKT vortex-unbinding seminal idea.During the last four decades, BKT theory, which is undeniably one of the most important developments in condensed matter and theoretical physics of the second half of the twentieth century, has expanded widely. It has been used and extended from many different theoretical and experimental perspectives. New and unexpected features have been uncovered from the BKT theory. Since its inception, apart from applications in condensed matter physics, the theory has been actively applied in other branches of physics, such as high energy physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, statistical physics, nonlinear systems, etc. This makes the theory an indispensable topic for all who are involved in physics.An international team of experts, each of whom has left his mark on the developments of this remarkable theory and experimental applications, contribute both historical essays and more detailed current technical and experimental accounts to this volume. These articles highlight the new discoveries from the respective authors' perspectives.This unique volume celebrates the impact over four decades of the BKT theory on modern physics. In addition to the historical perspective provided by Kosterlitz and Thouless's overview, the volume provides a comprehensive description of experimental and theoretical applications and extensions of the BKT theory.Table of ContentsEarly Work on Defect Driven Phase Transitions (J Michael Kosterlitz and David J Thouless); Duality, Gauge Symmetries, Renormalization Group and the BKT Transition (Jorge V Jose); The Two-Dimensional Fully Frustrated XY Model (Stephen Teitel); Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless Transition Through the Eyes of Duality (G Ortiz, E Cobanera and Z Nussinov); The Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless Transition in Superconductors (A M Goldman); Charges and Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays (Rosario Fazio and Gert Schon); Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless Transition within the Sine - Gordon Approach: The Role of the Vortex-Core Energy (Lara Benfatto, Claudio Castellani and Thierry Giamarchi); Superinsulator - Superconductor Duality in Two Dimensions and Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless Transition (Valerii M Vinokur and Tatyana I Baturina); BKT Physics with Two-Dimensional Atomic Gases (Zoran Hadzibabic and Jean Dalibard); Vortex Physics in the Quantum Hall Bilayer (H A Fertig and Ganpathy Murthy).
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Order, Disorder And Criticality: Advanced
Book SynopsisThis book is the third volume of review papers on advanced problems of phase transitions and critical phenomena, following the success of the first two volumes in 2004 and in 2007. Broadly, the book aims to demonstrate that the phase transition theory, which experienced its ‘golden age’ during the 70s and 80s, is far from over and there is still a good deal of work to be done, both at the fundamental level and in respect of applications.This volume presents a broad spectrum of problems connected with criticality. It covers its theoretical backgrounds, analytical approaches and numerical simulations to describe criticality in specific systems (ionic fluids, diluted magnets, polymers), as well as phase transitions on complex networks and in the minority game model. As the first two volumes, this book is based on the review lectures that were given in Lviv (Ukraine) at the “Ising lectures” — a traditional annual workshop on phase transitions and critical phenomena which brings together scientists working in the field with university students and those who are interested in the subject.Table of ContentsUniversal Scaling Relations for Logarithmic-Correction Exponents (Ralph Kenna); Phase Behaviour and Criticality in Primitive Models of Ionic Fluids (Oksana Patsahan and Ihor Mrygold); Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics (Wolfhard Janke); Ising Model on Connected Complex Networks (Krzysztof Suchecki and Janusz A Holyst); Minority Game: An "Ising Model" of Econophysics (Frantisek Slanina).
£76.95
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Physicist's View Of Matter And Mind, A
Book SynopsisThis is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key areas of human understanding, namely physics and conscious complex systems, are presented in simple language. An optional technical presentation is also given in parallel where it is needed.Table of ContentsPart I. The Nature of Physical Law: A Bird's Eye View of Our Quest; An Epistemic Hunt for Scientific Truth; The Laws of Nature and the Supremacy of Symmetry; Maxwell's Magical Trinity - Electricity, Magnetism and Light; The Theory of Relativity; The Quantum World and 'Reality'; Entanglement, Measurement and Quantum Paradoxes; Many Particle Systems and the Classical Limit; Energy, Entropy and Emergent Properties; Part II. Complex Systems and Consiousness: Bio-Molecules, the Sub-Slime of Astrochemistry; The Cell as the Basic Unit of Life; Specialized Cells for Sight, Insight, and Information; Exotic, Quantum Explanations of Consciousness; Addressing the Enigmatic Questions.
£148.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Localisation 2011 - Proceedings Of The Satellite
Book SynopsisThe proceedings of Localisation 2011, a satellite conference of the 26th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT26), comprise both invited and contributed papers that discuss the latest progress on localisation phenomena. The main topics include quantum transport in disordered systems (Anderson localisation, effects of interactions on localisation, Anderson-Mott transition, mesoscopics), the superconductor-insulator transition, quantum Hall effects (fractional and integer), topological insulators, graphene, dynamical localisation, heavy fermions (Kondo effect, Kondo lattice, effects of disorder), and many body localisation (spin-glass, Coulomb glass). The volume is also dedicated to Professor Bernard Coqblin, former CNRS Directeur de Recherche and a Honorary Chairman of the AMS-APCTP Conference Localisation 2011, whose contribution to condensed matter theory will always be remembered.Table of ContentsWave Propagation and Localization via Quasi-Normal Modes and Transmission Eigenchannels (J Wang, Z Shi, M Davy and A Z Genack); Quantized Intrinsically Localized Modes: Localization Through Interaction (P S Riseborough); Aspects of Localization Across the 2D Superconductor - Insulator Transition (N Trivedi, Y L Loh, K Bouadim and M Randeria); The Spin Glass-Kondo Competition in Disordered Cerium Systems (S G Magalhaes, F Zimmer and B Coqblin); Transport via Classical Percolation at Quantum Hall Plateau Transitions (M Floser, S Florens and T Champel); Finite Size Scaling of the Chalker - Coddington Model (K Slevin and T Ohtsuki); Bulk and Edge Quasihole Tunneling Amplitudes in the Laughlin State (Z-X Hu, K H Lee and X Wan); "Rare" Fluctuation Effects in the Anderson Model of Localization (R N Bhatt and S Johri); Effect of Electron - Electron Interaction Near the Metal - Insulator Transition in Doped Semiconductors Studied within the Local Density Approximation (Y Harashima and K Slevin); Can Diffusion Model Localization in Open Media? (C-S Tian, S-K Cheung and Z-Q Zhang); Local Pseudogaps and Free Magnetic Moments at the Anderson Metal - Insulator Transition: Numerical Simulation Using Power-Law Band Random Matrices (I Varga, S Kettemann and E R Mucciolo); Finite Size Scaling of the Typical Density of States of Disordered Systems within the Kernel Polynomial Method (D Jung, G Czycholl and S Kettemann); Critical Exponent for the Quantum Spin Hall Transition in ℤ2 Network Model (K Kobayashi, T Ohtsuki and K Slevin); Disorder Induced BCS - BEC Crossover (A Khan); A Comparison of Harmonic Confinement and Disorder in inducing Localization Effects in a Superconductor (P Dey, A Khan, S Basu and B Tanatar); Quasi Two-Dimensional Nucleon Superfluidity Under Localization with Pion Condensation (T Takatsuka); Enhancement of Graphene Binding Energy by Ti 1ML Intercalation between Graphene and Metal Surfaces (T Kaneko and H Imamura); Generalization of Chiral Symmetry for Tilted Dirac Cones (T Kawarabayashi, Y Hatsugai, T Morimoto and H Aoki); Electronic States and Local Density of States Near Graphene Corner Edge (Y Shimomura, Y Takane and K Wakabayashi); Perfectly Conducting Channel and Its Robustness in Disordered Carbon Nanostructures (Y Ashitani, K-I Imura and Y Takane); Direction Dependence of Spin Relaxation in Confined Two-Dimensional Systems (P Wenk and S Kettemann); Analysis of Quantum Corrections to Conductivity and Thermopower in Graphene - Numerical and Analytical Approaches (A P Hinz, S Kettemann and E R Mucciolo); Indirect Exchange Interactions in Graphene (H Lee, E R Mucciolo, G Bouzerar and S Kettemann); Critical Exponents for Antiferromagnetic Spin Chains Obtained from Bosonisation (M Kossow, P Schupp and S Kettemann).
£86.45
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Solid State Ionics: Ionics For Sustainable World
Book SynopsisSolid state ionics is a multidisciplinary scientific and industrial field dealing with ionic transport phenomena in solids. In a couple of decades, solid state ionics has become one of the largest disciplines closely related to energy technologies, such as batteries, fuel cells, and so on.So far, a large number of scientists and engineers in Asia as well as in Europe and US are engaged in the research in solid state ionics. In the context of such a situation, the Asian Society for Solid State Ionics was founded in 1986, and a series of academic conferences has been held biennially since 1988. In 2012, the 13th conference is organized in Sendai, Japan.This book provides research papers describing the latest developments and findings in the field of solid state ionics. The selected contributions from prominent researchers in the Asian Society for Solid State Ionics, which are presented at the 13th Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics, can be found. The papers in this book are detailed and suitable to understand recent research trends in solid state ionics, and thus will be a valuable resource for physicists, chemists, and material scientists.br>
£216.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Frustrated Spin Systems (2nd Edition)
Book SynopsisThis book covers all principal aspects of currently investigated frustrated systems, from exactly solved frustrated models to real experimental frustrated systems, going through renormalization group treatment, Monte Carlo investigation of frustrated classical Ising and vector spin models, low-dimensional systems, spin ice and quantum spin glass. The reader can — within a single book — obtain a global view of the current research development in the field of frustrated systems.This new edition is updated with recent theoretical, numerical and experimental developments in the field of frustrated spin systems. The first edition of the book appeared in 2005. In this edition, more recent works until 2012 are reviewed. It contains nine chapters written by researchers who have actively contributed to the field. Many results are from recent works of the authors.The book is intended for postgraduate students as well as researchers in statistical physics, magnetism, materials science and various domains where real systems can be described with the spin language. Explicit demonstrations of formulas and full arguments leading to important results are given where it is possible to do so.Table of ContentsFrustration - Exactly Solved Frustrated Models (H T Diep & H Giacomini); Properties and Phase Transitions in Frustrated Ising Spin Systems (O Nagai et al.); Renormalization Group Approaches to Frustrated Magnets in D = 3 (B Delamotte et al.); Phase Transitions in Frustrated Vector Spin Systems: Numerical Studies (D Loison); Two-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets (G Misguich & C Lhuillier); One-Dimensional Spin Liquids (P Lecheminant); Spin Ice (S T Bramwell et al.); Experimental Studies of Frustrated Pyrochlore Antiferromagnets (B D Gaulin & J S Gardner); Recent Progress in Spin Glasses (N Kawashima & H Rieger).
£184.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Strong Light-matter Coupling: From Atoms To
Book SynopsisThe physics of strong light-matter coupling has been addressed in different scientific communities over the last three decades. Since the early eighties, atoms coupled to optical and microwave cavities have led to pioneering demonstrations of cavity quantum electrodynamics, Gedanken experiments, and building blocks for quantum information processing, for which the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2012. In the framework of semiconducting devices, strong coupling has allowed investigations into the physics of Bose gases in solid-state environments, and the latter holds promise for exploiting light-matter interaction at the single-photon level in scalable architectures. More recently, impressive developments in the so-called superconducting circuit QED have opened another fundamental playground to revisit cavity quantum electrodynamics for practical and fundamental purposes.This book aims at developing the necessary interface between these communities, by providing future researchers with a robust conceptual, theoretical and experimental basis on strong light-matter coupling, both in the classical and in the quantum regimes. In addition, the emphasis is on new forefront research topics currently developed around the physics of strong light-matter interaction in the atomic and solid-state scenarios.Table of ContentsFundamental Lectures: Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics; Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics; Strong Coupling in Semi-Conductors; Quantum Open Systems; Advanced Lectures: Strong Coupling in Plasmonic Systems; Polaritons Bose Einstein Condensates; Experimental Circuit QED; Experimental Aspects of Quantum Dots Coupled to Cavities; Quantum Polaritonics.
£85.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Order, Disorder And Criticality: Advanced
Book SynopsisThis book is the fourth in the series of review papers on advanced problems of phase transitions and critical phenomena, the first three volumes appeared in 2004, 2007, and 2012. It presents reviews in those aspects of criticality and related subjects that have currently attracted much attention due to new and essential contributions. The contents are divided into five chapters, and they include: anomalous diffusion, kinetics of pattern formation, scaling, renormalization group approaches in soft matter and socio-physics, Monte Carlo simulation of critical Casimir forces.As with the first three volumes, this book is based on the review lectures that were given in Lviv (Ukraine) at the “Ising lectures” — a traditional annual workshop on phase transitions and critical phenomena which aims to bring together scientists working in these fields with university students and those who are interested in the subject.Table of ContentsErgodicity Violation and Ageing in Anomalous Diffusion (Ralf Metzler); Microscopic Approach to the Kinetics of Pattern Formation (Helene Zapolsky); Scaling above the Upper Critical (Bertrand Berche & Ralph Kenna); Simplexity of Geometrically Frustrated Ising Antiferromagnets (Taras Yavorskii); Monte Carlo Simulation of Critical Casimir Forces (Oleg A Vasilyev); From Real Space Renormalization Group to the Making of Public Opinion: An Approach from Sociophysics (Serge Galam);
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Is Hopping A Science?: Selected Topics Of Hopping
Book SynopsisThe book provides an overview of the author's work devoted to experimental study of hopping conductivity, which includes substantial contributions, such as solving the problem of critical indices of the metal-insulator transition in doped semiconductors, investigation of transitions from different kinds of hopping conductivity, development of the 'hopping spectroscopy' method that allows to reveal the details of the density-of-states near the Fermi level — appearance of a hard 'magnetic gap', temperature induced smearing of the soft Coulomb gap, the 'phononless' hopping and so on. A separate chapter is devoted to the hopping photoconductivity and inter-impurity radiative recombination of non-equilibrium carriers. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in physics, researchers in semiconductor electronics and even for the non-experts who wish to have a notion about hopping mechanism of transport. The explanations in the book are simple and detailed enough to capture the interest of the curious reader.Table of ContentsCritical Indices of the Metal-Insulator Transition; Different Types of Hopping Conductivity; "Hopping Spectroscopy"; Spin-Dependent and "Phononless" Hopping Conductivity; 1/f Noise; Application of the Hopping Conduction; Inter-Impurity Radiative Recombination and Hopping Photoconductivity;
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Quantum Criticality In Condensed Matter:
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises 8 articles written by lecturers of 50th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics and their collaborators. The contributing lecturers are outstanding researchers, and experts in various fields of physics, in particular in condensed matter, quantum phase transitions and quantum critical phenomena. The articles reflect the contents of the lectures given for school participants and cover various aspects of quantum phase transitions and quantum critical phenomena, from experimental to mathematical ones. For those wishing to get acquainted with the subject, extensive lists of references are provided in the articles.Table of ContentsThe Enigma of the Pseudogap Phase of the Cuprate Superconductors (Debanjan Chowdhury and Subir Sachdev); Resonant Spin Excitations in Unconventional Heavy Fermion Superconductors and Kondo Lattice Comppounds (Peter Thalmeier and Alireza Akbari); Quantum Critical Heavy Fermion Metal Ybrh2si2 (Gertrud Zwicknagl); Universality and Convergence of Energy Scales at Quantum Critical Points in Local and Lattice Models (A C Hewson, D J G Crow and Y Nishikawa); Unparticles in Strongly Correlated Electron Matter (Philip W Phillips); Fidelity Approach to Quantum Phase Transitions in Quantum Ising Model (Bogdan Damski); Dynamics of Quantum Phase Transitions: Quantum Kibble-Zurek Mechanism (Jacek Dziarmaga); Theory of Temporal Fluctuations in Isolated Quantum Systems (L Campos Venuti);
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Symmetry, Spin Dynamics And The Properties Of
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of lecture notes which were presented by invited speakers at the Eleventh School on Theoretical Physics 'Symmetry and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter SSPCM 2014' in Rzeszów (Poland) in September 2014. The main challenge for the lecturers was the objective to present their subject as a review as well as in the form of introduction for beginners. Topics considered in the volume concentrate on: spin dynamics and spin transport in magnetic and non-magnetic structures, spin-orbit interaction in two-dimensional systems and graphene, and new mathematical method used in the condensed matter physics.Table of ContentsLectures on Non-Abelian Bosonization (AM Tsvelick); Rigged String Configurations, Bethe Ansatz Qubits, and Conservation of Parity (T Lulek); Nonequilibrium Spin Dynamics: From Protons in Water to A Gauge Theory of Spin-Orbit Coupling (IV Tokatly and Eya Sherman); From Graphene and Topological Insulators to Weyl Semimetals (RD Hills, M Brada, Y Liu, M Pierpont, WM Wu and FV Kusmartsev); Electrical and Thermal Control of Magnetic Moments (J Barnas, P Balaz, A Dyrdal and VK Dugaev); Non-Markovian Effects in The Lindblad Master Equation Approach to Electronic Transport (P Ribeiro and VR Vieira); Quantum Transport in Hybrid Nanostructures (KI Wysokinski, T Domanski and B Szukiewicz); Resonant Scattering Off Magnetic Impurities in Graphene: Mechanism Fort Ultrafast Spin Relaxation (D Kochan, M Gmitra and J Fabian); Spin-Orbit Interaction and Related Transport Phenomena in 2D Electron and Hole Systems (A Khaetskii); Landau Weak Crystallization Theory and Its Applications (EI Kats); Reservoir Approach to Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in A Magnetic Field (W Zawadzki, A Raymond and M Kubisa); Coupled Polarization/Magnetization Dynamics in Composite Multiferroics: An Overview (A Sukhov, L Chotorlishvili, CL Jia and J Berakdar);
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Thermodynamics And Equations Of State For Matter:
Book SynopsisThe monograph presents a comparative analysis of different thermodynamic models of the equations of state. The basic ideological premises of the theoretical methods and the experiment are considered. The principal attention is on the description of states that are of greatest interest for the physics of high energy concentrations which are either already attained or can be reached in the near future in controlled terrestrial conditions, or are realized in astrophysical objects at different stages of their evolution. Ultra-extreme astrophysical and nuclear-physical applications are also analyzed where the thermodynamics of matter is affected substantially by relativism, high-power gravitational and magnetic fields, thermal radiation, transformation of nuclear particles, nucleon neutronization, and quark deconfinement. The book is intended for a wide range of specialists engaged in the study of the equations of state of matter and high energy density physics, as well as for senior students and postgraduates.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Introduction To Graphene Plasmonics, An
Book SynopsisThis book is meant as an introduction to graphene plasmonics and aims at the advanced undergraduate and graduate students entering the field of plasmonics in graphene. In it different theoretical methods are introduced, starting with an elementary description of graphene plasmonics and evolving towards more advanced topics. This book is essentially self-contained and brings together a number of different topics about the field that are scattered in the vast literature. The text is composed of eleven chapters and of a set of detailed appendices. It can be read in two different ways: Reading only the chapters to get acquainted with the field of plasmonics in graphene or reading the chapters and studying the appendices to get a working knowledge of the topic. The study of the material in this book will bring the students to the forefront of the research in this field.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Electromagnetic Properties of Solids in a Nutshell; Surface Plasmon-Polaritons at Dielectric-Metal Interfaces; Graphene Surface Plasmons; Excitation of Graphene Surface Plasmons; Launching Plasmons Using a Metallic Antenna; Plasmonics in a Periodic Array of Graphene-Based Microribbons; Plasmons in Graphene Nanostructures and in One-dimensional Defects; Excitation of Surface Plasmon-Polaritons Using Dielectric Gratings; Excitation of Plasmons by an Emitting Dipole; Concluding Remarks; Appendices;
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Introduction To Graphene Plasmonics, An
Book SynopsisThis book is meant as an introduction to graphene plasmonics and aims at the advanced undergraduate and graduate students entering the field of plasmonics in graphene. In it different theoretical methods are introduced, starting with an elementary description of graphene plasmonics and evolving towards more advanced topics. This book is essentially self-contained and brings together a number of different topics about the field that are scattered in the vast literature. The text is composed of eleven chapters and of a set of detailed appendices. It can be read in two different ways: Reading only the chapters to get acquainted with the field of plasmonics in graphene or reading the chapters and studying the appendices to get a working knowledge of the topic. The study of the material in this book will bring the students to the forefront of the research in this field.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Electromagnetic Properties of Solids in a Nutshell; Surface Plasmon-Polaritons at Dielectric-Metal Interfaces; Graphene Surface Plasmons; Excitation of Graphene Surface Plasmons; Launching Plasmons Using a Metallic Antenna; Plasmonics in a Periodic Array of Graphene-Based Microribbons; Plasmons in Graphene Nanostructures and in One-dimensional Defects; Excitation of Surface Plasmon-Polaritons Using Dielectric Gratings; Excitation of Plasmons by an Emitting Dipole; Concluding Remarks; Appendices;
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