Quantum Theory category: 1097 books
Semiconductor Circuits
Theory, Design and Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
Semiconductor Circuits: Theory, Design and Experiment details the information that are essential in designing and modifying circuits involving transistors and related semiconductor devices. The main concern of the book is the practical aspects of designing transistor circuits.
The title first covers...
by Mariana Graña, Hagen Triendl
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification.
The...
by Antonio S.T. Pires
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The goal of this text is to introduce, in a very elementary way, the concept of anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence to condensed matter physicists. This theory relates a gravity theory in a (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space
Decoding the Universe
How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everythingin the Cosmos, fromOu r Brains to Black Holes
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world
Previously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe,...
From Eternity to Here
The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?
Time moves forward, not backward—everyone knows you can’t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today’s hottest young physicists,...
by Mark A. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This undergraduate textbook discusses the nature of the microscopic universe from a modern perspective, based on Einstein's notions of relativity and Noether's proof of the emergence of conservation laws from symmetries of the equations of motion. These ideas drove the development of the Standard...
Consciousness and Cosmos
Proposal for a New Paradigm Based on Physics and Inrospection
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Your memories and feelings could be stored in matter based on non-physical atoms. This book takes the unique approach of recognizing that mental and spiritual phenomena can be observed in the same way that scientists observe physical phenomena. The book shows how all phenomena can be explained by...
Why Does E=mc2?
(And Why Should We Care?)
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
The international bestseller: an introduction to the theory of relativity by the eminent physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein's famous...
by Mark LaFlamme
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Angel Currie's bedroom is filled with little girl things. There are fuzzy pink toys on a soft, pink bed,. There's a doll house in the center of the room and a pink snow globe that plays Fur Elise. It is a place that any little girl would love. Even a dead little girl like Angel Currie.
The...
At Home in the Universe
The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of great civilizations....
The Recursive Universe
Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
No winners, no losers, and no end — the Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is no ordinary computer game. Created by British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970, Life debuted in Scientific American, where it was hailed as the key to a new area of mathematical research, the field of cellular...
by Yasumichi Aoki, Toshihide Maskawa, Koichi Yamawaki
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
This volume contains contributions which are largely focused on strong coupling gauge theories and the search of theories beyond the standard model, as well as new aspects in hot and dense QCD — particularly in view of the LHC experiments and the lattice studies of conformal fixed point.
It...
Third generation SUSY and t¯t +Z production
Searches using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This thesis describes searches for new particles predicted by the super symmetry (SUSY) theory, a theory extending beyond the current Standard Model of particle physics, using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The thesis focuses on searches for stop and sbottom squarks, the SUSY...
by Luca Peliti
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Statistical mechanics is one of the most exciting areas of physics today, and it also has applications to subjects as diverse as economics, social behavior, algorithmic theory, and evolutionary biology. Statistical Mechanics in a Nutshell offers the most concise, self-contained introduction to this...