Solid State Physics category: 599 books
Superconductivity
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The third edition of this proven text has been developed further in both scope and scale to reflect the potential for superconductivity in power engineering to increase efficiency in electricity transmission or engines.
The landmark reference remains a comprehensive introduction to the field, covering...
by Thomas Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This thesis presents neutron scattering data that contribute to the understanding of four distinct areas of condensed matter physics, including iso-compositional liquid-liquid phase transitions and the glass formation in rare earth doped BaTi2O5.
In situ aerodynamic levitation with laser heating...
by Giorgio Speranza, Wei Liu, Luca Minati
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
This book provides a survey of the latest research and developments in plasma technology. In an easy and comprehensive manner, it explores what plasma is and the technologies utilized to produce plasma. It then investigates the main applications and their benefits. Different from other books on the...
The Fiber Bundle Model
Modeling Failure in Materials
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Gathering research from physics, mechanical engineering, and statistics in a single resource for the first time, this text presents the background to the model, its theoretical basis, and applications ranging from materials science to earth science.
The authors start by explaining why disorder is...
The Langevin Equation
With Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Our original objective in writing this book was to demonstrate how the concept of the equation of motion of a Brownian particle — the Langevin equation or Newtonian-like evolution equation of the random phase space variable
Negative Frequency at the Horizon
Theoretical Study and Experimental Realisation of Analogue Gravity Physics in Dispersive Optical Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This book is part of a large and growing body of work on the observation of analogue gravity effects, such as Hawking radiation, in laboratory systems.
The book is highly didactic, skillfully navigating between concepts ranging from quantum field theory on curved space-times, nonlinear...
Photons in Fock Space and Beyond
(In 3 Volumes)
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The three-volume major reference “Photons in Fock Space and Beyond” undertakes a new mathematical and conceptual foundation of the theory of light emphasizing mesoscopic radiation systems. The quantum optical notions are generalized beyond Fock representations where the richness of an infinite...
Magnetic Perovskites
Synthesis, Structure and Physical Properties
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Magnetic perovskite with multi functional properties (magneto-resistive, magneto-dielectric, multiferroics, spintronics, etc.) have attracted increasing attention due to their possible applications towards storage materials and intriguing fundamental Physics. Despite the numerous investigations on...
by G Barbero, L R Evangelista
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
This book was written to enable physicists and engineers to learn, within a single course, some topics in variational calculus, theory of elasticity, molecular models, and surface properties of nematic materials. It prepares graduate students for studies that require a simple knowledge in the physics...
Collective Classical and Quantum Fields
In Plasmas, Superconductors, Superfluid 3He, and Liquid Crystals
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This is an introductory book dealing with collective phenomena in many-body systems. A gas of bosons or fermions can show oscillations of various types of density. These are described by different combinations of field variables. Especially delicate is the competition of these variables. In superfluid...
Solitons in Crystalline Processes
Statistical thermodynamics of structural phase transitions and mesoscopic disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Solitons in Crystalline Processes presents the soliton theory applied to crystalline processes for the first time. Starting with critical anomalies in binary transitions, the soliton idea leads to nonlinear waves in crystals, constituting the basic objective in this book. The theory explains logically...
by Valeriy Astapenko
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The book is devoted to the modern theory and experimental manifestation of Polarization Bremsstrahlung (PB) which arises due to scattering of charged particles from various targets: atoms, nanostructures (including atomic clusters, nanoparticle in dielectric matrix, fullerens, graphene-like two-dimensional...
by Valerie Randle
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
As the selection of material for particular engineering properties becomes increasingly important in keeping costs down, methods for evaluating material properties also become more relevant. One such method examines the geometry of grain boundaries, which reveals much about the properties of the material.
Studying...
by Richard Haight, Adra V Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This book describes the application of ultrafast laser science and technology in materials and processing relevant to industry today, including ultrafast laser ablation where fundamental studies have led to the development of the world's first femtosecond photomask repair tool. Semiconductor manufacturing...