Materials/States of Matter

This textbook is a modern take on an old subject at the heart of materials physics. Properties of crystalline materials are almost always controlle...

A guide to the theoretical and computational toolkits for the modern study of molecular kinetics in condensed phases Molecular Kinetics in Condense...

Scientists are increasingly finding themselves engaged in research problems that cross the traditional disciplinary lines of physics, chemistry, bi...

A better understanding of the mechanisms leading a fluid system to exhibit turbulent behavior is one of the grand challenges of the physical and ma...

An understanding of the behaviour of financial assets and the evolution of economies has never been as important as today. This book looks at these...

This book introduces the fundamentals of plasma theory at an entry level, combining a study of related fields such as fusion, astrophysics, radio t...

This graduate-level textbook is the first pedagogical synthesis of the field of topological insulators and superconductors, one of the most excitin...

This valuable resource summarizes the past fifty years' basic research accomplishments in plasma dynamics for aerospace engineering, presenting the...

Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter. In particular, it i...

Flowing matter is all around us, from daily-life vital processes (breathing, blood circulation), to industrial, environmental, biological, and medi...

This book is focused on the spintronic properties of IIIV nitride semiconductors. Particular attention is paid to the comparison between zinc blend...

Microcavities are semiconductor, metal, or dielectric structures providing optical confinement in one, two or three dimensions. At the end of the 2...

Ultrafast science has long been limited to the investigation of molecular processes. Over the past 10 years investigation of ultrafast processes ha...

This book is written to introduce experimental magnetism in a comprehensive manner to advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students p...

This book provides a semi-quantitative approach to understanding and applications of charge carriers in inorganic and organic opto-electronic and p...

Liquid crystal is a curious phase of matter. It has the ability at once to flow, like water, and to refract, like ice. It was closely observed, if ...

Plasmonics refers to the generation, detection, and manipulation of signals at optical frequencies along metal-dialectric interfaces at the nanomet...

Introducing the Generalised Molecular Crystal Model, as a more realistic model for the study of the small polaron transport in disordered materials...

This volume comprises 8 articles written by lecturers of 50th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics and their collaborators. The contributin...

In Applied Gas Dynamics, Professor Ethirajan Rathakrishnan introduces the high-tech science of gas dynamics, from a definition of the subject to th...

Metamaterials is a young subject born in the 21st century. It is concerned with artificial materials which can have electrical and magnetic propert...

The book provides an overview of the author's work devoted to experimental study of hopping conductivity, which includes substantial contributions,...

This book collects lecture courses and seminars given at the Les Houches Summer School 2010 on Quantum Theory: From Small to Large Scales. Fundamen...

What kind of information on the electrons' organisation in solids is yielded by measuring their thermoelectric response? Fundamentals of Thermoelec...

By identifying unifying concepts across solid state physics, this text covers theory in an accessible way to provide graduate students with an intu...

This is the third volume in a four-part series on Fluid Dynamics: PART 1: Classical Fluid Dynamics PART 2: Asymptotic Problems of Fluid Dynamic...

An up-to-date comprehensive text useful for graduate students and academic researchers in the field of energy transfers in fluid flows. The initial...

The book presents an advanced tool for experimentalists using spectral lineshapes for diagnostics of laboratory or astrophysical plasmas, and for t...

Soft matters differ from hard ones essentially due to former's relatively weak interaction which is comparable to kBTrm (Trm = room temperature) t...

Ultrasonic spectroscopy is a technique widely used in solid-state physics, materials science, and geology that utilizes acoustic waves to determine...

This book provides a practical guide to molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation techniques used in the modelling of simple and complex liquid...

Written by a leading expert in the field, this book presents a novel method for controlling high-speed flows past aerodynamic shapes using energy d...

Modelling of heterogeneous processes, such as electrochemical reactions, extraction, or ion-exchange, usually requires solving the transport proble...