Materials/States of Matter

Leading graphene research theorist Mikhail I. Katsnelson systematically presents the basic concepts of graphene physics in this fully revised secon...

This book covers the important contributions of the Chinese during the development of high-temperature superconductors (HTS). The study of Y-based ...

Plasmonics is an important branch of optics concerned with the interaction of metals with light. Under appropriate illumination, metal nanoparticle...

Understand the fundamental concepts, theoretical background, major experimental observations, and device applications of graphene photonics with th...

This book deals with an important class of many-body systems: those where the interaction potential decays slowly for large inter-particle distance...

Over the past decade, research on molecular gels has expanded and progressed rapidly. This timely book presents the latest developments and underst...

This book on solid state physics has been written with an emphasis on recent developments in quantum many-body physics approaches. It starts by cov...

This book presents an up-to-date formalism of non-equilibrium Green's functions covering different applications ranging from solid state physics, p...

This book provides a clear and very broadly based introduction to crystallography, light, X-ray and electron diffraction - a knowledge which is ess...

This book provides a study in Bonding, Structure and Solid State Chemistry. It is based on lecture courses given over several years, but is not dir...

A comprehensive overview of the basic principles of vortex dynamics in superfluids, this book addresses the problems of vortex dynamics in all thre...

This book provides a study in Bonding, Structure and Solid State Chemistry. It is based on lecture courses given over several years, but is not dir...

Nanoscience and nanotechnology have functioned as effective buzzwords for at least a decade due to the unique properties that materials possess...

The Theory of Quanta has a large area of applicability. Any motion, at the fundamental level, is quantum-mechanical, or includes quantum-mechanical...

The Handbook of Materials Modeling, 2nd edition is a six-volume major reference serving a steadily growing community at the intersection of two mai...

Statistical physics and thermodynamics describe the behaviour of systems on the macroscopic scale. Their methods are applicable to a wide range of ...

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Bubbles is a clear, surprising and entertaining introduction to the science of bubbles. Bubbles are beauti...

An amorphous metal is a metallic material with a disordered atomic-scale structure. In contrast to most metals, which are crystalline and therefore...

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