States of matter books

This graduate textbook is in three parts: the first deals with phenomenological aspects of superconductivity; the...  Read More >>

A general introduction to solid polymer physics at a more elementary level than many existing books, assuming no...  Read More >>

The study of the electronic structure of materials is at a momentous stage, with the emergence of computational...  Read More >>

Taking a 'reductionist' view of statistical mechanics, this 2006 book implicitly assumes that the physics of complex...  Read More >>

An overview of the physics of condensed matter systems, written in a clear, pedagogic style with extensive examples...  Read More >>

This rigorous explanation of plasmas is relevant to diverse plasma applications. More thorough than previous texts,...  Read More >>

This comprehensive textbook, first published in 2007, introduces the necessary fluid dynamics to understand a wide...  Read More >>

A self-contained introduction to the theory underlying the many fascinating properties of solids and quantum liquids,...  Read More >>

This unified introduction provides the tools and techniques needed to analyze plasmas and connects plasma phenomena...  Read More >>

With entirely new chapters and updated example problems, the second edition of this popular text continues to provide...  Read More >>

Introducing quantum mechanics and the world of nanostructures, this textbook will enable engineers to apply the...  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of quantum transport, this textbook is...  Read More >>

Covers a range of topics on fundamentals and applications of microscale and nanoscale transfer processes of mass,...  Read More >>

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It is the principal aim of this book to present an introduction to structure determination by X-ray crystal­ lography...  Read More >>

Here we demonstrate how microscopic collision processes (that is, processes which can be describedby quantum mechanics)...  Read More >>

Although the subject of wave propagation in solids has a long history, the classical theory of elastic waves having...  Read More >>

This book is devoted to the fundamentals of the theoretical analysis of phase equilibrium diagrams.  Read More >>

"Since the discovery of superconductivity in 1911 by H. Kamerlingh Onnes, of the order of half a billion dollars...  Read More >>

It is the principal aim of this book to present an introduction to structure determination by X-ray crystal­ lography...  Read More >>

Life would not exist without sensitive, or soft, matter. Red blood globules, lung fluid, and membranes depend on...  Read More >>

This led to extensive investigations of numerous gas/solid phenomena, such as surface ionization, sputtering, emission...  Read More >>

At the International Summer Institute in Surface Science (ISISS), which is held bienially on the Campus of the University...  Read More >>

"Auf einer Sitzung des :Biiros der Internationalen Union fiir Theore- tische und Angewandte Mechanik (IUTAM) in...  Read More >>

A lively demonstration of the great vitality and the multidisciplinary character of cluster research and of the...  Read More >>