States of matter books

The past few decades have witnessed remarkable growth and progress in our knowledge concerning the structure and...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comprehensive account of the new method of density matrix renormalization. With this...  Read More >>

In this book the process of decoherence is reviewed from both the theoretical and the experimental physicist's point...  Read More >>

A knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of both naturally occurring materials, such as soils and rocks, and artificial...  Read More >>

Part I is an introduction to quantum field theory: it discusses the basic Lagrangians used in the theory of elementary...  Read More >>

The physics of highly charged ions continues to be one of the most active and interesting fields of atomic physics....  Read More >>

Aimed at senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in departments of physics and astronomy, this textbook...  Read More >>

Computational Materials Design consists of ten chapters outlining a wide range of materials design technologies...  Read More >>

In the 1950s Shockley predicted that SiC would quickly replace Si as a result of its superior material properties....  Read More >>

Segregation is a pervasive phenomenon whereby a flowing granular mass consisting of particles with diverse physical...  Read More >>

Modern fracture mechanics considers phenomena at many levels, macro and micro; As a supplementary text, the...  Read More >>

The reader is introduced to this wide field by, first, a description of the material properties of granular materials...  Read More >>

Foams and emulsions are illustrations of some fundamental concepts in statistical thermodynamics, rheology, elasticity...  Read More >>

Optical Properties of Metal Clusters deals with the electronic structure of metal clusters determined optically....  Read More >>

This book contains most of the contributions presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Nanowires, held...  Read More >>

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Modern Techniques for Characterizing Magnetic Materials provides an extensive overview of novel characterization...  Read More >>

Nonlinear science is by now a well established field of research at the interface of many traditional disciplines...  Read More >>

Crystal growth and nucleation are treated in the specialized literature in different ways depending on the discipline...  Read More >>

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Covers a range of materials used for flexible electronics, including semiconductors, dielectrics, and metals. This...  Read More >>

Since the publication of the first edition of this book, there have been many im­ portant new developments in the...  Read More >>

Semiconductor quantum dots represent one of the fields of solid state physics that have experienced the greatest...  Read More >>

Considering the high level of our knowledge concerning covalent bond formation in the organic chemistry of molecules,...  Read More >>

Oxides form a broad subject area of research and technology development which encompasses different disciplines...  Read More >>