States of matter books

This revised edition of the classical book on Statistical Mechanics covers the basic concepts of equilibrium and...  Read More >>

Assimilating new research in the field of low-dimensional metals, this monograph provides a detailed overview of...  Read More >>

Applications of X-ray scattering to soft matter have advanced considerably within recent years, both conceptually...  Read More >>

issues raised by quantum theory, a topic not very popular during his student days at Queen's University, Belfast....  Read More >>

The transport of a given species (atoms, molecules, neutrons, photons, etc. ), either through its own kind or through...  Read More >>

This volume on spin glasses, structural glasses and biological macromolecules collects pedagogically written lecture...  Read More >>

The role of water in biological processes, the mechanisms of protein folding, the phases and cooperative effects...  Read More >>

The 2007 Spring Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik was held in Regensburg, Germany, between March 26 and...  Read More >>

In the last two decades remarkable progress has been made in understanding and describing tunneling processes in...  Read More >>

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Deals with the quantum coherence which plays a crucial role in various forms of matter.  Read More >>

In this volume we have collected some of the contributions made to the Twelfth European Workshop on Quantum Systems...  Read More >>

As microstructured glass becomes increasingly important for microsystems technology, the main application fields...  Read More >>

Plasma-Material Interaction in Controlled Fusion deals with the specific contact between the fourth state of matter,...  Read More >>

The emphasis of this timely volume is on surfactants mediating interfacial and molecular aggregation phenomena....  Read More >>

Materials science has assumed a key position for new technological dev- opments, and is therefore strongly supported...  Read More >>

Each of the eight chapters treats an important aspect of solid state physics, comprising a complete review of the...  Read More >>

A variety of plasmas include molecules rather than only ions or atoms. This book describes the role of molecules...  Read More >>

Discovered in 1880, piezoelectric materials play a key role in an innovative market of several billions of dollars....  Read More >>

dislocations (line defects), grain boundaries, stacking faults, twins and {311} defects (two-dimensional defects)...  Read More >>

This state-of-the-art book aims at revising the evolution of ideas in various branches of magnetohydrodynamics (astrophysics,...  Read More >>

This book is a monograph about Mechatronic Reliability, an emerging branch of modern technology. It addresses professionals,...  Read More >>

Hard spheres and related objects (hard disks and mixtures of hard systems) are paradigmatic systems: indeed, they...  Read More >>

In this updated and fully revised second edition, the authors provide the newcomer and the experienced practitioner...  Read More >>

Quantal density functional theory (Q-DFT) is a new local effective potential energy theory of the electronic structure...  Read More >>