Böcker i International Series of Monographs on Physics-serien

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications including solar cells and light emitting devices. They are active components in many important biological processes. This book describes and explains the electronic and optical properties of conjugated polymers by developing theoretical models to understand the key electronic states.

Contains modern concepts about the physics of electrons in solids. This book helps the reader choose an efficient scheme of an experiment, or the optimum algorithm of a calculation. It is useful to those who study or professionally deal with solid state physics.

The book, in the broadest sense, is an application of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to the field of magnetism. It can be used for parts of a specialized course on material properties or solid-state physics and magnetism.

This work provides a systematic introduction to quantum field theory and renormalization group, as applied to particle physics and continuous macroscopic phase transitions.

The book provides scientists with a detailed understanding of the nature of superconductivity and the most interesting superconducting materials.

Black holes present one of the most fascinating predictions of Einstein's general relativity, with strong evidence of their existence through observations of many means. The book provides a wide background to the current research on all mathematical aspects of the geometry of black hole spacetimes.

This new book describes the basic physics of solar and infrared radiation in the atmosphere. Radiation theory is related to the development of climate prediction models, and to measurement techniques for monitoring the Earth's energy budget and making remote sensing observations from satellites.

Ultracold atomic gases is a rapidly developing field of physics that attracts many young researchers around the world. This book gives a comprehensive overview of exciting developments in Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity from a theoretical perspective and makes sense of key experiments with a special focus on ultracold atomic gases.

This book presents the advances made in Statistical Mechanics of the last 50 years, including mathematical theorems on order and phase transitions; numerical and series computations of phase diagrams; and solutions for important solvable models including Ising and 8 vertex.

The book discusses fundamental aspects of Quantum Field Theory and of Gauge theories, with attention to mathematical consistency. Basic issues of the standard model of elementary particles (Higgs mechanism and chiral symmetry breaking in quantum Chromodynamics) are treated without relying on the perturbative expansion and on instanton calculus.

This book is a self-contained introduction to the field of numerical relativity. Starting from basic general relativity, it introduces all the concepts and tools necessary for the fully relativistic simulation of astrophysical systems with strong and dynamical gravitational fields.

The book explicates the concept of entropy, particularly its governance of all of thermal physics, over a broad range of equilibrium and nonequilibrium phenomena. Historical development and modern research are presented in the context of entropy as a fundamental element of probability theory and its relation to the notion of information.

The book provides a detailed and uniform treatment of the science and technology of light absorbing organic materials (used in nano-scale optical devices, LEDs, solar cells, flat screens, cell phones etc), which are increasingly investigated for use in mass market products.

This book is a comprehensive sourcebook, distilled from hundreds of recently published papers, about the Casimir effect: the small forces originating from the quantum vacuum and acting between closely spaced bodies. It brings together developments in experiment and theory, fundamental and applied aspects of the Casimir force.

Amorphous condensed matter can exhibit complex motions on time scales which extend up to those relevant for the functioning of biomaterials. The book presents the derivation of a microscopic theory for amorphous matter, which exhibits the evolution of such complex motions as a new paradigm of strongly interacting particle systems. e

With a primary focus on experiments, the authors include an extensive theoretical introduction to the field, as well as many exercises with solutions explained in detail.

Quantum field theory is an area of wide and growing interest to students and researchers of both mathematics and physics. This is an authoritative and self- contained introduction to the subject, which uses the mathematical theory of operator algebras to present the theory.

This book provides an introduction to some of the most recent developments in string theory, and in particular to their mathematical implications and their impact in knot theory and algebraic geometry.

Talking about liquid crystals, polymers, rubber, and elasticity, this book reviews experimental techniques and results, and describes theoretical ideas, illustrating them by solved examples and nearly 200 figures. It is aimed at physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate student level.

Presents an application of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to the field of magnetism. This book contains the microscopic theory of many electron systems, which provide the physical understanding of magnetism. It shows how to solve the equations numerically and how to apply them to practical problems arising in mechanical engineering.

Spin glasses are magnetic materials. Statistical mechanics, a subfield of physics, has been a powerful tool to theoretically analyse various unique properties of spin glasses. This book provides the reader with a sound introduction to the field and to the analytical techniques necessary to follow its developments.

The book provides a detailed survey of the modern developments in supersymmetry that are essential preparation for a graduate student or researcher intending to enter into particle theory or string theory.

Self-contained introduction to the path integral method in field theory and its applications to quantum anomalies. The subjects covered in the book are relevant to particle and high-energy nuclear theory, conformal field theory, applications to condensed matter theory, and string theory. No previous knowledge beyond the advanced undergraduate quantum mechanics is assumed.

Provides a pedagogical introduction to the theoretical and computer simulation techniques that are useful in the design of polymer formulations, including personal care products, multiphase plastic materials, processed foods, and colloidal and nanoparticle dispersions.

The text presents a general overview of analogies between phenomena in condensed matter physics on one hand and quantum field theory and elementary particle physics on the other.

This book describes the theory of superconducting fluctuations, which connects two major topics in statistical physics - the theory of phase transitions and the theory of superconductivity. It presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarising the last thirty-five years of work in the field.

This book describes the theory of how processes on the unobservable molecular scale give rise to observable effects such as diffusion and electrical noise on the macroscopic or laboratory scale. It puts the modern theory into historical context, and features new applications, statistical mechanics derivations, and the mathematical background of the topic.

Deals with the behaviour of superconductors in external fields varying in time, and with transport phenomena in superconductors. This book starts with the fundamentals of the first-principle, microscopic theory of superconductivity, and guides the reader through the modern theoretical analysis to applications of the theory to practical problems.

Serves as a textbook for first-year graduate and advanced undergraduate students in both physics and engineering. This book explains the theoretical principles on which the work is based for practising engineers and experimental physicists who work in the field of magnetism.

Provides information on fusion energy, burning hydrogen which is available from water. It is the energy source of the sun. It produces neither greenhouse gases leading to global warming nor nuclear waste. This book describes how to use powerful lasers to ignite the hydrogen fuel, and is aimed at those who want to understand its technical basis.