Böcker i International Series of Monographs on Physics-serien

Although the behaviour of natural phenomena can be explained by a few simple and symmetric basic laws there is an astounding variety of possibilities. These are caused by a process known as symmetry breaking, and vortices are one of the most common manifestations. This book concentrates on the dynamics of vortices in various contexts and gives a unified view of the underlying phenomena.

This book presents cutting-edge topics in modern theoretical physics - quantum Hall systems - the subject of two Nobel Prizes in 1985 and 1998.

Deals with the propagation and absorption of high frequency waves in plasmas (hot fully ionized gases), a subject on which work is very active in controlled fusion research and in astrophysics. This book could therefore be useful as a source for courses on electromagnetism or classical kinetic theory at a medium to advanced level.

A monograph on heavy electrons. This book serves as an advanced textbook on theoretical and experimental physics of strongly correlated electrons. Heavy electron systems as described in this book offer a case study for applying and testing most of the major tools in theoretical and experimental condensed matter physics.

The book discusses the principal theoretical methods and models used for strongly coupled plasmas in physics and astrophysics, engineering, and materials science. It includes experimental results of thermodynamical, transport, and optical properties, and modern methods of generation and diagnostics of strongly coupled plasmas.

The book provides a review of some of the most important and 'hot' topics in condensed matter physics today. It includes contributions by internationally leading experts such as V M Agranovich, B L Altshuler, E Burstein, V L Ginzburg, K Von Klitzing, P B Littlewood, M Pepper etc, and can serve as a guide-book to modern condensed matter physics.

This book provides a complete scientific survey of the experiments and theories of charge transport in liquid helium. The experimental outcome and the theoretical interpretation are thoroughly discussed. A vast literature is supplied for the interested reader to improve his/her knowledge of a specific topic.

This book throws some light on poorly understood aspects of the motion of magnetization in magnetic solids, particularly the effects of dissipative mechanisms. Aside from its practical aspects (such as magnetic recording), it addresses readers interested in the basic physics of nonlinear phenomena.

This book is a textbook for graduate students and researchers who are interested in ferromagnetism. The emphasis is primarily on explanation of physical concepts rather than on a rigorous theoretical treatment.

The aim of this work is to present a unified account of a limited area of rare-earth magnetism, the magnetic structures and excitations which reflect the nature of the fundamental magnetic interactions and determine many of the characteristic properties of metals.

The book develops the dynamical theory of scattering from random media from first principles. Its key findings are to characterize the time evolution of the scattered field in terms of stochastic differential equations, and to illustrate this framework in simulation and experimental data analysis. The physical models contain all correlation information and higher order statistics, which enables radar and laser scattering experiments to be interpreted. An emphasis isplaced on the statistical character of the instantaneous fluctuations, as opposed to ensemble average properties. This leads to various means for detection, which have important consequences in radar signal processing and statistical optics. The book is also significant also because it illustrateshow ideas in mathematical finance can be applied to physics problems in which non-Gaussian noise processes play an essential role. This pioneering book represents a significant advance in this field, and should prove valuable to leading edge researchers and practitioners at the postgraduate level and above.

Multipole theory provides a powerful way of characterizing the electromagnetic behaviour of a medium (both microscopic and macroscopic). This book describes multipole theory, and its successes and failures in applications to transmission, scattering and reflection. It also presents a modified multipole theory which avoids the failures of the standard approach.

Sam Edwards has led the field of condensed matter physics into new directions. This work presents a survey of some of the topics in condensed matter physics, from the perspective of the pioneering work of Sam Edwards. It is useful for graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, statistical physics and theoretical physics.

Covers phenomena in photon-matter interactions over a range of many orders in energy. A thorough treatment of relativistic quantum electrodynamics and more general gauge theories is given, and their connections with quantum optics and atomic physics are explored. The theory is extended to include open systems.

Provides an account of modern theoretical methods used to study the interaction of positive ions with atoms (or ions), concentrating particularly on charge exchange reactions. The material is presented at a level suitable for beginning research students, but assumes knowledge of undergraduate quantum mechanics and atomic physics.

CP violation is a subatomic process that occurs during the decay of kaons (a type of elementary particle). This book provides an introduction to CP violation, outlining the underlying theory and the experiments, which aim to expose the phenomenon. Starting at an elementary level, it guides the reader to the forefront of research.

This is a coherent and updated comprehensive treatise on the field of atomic physics in hot plasmas, which can be used both for tutorial and professional purposes, and which summarizes the central subjects in the field today.

Presents the methods, established results, and advances in the field of superconductivity including phonic, magnetic, and electronic models. The authors focus on the phenomenon of induced superconductivity in the high-temperature ("high-Tc") oxides, particularly the high transition temperature cuprates.

The aim of this book is to give a pedagogical introduction to the helicity method and to summarize a decade of research on the subject. It also provides an extensive list of helicity amplitudes and cross-sections for many of the most important QED and QCD processes at high energies, some being new and not available in the literature previously.

Basic to the entire theory and applications of black hole physics, this book covers the topics needed to understand the key issues in gravitation theory: cosmology and black holes. The topics included are the structure and topology of space-time, exact solutions and singularities, quantum effects in strong gravity fields, and more.

This monograph contains all aspects of plasma physics for plasma confinement in stellarator and heliotron devices. Present achievements and prospects for next generation devices are included.

Bose-Einstein condensation represents a new state of matter and is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics, resulting in the 2001 Nobel Prize. Providing a useful introduction to one of the most exciting fields of physics today, this text will be of interest to a growing community of physicists, and is easily accessible to non-specialists alike.

This book represents the first unified treatment of an important field of research - the theory of quantum fluctuations in inhomogeneous superconductivity materials. It can be used as a main or supplementary text in graduate courses on superconductivity, many-body systems, phase transitions, submicron physics, and surface science.

The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism

This new edition covers the main properties of nematics, cholesterics, and smectics and columnar phases, particularly the symmetry and the mechanical and optical characteristics of each phase. The latter includes some applications to display systems. The emphasis on order-of-magnitude considerations should make it useful to researchers.

This book presents a new conceptualization of quantum mechanics, using quaternions instead of complex numbers. The author gives a systematic treatment of quaternionic quantum mechanics paralleling the standard textbook treatment of complex quantum mechanics.

Plasma is ubiquitous: cooking gas flames, fluorescent lamps, the sun and stars, and so on. This book deals with the light which these plasmas emit: what is the colour and how strong is that light? Why is it so? The author provides a comprehensive theoretical framework from which a coherent account of these apparent phenomena can be made.

Provides a comprehensive account of the modern theory for the dynamical properties of polymer solutions. This includes viscoelasticity, diffusion, dynamic light scattering and flow and electric birefringence. Nonlinear viscoelasticity is discussed in detail on the basis of molecular dynamical models.

This book is a pedagogical yet complete introduction to the physics of one-dimensional systems, a topic of fundamental importance in the light of today's progress in nanotechnology and materials research. Written in a gentle, easy-going style it is accessible to graduate students and leads to the frontiers of current research.