Applied physics books

Extragalactic X-ray studies provide unique opportunities for studying accreting black holes. In particular, they...  Read More >>

Mathematics is central to a professional physicist's work and, by extension, to a physics student's studies. It...  Read More >>

How a core collapse supernova successfully explodes is only partially understood. Computer models indicate that...  Read More >>

Milagro is a water-Cherenkov detector that observes the extended air showers produced by cosmic gamma rays of energies...  Read More >>

PMIn this dissertation, the ferromagnetic properties of the diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As will be explored....  Read More >>

This thesis examines the behavior of dc SQUID phase qubits in terms of their proposed use in a quantum computer....  Read More >>

Data from the Swift mission have now shown that flares are a common component of Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows, appearing...  Read More >>

The idea of effective field theory (EFT) was developed decades ago in low-energy strong-interaction---hadronic and...  Read More >>

This dissertation details the synthesis and properties of thin films and devices based on multiferroic materials....  Read More >>

This work is a study exploring the extent of suitability of static first-principles calculations for studying diffusion...  Read More >>

Standard first-principles total energy and force calculations were extended to the calculations of harmonic force...  Read More >>

Liquid 4He enters the superfluid state and flows without friction below 2.176 K at zero pressure limit. A similar...  Read More >>

I use tools and concepts from non-equilibrium statistical physics and polymer physics to describe the large-scale...  Read More >>

This thesis is a tour of topics in cosmology, unified by their diversity and pursuits in better understanding of...  Read More >>

The first part of this thesis focuses on the production of thermal dileptons from a hadronic gas at finite temperature....  Read More >>

This dissertation details work on high repetition rate semiconductor mode-locked lasers. The qualities of stable...  Read More >>

Since the realization that the proton is a composite particle, much work has gone into understanding its structure...  Read More >>

Supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds may strongly influence the very early stages of star formation. In this...  Read More >>

Electronic devices that make up 99% of the computer processor and memory market are based on silicon (semiconductor)...  Read More >>

Trapped cold ions are tools which we used to approach two very disparate areas of physics, strong coupling between...  Read More >>

The papers of this Proceedings volume present new developments in - Health Care Technology, - Medical Devices,...  Read More >>

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This work reviews the literature on analogy, introduces a new model of analogy, and presents a series of experiments...  Read More >>

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