States of matter books

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

Reviews the status of research and development in dilute III-V nitrides. This book covers major developments in...  Read More >>

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

The 2007 Spring Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkorperphysik was held in Regensburg, Germany, March 2007, in conjunction...  Read More >>

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

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

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The first three authors (Joos, Zeh, Kiefer) agree with one another that decoherence (in contradistinction to the...  Read More >>

The impressive success of experiments using short laser pulses to probe the properties of matter, as well as of...  Read More >>

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

In conventional color photography, spectral sensitizers cooperate with silver halide as acceptors of light during...  Read More >>

A class-tested primer for students, scientists and engineers who would like to have a basic understanding of the...  Read More >>

Essentially, Orientations and Rotations treats the mathematical and computational foundations of texture analysis....  Read More >>

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

Treating materials such as nanotubes and quantum dots and techniques like synchrotron radiation scattering and cavity...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

Describes the central aspects of diffusion in solids, and goes on to provide easy access to important information...  Read More >>

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

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

Focusing only on the Einstein relation in compound semiconductors and their nanostructures, this book deals with...  Read More >>

Developing and testing novel energetic materials is an expanding branch of the materials sciences. Finally, Chapters...  Read More >>

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