World Scientific, 2010. — 236 с. — ISBN: 978-1-61344-048-3 The topics of anisotropy and bianisotropy are fundamental to electromagnetics from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. These properties underpin a host of complex and exotic electromagnetic phenomenons in naturally occurring materials and in relativistic scenarios, as well as in artificially produced...
М.: Энергоатомиздат, 1995. — 320 с. — ISBN: 5-283-04078-X Описан широкий круг физических явлений, сопровождающих взаимо-действие поляризованных элементарных частиц с веществом и представляющих новую область исследований — ядерную оптику поляризованных сред. Проанализированы явления, аналогичные повороту плоскости поляризации и двойному лучепреломлению. Сделан вывод о...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 474 p. — (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics). — ISBN: 9781108428743. Recent cosmological observations have posed a challenge for traditional theories of gravity: what is the force driving the accelerated expansion of the universe? What if dark energy or dark matter do not exist and what we observe is a modification of the...
Avalon Publishing, 2003 — 390 p. — (Frontiers in Physics Series 101) — ISBN: 9780813341316. This book should be at the side of every particle and nuclear physics graduate student and professional. Journeys Beyond the Standard Model starts with a detailed and modern account of the Standard Model of elementary particle physics, the paradigm of particle physics for the last twenty...
Springer International Publishing, 2018 — 199p. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 424) — ISBN: 978-3-319-22801-3 (eBook), 978-3-319-22800-6 (Hardcover). All stars are born in groups. The origin of these groups has long been a key question in astronomy, one that interests researchers in star formation, the interstellar medium, and cosmology. This volume summarizes...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) — 278 p. — ISBN: 9781107047471. Written for researchers focusing on general relativity, supergravity, and cosmology, this is a self-contained exposition of the structure of the cosmological singularity in generic solutions of the Einstein equations, and an up-to-date mathematical derivation of...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 192 p. — ISBN: 9780521141918. Kinks and domain walls are the simplest kind of solitons and are invaluable for testing various ideas and for learning about non-perturbative aspects of field theories. They are the subject of research in essentially every branch of physics, ranging from condensed matter to cosmology. This book is an introduction...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 2nd Ed. — (Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics) — 240 p. — ISBN: 9780521336550. This textbook is an introduction to the theory of solitons and its diverse applications to nonlinear systems that arise in the physical sciences. The authors explain the generation and properties of solitons, introducing the mathematical technique known as the...
Springer, 2004. — 213 p. — (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 201). — ISBN: 978-3-540-40977-9, 978-3-662-14439-8, 978-3-540-20692-7. This up-to-date review also serves as an introduction to Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) - a new approach to heavy quark physics problems in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Heavy quark physics is one of the most active areas of high-energy...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 252 p. — ISBN: 9780521537803. This 2004 textbook fills a gap in the literature on general relativity by providing the advanced student with practical tools for the computation of many physically interesting quantities. The context is provided by the mathematical theory of black holes, one of the most elegant, successful, and relevant...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 286p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-55144-9 (eBook), 978-3-319-55142-5 (Hardcover). This textbook employs a pedagogical approach that facilitates access to the fundamentals of Quantum Photonics. It contains an introductory description of the quantum properties of photons through the second quantization of the...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 994 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-53282-0 (eBook), 978-3-319-53281-3 (Hardcover). For the first time, all five of John Napier’s works have been brought together in English in a single volume, making them more accessible than ever before. His four mathematical works were originally published in Latin: two in his lifetime (1550–1617), one shortly...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 210 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-53181-6, 978-3-319-53179-3. This textbook provides an introduction to radiation, the principles of interaction between radiation and matter, and the exploitation of those principles in the design of modern radiation detectors. Both radiation and detectors are given equal attention...
4th Ed. — Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 642 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics). — ISBN: 978-3-319-47769-5; 978-3-319-47767-1. This expanded and updated well-established textbook contains an advanced presentation of quantum mechanics adapted to the requirements of modern atomic physics. It includes topics of current interest such as semiclassical theory, chaos, atom...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 644 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 936) — ISBN: 978-3-319-53336-0; 978-3-319-53335-3. This graduate-level text collects and synthesizes a series of ten lectures on the nuclear quantum many-body problem. Starting from our current understanding of the underlying forces, it presents recent advances within the field of lattice quantum...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 246 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 931). — ISBN: 978-3-319-52573-0, 978-3-319-52571-6. This book provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field of holographic entanglement entropy. Within the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, it is shown how quantum entanglement is computed by the area of certain extremal surfaces....
2nd Ed. — Springer, 2017. — 227 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics). — ISBN: 978-3-662-54515-7; 978-3-662-54513-3. Quantum physics may appear complicated, especially if one forgets the "big picture" and gets lost in the details. However, it can become clearer and less tangled if one applies a few fundamental concepts so that simplified approaches can emerge and estimated orders of...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 427p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 939) — ISBN: 978-3-319-55255-2 (eBook), 978-3-319-55253-8 (Softcover). These course-tested lectures provide a technical introduction to Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories (SUSY GUTs), as well as a personal view on the topic by one of the pioneers in the field. While the Standard Model of Particle...
Princeton University Press, 2009 — 592p. — (Princeton Series in Astrophysics) — ISBN: 9780691125114. Written by leading experts in the field, Stellar Spectral Classification is the only book to comprehensively discuss both the foundations and most up-to-date techniques of MK and other spectral classification systems. Definitive and encyclopedic, the book introduces the...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 267 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 938). — ISBN: 978-3-319-52437-5, 978-3-319-52436-8. This book presents the Green’s function formalism in a basic way and demonstrates its usefulness for applications to several well-known problems in classical physics which are usually solved not by this formalism but other approaches. The book...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 2nd Ed. — 353p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-55619-2 (eBook), 978-3-319-55617-8 (Hardcover). This textbook addresses graduate students starting to specialize in theoretical physics. It provides didactic introductions to the main topics in the theory of fields, while taking into account the contemporary view of the...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 173p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 937) — ISBN: 978-3-319-51920-3 (eBook), 978-3-319-51919-7 (Softcover). With this graduate-level primer, the principles of the standard model of particle physics receive a particular skillful, personal and enduring exposition by one of the great contributors to the field. In 2013 the late Prof. Altarelli...
2-е изд. — М.: Физматлит, 2005. — 744 с. — ISBN: 5-9221-0612-0. Посвящена систематическому изложению результатов аксиоматического направления в квантовой теории поля. Часть I содержит необходимые сведения из функционального анализа и теории обобщенных функций, а также элементы теории функций нескольких комплексных переменных. Центральное место (части II—IV) занимают различные...
2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — М.: Наука, 1988. — 240 с. Дается формулировка квантовой теории поля в терминах континуального интеграла. Излагается общий метод квантования неголономпых систем и на его основе строится схема квантования калибровочно инвариантных теорий поля. Формулируется инвариантная процедура перенормировки калибровочных теорий. Обсуждаются применения калибровочных...
Academic Press , 1991. — 628 p. — (Techniques in Physics 10) — ISBN: 9780121898069. Recent devopments, particularly in high-energy physics, have projected group theory and symmetry consideration into a central position in theoretical physics. These developments have taken physicists increasingly deeper into the fascinating world of pure mathematics. This work presents important...
Academic Press , 1986. — 562 p. — (Techniques in Physics 8) — ISBN: 9780121898045. The main aim of these two volumes has been to provide a thorough and self-contained account both of those parts of group theory that have been found to be most useful and of their major applications to physical problems. The treatment starts with the basic concepts and is carried right through to...
Academic Press , 1986. — 418 p. — (Techniques in Physics 7) — ISBN: 9780121898038. The main aim of these two volumes has been to provide a thorough and self-contained account both of those parts of group theory that have been found to be most useful and of their major applications to physical problems. The treatment starts with the basic concepts and is carried right through to...
Cambridge University Press, 1974. — 228 p. — ISBN: 9780521098595. Models of the regular and semi-regular polyhedral solids have fascinated people for centuries. The Greeks knew the simplest of them. Since then the range of figures has grown; 75 are known today and are called, more generally, 'uniform' polyhedra. The author describes simply and carefully how to make models of...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 476 p. — ISBN: 9780521664059. Polyhedra have cropped up in many different guises throughout recorded history. In modern times, polyhedra and their symmetries have been cast in a new light by combinatorics and group theory. This book comprehensively documents the many and varied ways that polyhedra have come to the fore throughout the...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 185p. — (Historical & Cultural Astronomy) — ISBN: 978-3-319-41486-7 (eBook), 978-3-319-41485-0 (Hardcover). This book comprises a fascinating collection of contributions on the Merz telescopes in Italy that collectively offer the first survey on historical large refracting telescopes in the country, drawing on original documents and...
Oxford University Press, 1985. — 294 p. — ISBN: 9780198531999. This atlas covers groups from the families of the classification of finite simple groups. Recently updated incorporating corrections
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 2nd Ed. — 676p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-50651-7 (eBook), 978-3-319-50650-0 (Hardcover). This textbook provides an introductory presentation of all types of lasers. It contains a general description of the laser, a theoretical treatment and a characterization of its operation as it deals with gas, solid state,...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2017 — 2nd Ed. — 400p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-662-53207-2 (eBook), 978-3-662-53205-8 (Hardcover). This textbook provides an exposition of equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena. The applications include several areas...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 118p. — (SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics 23) — ISBN: 978-3-319-55023-7 (eBook), 978-3-319-55022-0 (Softcover). This work presents a computational program based on the principles of non-commutative geometry and showcases several applications to topological insulators. Noncommutative geometry has been originally proposed by Jean...
Springer Singapore, 2017 — 138p. — (SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics 22) — ISBN: 978-981-10-4094-8 (eBook), 978-981-10-4093-1 (Softcover). This is the first book to treat combinatorial and geometric aspects of two-dimensional solitons. Based on recent research by the author and his collaborators, the book presents new developments focused on an interplay between the...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 74p. — (SpringerBriefs in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-54316-1 (eBook), 978-3-319-54315-4 (Softcover). The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 108p. — (SpringerBriefs in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-52271-5 (eBook), 978-3-319-52270-8 (Softcover). This book presents the Projective approach to de Sitter Relativity. It traces the development of renewed interest in models of the universe at constant positive curvature such as "vacuum" geometry. The De Sitter Theory of Relativity,...
Springer Netherlands, 2017 — 830p. — (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) — ISBN: 978-94-024-0959-8 (eBook), 978-94-024-0958-1 (Hardcover). The book is devoted to the study of the geometrical and topological structure of gauge theories. It consists of the following three building blocks:- Geometry and topology of fibre bundles,- Clifford algebras, spin structures and Dirac...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 125p. — (Springer Theses) — ISBN: 978-3-319-51862-6 (eBook), 978-3-319-51861-9 (Hardcover). This thesis represents a decisive breakthrough in our understanding of the physics of universal quantum-mechanical three-body systems. The Efimov scenario is a prime example of how fundamental few-body physics features universally across...
Springer Singapore, 2017 — 115p. — (Springer Theses) — ISBN: 978-981-10-3740-5 (eBook), 978-981-10-3739-9 (Hardcover). This thesis describes one of the most precise experimental tests of Lorentz symmetry in electrodynamics by light-speed anisotropy measurement with an asymmetric optical ring cavity. The author aims to answer the fundamental, hypothetical debate on Lorentz...
3rd Ed. — Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 872 p. — (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) — ISBN: 978-3-319-44431-4; 978-3-319-44429-1. The third edition of this indispensable book in radio interferometry provides extensive updates to the second edition, including results and technical advances from the past decade; discussion of arrays that now span the full range of...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 132 p. — ISBN: 9780521113113. The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to research work on a particular aspect of rotating fields in general relativity. The account begins with a short introduction to the relevant aspects of general relativity, written at a level accessible to a beginning graduate student in theoretical physics. There...
2nd Ed. — World Scientific, 2016. — 748 p. — ISBN: 978-981-4704-40-3, 978-981-4704-42-7. This book presents, in the form of reviews by world's leading physicists in wide-ranging fields in theoretical physics, the influence and prescience of Skyrme's daring idea of 1960, originally conceived for nuclear physics, that fermions can arise from bosons via topological solitons,...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 127 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 932). — ISBN: 978-3-319-50871-9, 978-3-319-50870-2. This concise primer introduces the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP) and systematically reviews the evidence for the two main mechanisms which lead to the so-called impulsive and gradual SEP events. More...
2nd Ed. — Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 847 p. — (Springer Series in Optical Sciences 161) — ISBN: 978-3-319-42367-8, 978-3-319-42365-4. The book gives an in-depth description of key devices of current and next generation fibre optic communication networks. Devices treated include semiconductor lasers, optical amplifiers, modulators, wavelength filters and other...
CRC Press, 2007. — 368 p. — (Condensed Matter Physics). — ISBN: 9780750309974. In the past thirty years, the area of spin glasses has experienced rapid growth, including the development of solvable models for glassy systems. Yet these developments have only been recorded in the original research papers, rather than in a single source. Thermodynamics of the Glassy State presents...
CRC Press, 2016. — 398 p. — ISBN: 9781498746649. This book suitable for post graduates in Physics and Astrophysics aims at introducing the theory of general relativity as an important background for doing astrophysics. Starting from a detailed discussion of the various mathematical concepts for doing general relativity, the book introduces the geometric description of gravity....
CRC Press, 2016. — 718 p. — ISBN: 9781466566217. Up-to-Date Coverage of the Navier–Stokes Equation from an Expert in Harmonic Analysis The complete resolution of the Navier–Stokes equation—one of the Clay Millennium Prize Problems—remains an important open challenge in partial differential equations (PDEs) research despite substantial studies on turbulence and three-dimensional...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 896 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics). — ISBN: 978-3-319-49978-9; 978-3-319-49976-5. This textbook provides a unified approach to acoustics and vibration suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate courses on vibration and fluids. The book includes thorough treatment of vibration of harmonic oscillators, coupled...
CRC Press, 2016. — 482 p. — (Series in Materials Science and Engineering). — ISBN: 9781498753883. A skyrmion is a tiny region of reversed magnetization – quasiparticles since they are not present except in a magnetic state, and also give rise to physics that cannot be described by Maxwell’s equations. These particles are fascinating subjects for theoretical and experimental...