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 of condensed matter physics and include also a chapter on thermochemistry. Phase transitions and critical phenomena are treated according to the modern development of the field, based on the ideas of universality and on the Widom scaling theory. For each topic, a mean-field or Landau theory is presented to describe qualitatively the phase transitions. These theories...
This textbook provides an exposition of equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase...
This comprehensive and yet approachable textbook emphasizes a few fundamental principles and extracts from them a wealth of information. This approach enables the authors to unify an enormous and diverse subject which might at first appear too disjointed.
This comprehensive and yet approachable textbook emphasizes a few fundamental principles and extracts from them a wealth of information. This approach...
It then focuses on the electronic transport and optical properties of semiconductor compounds, size quantization and the analysis of abrupt p-n junctions where a full analysis of the fundamental properties of intrinsic and doped semiconductors is given.
It then focuses on the electronic transport and optical properties of semiconductor compounds, size quantization and the analysis of abrupt p-n juncti...
With an emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, this volume introduces lasers and quantum optics. It focuses on the structure of molecules and their spectroscopy as well as on collision physics as the continuum counterpart to bound molecular states.
With an emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, this volume introduces lasers and quantum optics. It focuses on the structure of molecules and...
This book is an introduction to the theory, practice, and implementation of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, a powerful computational fluid dynamics method that is steadily gaining attention due to its simplicity, scalability, extensibility, and simple handling of complex geometries.
This book is an introduction to the theory, practice, and implementation of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, a powerful computational fluid dynamics...
This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics. As in previous editions the preparation of surfaces and thin films, their atomic and morphological structure, their vibronic and electronic properties as well as fundamentals of adsorption are treated. Because of their importance in modern information technology and nanostructure research, particular emphasis is paid to electronic surface and interface states, semiconductor space charge layers and heterostructures. A special chapter of the book is devoted to collective phenomena at...
This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics. As in previous editions the preparation...
The field of nonlinear dynamics and chaos has grown very much over the last few decades and is becoming more and more relevant in different disciplines. This book presents a clear and concise introduction to the field of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, suitable for graduate students in mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, and in natural sciences in general. It provides a thorough and modern introduction to the concepts of Hamiltonian dynamical systems' theory combining in a comprehensive way classical and quantum mechanical description. It covers a wide range of topics usually not...
The field of nonlinear dynamics and chaos has grown very much over the last few decades and is becoming more and more relevant in different discipl...
This well-illustrated book presents many applications of special relativity, from particle physics to astrophysics, to Sagnac gyrometers and GPS, as well as mathematical developments such as the detailed analysis of the Lorentz group and its Lie algebra.
This well-illustrated book presents many applications of special relativity, from particle physics to astrophysics, to Sagnac gyrometers and GPS, as w...
This textbook presents an exposition of stochastic dynamics and irreversibility. It comprises the principles of probability theory and the stochastic dynamics in continuous spaces, described by Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations, and in discrete spaces, described by Markov chains and master equations. Special concern is given to the study of irreversibility, both in systems that evolve to equilibrium and in nonequilibrium stationary states. Attention is also given to the study of models displaying phase transitions and critical phenomena both in thermodynamic equilibrium and out of...
This textbook presents an exposition of stochastic dynamics and irreversibility. It comprises the principles of probability theory and the stochastic ...
