This exhaustive survey is the product of a four-year effort by leading researchers in the field to produce both a readable introduction and a yardstick for the upcoming experiments using heavy ion collisions that will examine the properties of nuclear matter.
This exhaustive survey is the product of a four-year effort by leading researchers in the field to produce both a readable introduction and a yardstic...
This book provides an overview of solar wind turbulence from both the theoretical and observational perspective. It argues that the interplanetary medium offers the best opportunity to directly study turbulent fluctuations in collisionless plasmas. In fact, during expansion, the solar wind evolves towards a state characterized by large-amplitude fluctuations in all observed parameters, which resembles, at least at large scales, the well-known hydrodynamic turbulence.
This text starts with historical references to past observations and experiments on turbulent flows. It then...
This book provides an overview of solar wind turbulence from both the theoretical and observational perspective. It argues that the interplanetary ...
This book disseminates basic aspects of modern spectral computational methods, which are not generally taught in traditional courses. The main advantage of these methods is that they take into account all available information at the same time, rather only the information available at a limited number of meshpoints. That leads to more complicated matrix equations, but the elegance, speed, and accuracy of the method more than compensates for this drawback. The method consists in expanding the function to be calculated into a set of appropriate basis functions (generally orthogonal...
This book disseminates basic aspects of modern spectral computational methods, which are not generally taught in traditional courses. The main adva...
The aim of this book is to serve as a reference work which not only reviews the progress made since the early days of pulsar astronomy, but especially focuses on questions such as: "What have we learned about the subject and how did we learn it?"
The aim of this book is to serve as a reference work which not only reviews the progress made since the early days of pulsar astronomy, but especially...
Opening with an overview of the pioneering work of Prof. Gabriele Venziano on string theory and nonperturbative QCD, this volume examines the impact of this and similar early work. The book honors Prof. Veneziano on his retirement from CERN.
Opening with an overview of the pioneering work of Prof. Gabriele Venziano on string theory and nonperturbative QCD, this volume examines the impact o...
These lecture notes provide a systematic introduction to matrix models of quantum field theories with non-commutative and fuzzy geometries.
The book initially focuses on the matrix formulation of non-commutative and fuzzy spaces, followed by a description of the non-perturbative treatment of the corresponding field theories. As an example, the phase structure of non-commutative phi-four theory is treated in great detail, with a separate chapter on the multitrace approach. The last chapter offers a general introduction to non-commutative gauge theories, while two appendices round out...
These lecture notes provide a systematic introduction to matrix models of quantum field theories with non-commutative and fuzzy geometries.
Silicene and related materials are currently among the most actively studied materials, especially following the first experimental synthesis on substrates in 2012. The book then presents the atomic and electronic structure of free-standing silicene, followed by an account of the experimental realization of silicene on substrates.
Silicene and related materials are currently among the most actively studied materials, especially following the first experimental synthesis on subst...
This book is a concise primer on galactic radio astronomy for undergraduate and graduate students, and provides wide coverage of galactic astronomy and astrophysics such as the physics of interstellar matter and the dynamics and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy and galaxies. Radio astronomy and its technological development have led to significant progress in galactic astronomy and contributed to understanding interstellar matter and galactic structures.
The book begins with the fundamental physics of radio-wave radiation, i.e., black body radiation, thermal emission, synchrotron...
This book is a concise primer on galactic radio astronomy for undergraduate and graduate students, and provides wide coverage of galactic astronomy...
This course-based primer offers readers a concise introduction to the description of quantum mechanical systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom - and quantum spin systems in particular - using the operator algebraic approach. Here, the observables are modeled using elements of some operator algebra, usually a C*-algebra. This text introduces readers to the framework and the necessary mathematical tools without assuming much mathematical background, making it more accessible than advanced monographs.
The book also highlights the usefulness of the so-called...
This course-based primer offers readers a concise introduction to the description of quantum mechanical systems with infinitely many degrees of fre...
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 wrote: The discovery of the Higgs boson and the non-observation of new particles or exotic phenomena have made a big step towards completing the experimental confirmation of the standard model of fundamental particle interactions. It is thus a good moment for me to collect, update and improve my graduate lecture notes on quantum chromodynamics and the theory...
With this graduate-level primer, the principles of the standard model of particle physics receive a particular skillful, personal and enduring exposit...
