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edited by Herwig Schopper (University of Hamburg, Germany & CERN) &

Luigi Di Lella (University of Pisa, Italy & CERN)

edited by Oliver Brüning & Lucio Rossi (CERN)

by Ethan Siegel (Lewis & Clark College, USA)

edited by Kirk W Madison (University of British Columbia,

Canada), Kai Bongs (University of Birmingham, UK), Lincoln D Carr (Colorado School of Mines, USA), Ana Maria Rey (JILA, University of

Colorado, USA) & Hui Zhai (Tsinghua University, China)

edited by Mary D Archer (Imperial College, UK) &

Martin A Green (University of New South Wales, Australia)

by Kenneth W Ford by Freeman J Dyson (IAS, Princeton)

by Dan Green (Fermilab)

edited by Toshihide Maskawa (Nagoya University, Japan)

by Mary K Gaillard (UC Berkeley) edited by Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) & Murray Gell-Mann

(Santa Fe Institute, USA)

by Fabien Bretenaker (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, France) & Nicolas Treps (University Pierre

and Marie Curie, France)

by C Wendell Horton, Jr (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

& Sadruddin Benkadda (Aix Marseille University-CNRS, France)

by Crispin Gardiner (University of Otago, New Zealand) & Peter Zoller

(University of Innsbruck, Austria)

by Reinhard Honegger & Alfred Rieckers (University of

Tübingen, Germany)

edited by Belal E Baaquie (NUS, Singapore), Kerson Huang (MIT),

Michael E Peskin (Stanford) & K K Phua (NTU, Singapore)

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Physics Catalogue 2016

Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Centuryedited by Oliver Brüning & Stephen Myers (CERN)

The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators have been a key tool in developing our understanding of the elementary particles and the forces that govern their interactions. This book describes the past 100 years of accelerator development with a special focus on the technological advancements in the field, the connection of the various accelerator projects to key developments and discoveries in the Standard Model, how accelerator technologies open the door to other applications in medicine and industry, and finally presents an outlook of future accelerator projects for the coming decades.

Readership: Undergraduate students and professionals in accelerator physics.

600pp Feb 2016978-981-4436-39-7 US$158 £104978-981-4436-40-3(ebook) US$205 £135

Reviews of Accelerator Science and TechnologyVolume 7: Collidersedited by Alexander W Chao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) & Weiren Chou (Fermilab)

Over the past decades, colliders defined the energy frontier in particle physics. Different types of colliers — proton–proton, proton–antiproton, electron–positron, electron–proton, electron-ion and ion-ion colliders — have played complementary roles in fully mapping out the constituents and forces in the Standard Model (SM). We are now at a point where all predicted SM constituents of matter and forces have been found, and all the latest ones were found at colliders. Colliders also play a critical role in advancing beam physics, accelerator research and technology development. It is timely that RAST Volume 7 is dedicated to Colliders.

Readership: Physicists and engineers in accelerator science and industry.

248pp Apr 2015978-981-4651-48-6 US$108 £71978-981-4651-49-3(ebook) US$140 £92

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Engines of DiscoveryA Century of Particle AcceleratorsRevised and Expanded Editionby Andrew Sessler (LBNL) & Edmund Wilson (CERN)

“This book will stand as part of Andrew Sessler’s legacy to future generations. The hope is that it will inspire budding young scientists and engineers today, for they are the future of the field.”

CERN

Readership: Scientists, research physicists, engineers and administrators at accelerator laboratories; general readers; undergraduates and graduates in physics, electrical engineering and the history of science.

280pp Apr 2014978-981-4417-18-1 US$88 £58978-981-4417-19-8(pbk) US$48 £32978-981-4417-20-4(ebook) US$114 £75

Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics — Vol. 23

60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveriesedited by Herwig Schopper (University of Hamburg, Germany & CERN) & Luigi Di Lella (University of Pisa, Italy & CERN)

The book is a compilation of the most important experimental results achieved during the past 60 years at CERN - from the mid-1950s to the latest discovery of the Higgs particle. Covering the results from the early accelerators at CERN to those most recent at the LHC, the contents provide an excellent review of the achievements of this outstanding laboratory. Not only presented is the impressive scientific progress achieved during the past six decades, but also demonstrated is the special way in which successful international collaboration exists at CERN.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in elementary particle physics, and historians of science.

420pp Sep 2015978-981-4644-14-3 US$98 £65978-981-4663-18-2(pbk) US$48 £32978-981-4644-15-0(ebook) US$127 £85

Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics

The High Luminosity Large Hadron ColliderThe New Machine for Illuminating the Mysteries of Universeedited by Oliver Brüning & Lucio Rossi (CERN)

The book consists of a series of chapters touching on all issues of technology and design, and each chapter can be read independently. The first few chapters give a summary of the whole project, of the physics motivation and of the accelerator challenges. The subsequent chapters cover the novel technologies, the new configurations of LHC and of its injectors as well as the expected operational implications. Altogether, the book brings the reader to the heart of technologies for the leading edge accelerator and gives insights into next generation hadron colliders.

Readership: Researchers and graduates in accelerator physics and engineering.

300pp Aug 2015978-981-4675-46-8 US$98 £65978-981-4678-14-8(pbk) US$48 £32978-981-4675-47-5(ebook) US$127 £85

Notable BacklistStatistical Methods in Experimental Physics (2nd Edition) Frederick James (CERN, Switzerland)

Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering (2nd Edition) Alexander Wu Chao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) et al.

Beam Dynamics in High Energy Particle Accelerators Andrzej Wolski (University of Liverpool, Uk)

Accelerator Physics (Third Edition) S Y Lee (Indiana University, USA)

An Introduction to the Physics of Particle Accelerators (2nd Edition) Mario Conte (Infn, Italy) et al.

Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology — Volume 6: Accelerators for High Intensity Beams Alexander W Chao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) et al.

Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology, Volume 1 Alexander W Chao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) et al.

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Wave Momentum and Quasi-Particles in Physical Acousticsby Gérard A Maugin & Martine Rousseau (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

This unique volume presents an original approach to physical acoustics with additional emphasis on the most useful surface acoustic waves on solids. The study is based on foundational work of Lé on Brillouin, and application of the celebrated invariance theorem of Emmy Noether to an element of volume that is representative of the wave motion.

This original book offers an innovative vision and treatment of the problems of wave propagation in deformable solids. It opens up new horizons in the theoretical and applied facets of physical acoustics.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in applied physics and mathematics, as well as accousticians.

252pp May 2015978-981-4663-78-6 US$95 £63978-981-4663-79-3(ebook) US$124 £82

One Hundred Years of General RelativityFrom Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity (In 2 Volumes)edited by Wei-Tou Ni (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects of the theory: genesis, solutions and energy; empirical foundations; gravitational waves; cosmology; and quantum gravity.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in general relativity.

1100pp Oct 2016978-981-4635-12-7(Set) US$248 £164

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An Introduction to Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics2nd Editionby Michael John Thompson (High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)

This book provides an introduction for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students to the field of astrophysical fluid dynamics. No previous knowledge of fluid dynamics is assumed. After establishing the basic equations of fluid dynamics and the physics relevant to an astrophysical application, a variety of topics in the field are addressed. There is also a chapter introducing the reader to numerical methods. Appendices list useful physical constants and astronomical quantities, and provide handy reference material on Cartesian tensors, vector calculus in polar coordinates, self-adjoint eigenvalue problems, and JWKB theory. It contains expanded material and includes exercises.

Readership: Graduate students and advanced-level undergraduates in astronomy, astrophysics, applied mathematics, and physics.

350pp Dec 2016978-1-84816-644-8 US$60 £37

Centennial of General RelativityA Celebrationedited by César Augusto Zen Vasconcellos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil & ICRANet, Italy)

To celebrate 100 years of general relativity, World Scientific publishes this volume with a dual goal: to assess the current status of the field of general relativity in broad terms, and discuss future directions. The volume thus consists of broad overviews summarizing major developments over the past decades and their perspective contributions.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the field of astrophysics and cosmology.

300pp Dec 2016978-981-4699-65-5 US$88 £58978-981-4699-66-2(ebook) US$114 £75

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:: BestsellerMajor American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions - Physics - Volume 0

Problems and Solutions on Electromagnetism edited by Yung-Kuo Lim (NUS, Singapore)

The material for these volumes has been selected from the past twenty years’ examination questions for graduate students at University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, MIT, State University of New York at Buffalo, Princeton University and University of Wisconsin.

Readership: Graduate, undergraduate students and physics instructors.

676pp Mar 1993978-981-02-0625-3 US$119 £78978-981-02-0626-0(pbk) US$58 £38

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Fiber Amplifiers and Fiber Lasers by Niloy K Dutta (University of Connecticut, USA)

This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of design and applications of rare-earth-doped fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers. Optical fiber amplifier is an important component for optical communication systems. It has applications as pre-amplifiers, post-amplifiers, and repeater amplifiers in evolving optical networks. Optical fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers are also important for high power industrial applications and sensors. The applications of fiber amplifiers were first studied in the late 1980’s, since then the diversity and scope of such applications have been steadily growing.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates and graduate students in Physics and Electrical Engineering, practicing engineers, and non-experts interested in all-optical network technologies.

448pp Nov 2014978-981-4630-38-2 US$139 £92


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Indirect Effects of Dark Matter Physicsedited by Maxim Yu Khlopov (Virtual Institute of Astroparticle Physics, France, Center for Cosmoparticle Physics & Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute, Russia)

The volume contains a collection of reviews covering various indirect cosmological, astrophysical and physical effects of dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model. In many cases direct experimental studies of the physics of the dark matter is complicated and even impossible, which makes its indirect probes the unique source of information. The reviews contain important information on possible features of dark matter physics, stimulating further development of experimental probes and theoretical studies of extensions of the Standard Model of elementary particles as well as of the structure and evolution of the Universe.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and astronomy; non-experts interested in the modern ideas on new physics and the structure and evolution of the Universe.

300pp Oct 2016978-981-4635-74-5 US$98 £65978-981-4635-75-2(ebook) US$127 £85

The Formation and Early Evolution of Star Clustersby Simon Goodwin & Nate Bastian (University of Exeter, UK)

In the past decade, our picture of star and cluster formation has changed hugely and we now believe that many — if not most — stars form in clusters, and the process of star and cluster formation is extremely rapid and dynamic. This book provides an overview of our current understanding of the formation and evolution of star clusters and it covers our understanding of how gas turns into stars and the structure and kinematics of very young star forming regions. The authors then describe how we think these young star forming regions evolve into clusters before destroying themselves. Finally, the book demonstrates our current understanding of young clusters in external galaxies, especially starbursts, and how these populations could evolve into globular cluster systems.

Readership: Academic, graduate students and professionals interested in astronomy and astrophysics.

200pp Aug 2016978-1-84816-670-7 US$75 £50

The Physics of Low-Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Gaseous Planetsby Gilles Chabrier (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France) & Jonathan Lunine (University of Arizona, USA)

This book provides a complete introduction and overview to the rapidly expanding field of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. The following topics are covered: observational techniques, surveys, studies of individual objects, theoretical properties of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and giant planets, the contribution of these objects to the Galactic mass-budget, processes that lead to formation of planets versus white dwarfs, implication of such objects for the occurrence of Earth-like planets, and future prospects in the field. The book enables readers to gain a solid scientific background in all the essential aspects of this exciting new area of astronomical research.

Readership: Graduate students in physics and astronomy; researchers in astronomy.

250pp Aug 2016978-981-4390-31-6 US$88 £58

Classical and Quantum CosmologyThe Einstenian Picture of the Universeby Giovanni Montani (ENEA, Italy), Francesco Cianfrani (University of Wrocław, Poland) & Riccardo Benini (ICRA, Italy)

This volumes gives a complete description of the Universe’s birth and evolution, based on the implementation of General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory. The presentation has a pedagogical profile and aims to make accessible, at a Master’s Degree level, a wide number of subtle topics concerning the thermal history of the Universe. This also includes the discussion of themes still open to the scientific debate, such as the quantum nature of the cosmological singularity and the nature of the dark components of the Universe. To this aim, this volume is divided into three parts, the first two being dedicated to introducing the paradigms of Einsteinian gravitation and quantum physics. These are necessary for a self-consistent presentation of the third part which fully develops the analysis of the cosmological framework. The first two parts have their own independent value as compact, pedagogical introductions to the corresponding areas, and are completed by relevant monographic appendices. In this respect, the picture outlined in the two chapters devoted to quantum physics of gravitation is distinguished by the clear and complete synthesis it offers to the reader.

Readership: Students and researchers in astrophysics, especially Master’s Degree students.

450pp Mar 2016978-981-4518-66-6 US$134 £88978-981-4518-67-3(ebook) US$174 £115

Studying Distant GalaxiesA Handbook of Methods and Analysesby François Hammer, Mathieu Puech, Hector Flores (Paris Observatory, France) & Myriam Rodrigues (European Southern Observatory, Chile)

Twenty years ago, little was known about how galaxies formed and evolved. Since the first systematic survey of distant galaxies in the 1990s, a lot of resources have been devoted to similar surveys. Distant galaxies are indeed the witnesses of the various stages of galaxy evolution and formation over several billion years, encompassing over 95% of the Universe age.

However, we are still far from completely understanding what physical processes dominate galaxy formation and evolution. In fact, a considerable number of effects linked to the observational procedure and to cosmology are limiting the interpretation of the observations, and, above all, the necessary link that has to be established between present-day and distant galaxies. In this book, we propose to review the overall methodology that is required to interpret observations of distant galaxies, and to derive physical quantities from them.

Readership: Professionals and students in the field of astrophysics and cosmology.

300pp May 2016978-1-84816-944-9 US$108 £71

The Structure and Evolution of Starsby John J Eldridge (University of Auckland, New Zealand) & Christopher A Tout (Cambridge)

In this book, the basic equations of a spherical star are derived in detail, the modes of energy transport, the equation of state, the physics of the opacity sources and the nuclear reactions are explained. Approximate solutions of the equations for stellar structure are given. Attention is given to the virial theorem, polytropic gas spheres and homology principles. The procedure for numerical solution of the equations is outlined.

Readership: Final year undergraduates, first-year PhD students and post-doctoral researchers in the field of astrophysics or astronomy.

240pp Apr 2016978-1-78326-579-4 US$88 £58978-1-78326-580-0(pbk) US$48 £32

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Challenging Routes in Quantum Cosmologyby Paulo Vargas Moniz (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)

The aim of this book is to convey a broad perspective of what quantum cosmology is and how it can be a relevant field of research in the 21st century. A series of challenges (or research directions to follow) are provided, in the form of chapters, as the means of forwarding some of the main elements of quantum cosmology. This is therefore a more ‘practical’ oriented book, where a reasonable amount of technical features are presented in a compact appendix.

Contents: Standing Point: Introduction Point; A Reader’s Digest; Routes: Degeneracy of Solutions; Landscape and Selection Rules; Singularity Avoidance; Observational Issues; Wheeler–deWitt Equation and Hilbert Space Structure; Chaos and Integrability; Elements from Strings and Loops; Other Routes; Appendices: Hamiltonian Formulation; Superspace Quantization; Semi-Classical Gravity; Minisuperspace; Boundary Conditions; ‘Predictions’ from Quantum Cosmology

Readership: Graduate students and professionals in cosmology.

230pp Jun 2017978-981-4415-06-4 US$88 £58978-981-4415-07-1(ebook) US$114 £75

Cosmological Implications of Heisenberg’s Principleby Julio A Gonzalo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

The aim of this book is to analyze the all important implications of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle for a finite universe with very large mass-energy content such as ours. The earlier and main contributors to the formulation of Quantum Mechanics are briefly reviewed regarding the formulation of Heisenberg’s Principle. Taking advantage of the rigorous solutions of Einstein’s cosmological equation for a flat, open and mixed universe of finite mass, the most recent and accurate data on the “age” (to) and the expansion rate (Ho) of the universe and their implications are reconsidered.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in cosmology and theoretical physics.

200pp Jul 2015978-981-4675-37-6 US$58 £38978-981-4675-38-3(ebook) US$75 £49

Beyond the GalaxyHow Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way and Discovered the Entire Universeby Ethan Siegel (Lewis & Clark College, USA)

Beyond the Galaxy traces our journey from an ancient, Earth-centered Universe all the way to our modern, 21st century understanding of the cosmos. Touching on not only what we know but how we know it, Ethan Siegel takes us to the very frontiers of modern astrophysics and cosmology, from the birth of our Universe to its ultimate fate, and everything in between.

Readership: General public interested in astronomy, astrophysics and/or cosmology.

300pp Oct 2015978-981-4667-23-4 US$98 £65978-981-4667-16-6(pbk) US$38 £25978-981-4667-17-3(ebook) US$127 £85

From Ordered to Chaotic Motion in Celestial Mechanicsby Yi-Sui Sun & Li-Yong Zhou (Nanjing University, China)

This book provides a brief introduction to some basic but important problems in celestial mechanics, and particularly in the few-body problem, such as the permissible and forbidden region of motion, the evolution of moment of inertia of a system, and the orbital stability of asteroids in the solar system. All these are based on some main results in the authors’ research works, which are related to the qualitative method of celestial mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. Some of these works are interdisciplinary, involving celestial mechanics, nonlinear dynamics and other disciplines. The book covers a variety of topics for dynamics in the solar system, including the comets, asteroids, planetary rings, Trojan asteroids, etc.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in astrophysics, astronomy, or celestial mechanics.

250pp Oct 2015978-981-4630-54-2 US$95 £63978-981-4630-55-9(ebook) US$124 £82

Vindication of Cosmic BiologyTribute to Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001)edited by Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (University of Buckingham, UK)

This volume opens with recent review articles pointing incontrovertibly towards our cosmic heritage, followed by a collection of published articles tracing the development of the theory throughout the years. The discovery that microorganisms are incredibly resistant to the harshest conditions of space, along with the detection of billions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone, makes it virtually impossible to maintain that life on one planet will not interact with life elsewhere. Fred Hoyle’s work in “panspermiology” may in the fullness of time come to be regarded as his most important scientific contribution.

Readership: University students, researchers and historian of science interested in astrobiology or the work of Sir Fred Hoyle.

400pp Jul 2015978-981-4675-25-3 US$128 £84978-981-4675-26-0(ebook) US$166 £109

De Sitter Invariant Special Relativityby Mu-Lin Yan (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Einstein’s Special Relativity (E-SR) is the cornerstone of physics. De Sitter invariant SR (dS/AdS-SR) is a natural extension of E-SR, hence it relates to the foundation of physics. This book provides a description to dS/AdS-SR in terms of Lagrangian-Hamiltonian formulation associated with spacetime metric of inertial reference frames.

One of the outstanding features of the book is as follows: All discussions on SR are in the inertial reference frames. This is a requirement due to the first principle of SR theory. The descriptions on dS/AdS-SR in this book satisfy this principle. For the curved spacetime in dS/AdS-SR theory, it is highly non-trivial.

Readership: Students and professionals who are interested in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter invariant Special Relativity.

280pp Aug 2015978-981-4618-70-0 US$88 £58978-981-4618-71-7(ebook) US$114 £75

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Exploring the Invisible UniverseFrom Black Holes to Superstringsby Belal E Baaquie & Frederick H Willeboordse (NUS, Singapore)

Exploring the Invisible Universe covers the gamut of topics in advanced modern physics. Discussed in a non-technical manner are topics dominated by invisible things — such as Black Holes and Superstrings as well as Fields, Gravitation, the Standard Model, Cosmology, Relativity, the Origin of Elements, Stars and Planetary Evolution, and more. Just giving the answer, as so many books do, is really not telling anything at all. To truly answer the “why” questions of nature, one needs to follow the chain of reasoning that scientists have used to come to the conclusions they have. The explanations are rigorous and straight to the point, and a large number of detailed figures, specially developed for this book and found nowhere else, convey insights that are otherwise difficult to follow.

Readership: Students and general public with knowledge of high school level physics and mathematics, who are interested in theoretical physics including cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics.

488pp May 2015978-981-4618-67-0 US$48 £32978-981-4618-68-7(ebook) US$62 £42

Theory of Relativityby Fayyazuddin, Riazuddin (National Centre for Physics, Pakistan) & Muhammad Jamil Aslam (Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan)

This volume is to facilitate undergraduate and graduate students in theory of relativity and help them in their studies of High Energy Physics and Cosmology. The presentation has been kept simple and sufficient details have been provided in order to facilitate the understanding of the subject. The problems have also been selected to clarify the presentation and solutions of selected problems are given for better understanding of the contents.

Readership: Graduates in astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology and theory of relativity.

228pp May 2015978-981-4641-89-0 US$58 £38

Where Did We Come From?Life of an Astrobiologistby Chandra Wickramasinghe (Buckingham Center for Astrobiology, University of Buckingham, UK & University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)edited by Kamala Wickramasinghe

The life story of this book spans many stages of the life and scientific career of one of the foremost astrophysicists/astrobiologists of our times. Starting from his boyhood days, the book describes the author’s scientific work over the past 50 years, the ground-breaking discoveries he had made, the controversies generated in the scientific community, and the gradual acceptance of his discoveries. Written in lucid non-technical language it captures the essence of the author’s research at Cambridge, his lifelong collaborations with the legendary astronomer of the 20th century, Sir Fred Hoyle, the birth of the subject of astrobiology which they arguably “invented” in 1980, and his continuing ground-breaking research carried out while he was a Professor at Cardiff and later at Buckingham. The book traces the various influences that guided the author through his career, including that of his father who was a Cambridge Wrangler, and the profound influence of Buddhism in his early life.

Readership: Astrophysicists, astrobiologists, philosophers and the general public.


Where Physics Went Wrongby Bernard Lavenda (University of Camerino, Italy)

The book points out what has gone wrong with physics since Einstein’s formulation of this theory of general relativity a century ago. It points out inconsistencies and fallacies in the standard model of the big bang and the inflationary scenario which was supposed to have overcome those shortcomings, the evolution of string theory from a theory of the strong interaction to a theory of gravitation and quantum mechanics which has not produced a single verifiable prediction, and what it has accomplished is reaffirming wrong results like the entropy of a black hole, which is not an entropy at all. There have even been attempts to demote gravity to an emergent phenomenon with catastrophic effects.

Readership: For all science enthusiasts especially in the area of physics.


Black HolesA Student Text 3rd Editionby Derek Raine & Edwin Thomas (University of Leicester, UK)

This book provides an accessible introduction to the fascinating and topical subject of black holes. It bridges the gap between popular non-mathematical expositions and advanced research texts, using simple undergraduate level calculations and the most basic knowledge of relativity to explain current research. This means the theory can be understood by a wide audience of physicists, including those who are not necessarily interested in learning higher-level mathematical techniques.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate students and first-year postgraduates in fields of astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology.

300pp Oct 2014978-1-78326-481-0 US$82 £54978-1-78326-482-7(pbk) US$39 £26

The Formation of the Solar SystemTheories Old and New 2nd Editionby Michael Woolfson (University of York, UK)

This fully-updated second edition remains the only truly detailed exploration of the origins of our Solar System, written by an authority in the field. Unlike other authors, Michael Woolfson focuses on the formation of the solar system, engaging the reader in an intelligent yet accessible discussion of the development of ideas about how the Solar System formed from ancient times to the present.

Readership: Professionals and general readers interested in astronomy and cosmology.

440pp Sep 2014978-1-78326-521-3 US$99 £65978-1-78326-522-0(pbk) US$49 £32

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Astronomical SpectroscopyAn Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Astronomical Spectra2nd Editionby Jonathan Tennyson (University College London, UK)

“The pace is suitable for a novice, the explanations are clear and the rich level of black and white diagrams are used very well to augment and illustrate the text ... For undergraduates in astrophysics, physics in general, and even chemistry, Tennyson’s book is to be recommended. Even if not used as a primary text it would be useful to augment atomic (and even molecular) spectroscopy courses with applications and examples.”

Contemporary Physics

Readership: Students and professionals working in the fields of astrophysics.

236pp Jan 2011978-981-4291-96-5 US$65 £43978-981-4291-97-2(pbk) US$40 £26

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Astrophysics and the Evolution of the Universeby Leonard S Kisslinger (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

The aim of this book is to teach undergraduate college or university students the basic physics concepts needed to understand the mathematics which describes the evolution of the universe, and based on this to teach the astrophysical theories behind evolution from very early times to the present. The book does not require students to have extensive knowledge of mathematics, like calculus, and includes material that explains concepts such as velocity, acceleration, and force. Based on this, fascinating topics such as Dark Matter, measuring Dark Energy via supernovae velocities, and the creation of mass via the Higgs mechanism are explained. All college students with an interest in science, especially astronomy, without extensive mathematical backgrounds should be able to use and learn from this book. Adults interested in topics like dark energy and the Higgs boson, which are in the news, can make use of this book as well.

Readership: Anyone with a basic knowledge of mathematics and an interest in astronomy.

220pp May 2014978-981-4520-90-4 US$48 £32

Advances of Atoms and Molecules in Strong Laser Fieldsedited by Yunquan Liu (Peking University, China)

This volume presents the latest advancements and future perspectives of atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics and its vital role in modern sciences and technologies. The chapters are devoted to a wide range of quantum systems, with an emphasis on the understanding of ionization, high-harmonic generation, molecular orbital imaging and coherent control phenomena originating from light-matter interactions. The book overviews current research landscape and highlight major scientific trends in AMO physics interfacing with interdisciplinary sciences. It may be particularly interesting for young researchers working on establishing their scientific interests and goals.

Readership: This book is most suitable for the active scientists and graduates in strong-field community and also for other scientists who work with the ultrafast lasers in biology and chemistry.

300pp Oct 2015978-981-4696-38-8 US$98 £65978-981-4696-39-5(ebook) US$127 £85

Interdisciplinary Research on Particle Collisions and Quantitative Spectroscopy — Vol. 2

Fast Collisions of Light Ions with MatterCharge Exchange and Ionizationby Dževad Belkić (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

The present book is aimed to match the growing demand from theory and experiment, as motivated by high relevance for fundamental physics as well as for other fields such as fusion, medicine, etc. The overall emphasis in this book is not on compilation of cross sections, but rather on collisional mechanisms involving ions and atoms at high non-relativistic energies. The principal outlines for extensions of the analyzed theories’ molecular targets (e.g. water) are also presented for the needs of hadron therapy.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers working on several branches of science and technology: radiation physics, accelerator-based physics, new sources of energy, high-temperature fusion of light ions, and cancer therapy.

375pp Jan 2016978-981-4366-04-5 US$110 £73

An Introduction to the Methods of Relativistic Molecular Quantum Mechanicsby Stephen Wilson

Molecular electronic structure calculations have assumed increasing importance in a wide range of research fields. Applications abound in fields as diverse as molecular electronics and pharmacology, radioastronomy and organic synthesis. The vast majority of contemporary molecular electronic structure studies are performed within the framework of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. However, recent years have seen a growing recognition of the importance of relativistic effects in molecules, especially in systems containing heavy atoms. This has fuelled the development of methods for relativistic molecular electronic structure studies. This book describes the essential theoretical and computational apparatus for a relativistic quantum chemistry.

Readership: Chemists and physicists.

250pp Dec 2016978-981-02-2444-8 US$77 £53

Notable BacklistPlanets: Ours and Others — From Earth to Exoplanets Thérèse Encrenaz (Paris Observatory, France)

Physics from the Edge: A New Cosmological Model for Inertia Michael Edward McCulloch (University of Plymouth, UK)

The Search for our Cosmic Ancestry Chandra Wickramasinghe (Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, UK)

Birth, Evolution and Death of Stars James Lequeux (Paris Observatory, France)

Dark Matter and Cosmic Web Story Jaan Einasto (Tartu Observatory, Estonia)

Dark Energy Miao Li, Xiao-Dong Li, Shuang Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) et al.

ATOMIC PHYSICS

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Macroscopic Electrodynamics Instructor’s Solutions Guideby Walter Wilcox (Baylor University, USA) & Chris Thron (Texas A&M University, USA)

This instructor’s solutions guide is produced for our graduate electrodynamics textbook, “Macroscopic Electrodynamics”. Notice the use of the word “guide” rather than “manual”. We believe a step-by-step solutions manual is not suitable for this advanced-level text. A detailed solutions manual would be unwieldy given that there are about 300 substantial problems in the text. We do not think university-level instructors require such a step-by-step manual and should be free to attempt their own innovative solutions. In the guide, we will suggest basic approaches and helpful starting points as well as give some crucial intermediate steps and the final result, but we will leave it up to the instructors to fully complete the solutions. Thus, web plagiarism will be more difficult to commit and more easily identifiable, and this will extend the useful life of the text.

Readership: For advanced undergraduates and graduate students covering the field of electrodynamics.

200pp Jan 2016978-981-4616-65-2 US$48 £32

Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules — Vol. 3

Annual Review of Cold Atoms and MoleculesVolume 3edited by Kirk W Madison (University of British Columbia, Canada), Kai Bongs (University of Birmingham, UK), Lincoln D Carr (Colorado School of Mines, USA), Ana Maria Rey (JILA, University of Colorado, USA) & Hui Zhai (Tsinghua University, China)

The aim of this book is to contain review articles describing the latest theoretical and experimental developments in the field of cold atoms and molecules. Our hope is that this series will promote research by both highlighting recent breakthroughs and by outlining some of the most promising research directions in the field.

Readership: Research scientists including graduate students and upper level undergraduate students.

264pp May 2015978-981-4667-73-9 US$98 £65978-981-4667-74-6(ebook) US$127 £85

Breaking Paradigms in Atomic and Molecular Physicsby Eugene Oks (Auburn University, USA)

The book presents counterintuitive theoretical results breaking several paradigms of quantum mechanics and providing alternative interpretations of some important phenomena in atomic and molecular physics.

Contents: Role of Singular Solutions of Quantal Equations in Atomic Physics; Classical Description of Crossings of Energy Terms and of Charge Exchange; Classical Stationary States and non-Einsteinian Time Dilation: Generalized Hamiltonian Dynamics (GHD); Underestimated Role of the Singular Spin–Spin Interaction in the Binding Energy of Two-Electron Atoms/Ions; The Last Observed Line in the Spectral Series of Hydrogen Lines in Magnetized Plasmas: Revision of Inglis–Teller Concept; Extrema in Transition Energies Resulting Not in Satellites But in Dips Within Spectral Lines.

Readership: This book would benefit the graduates and researchers who are interested in atomic and molecular physics on both fundamental level and applied level.

196pp May 2015978-981-4619-92-9 US$85 £56978-981-4619-93-6(ebook) US$111 £73

Waves and Rays in SeismologyAnswers to Unasked Questionsby Michael A Slawinski (Memorial University, Canada)

“A study of this book will help the reader to firmly put seismology in the larger context of mathematical physics and to understand its range of validity. I would not like to miss it from my bookshelf.”

Klaus HelbigRijksuniversiteit Utrecht

Readership: Students, professionals, researchers, and laypersons interested in seismology.

270pp Jan 2016978-981-4644-80-8 US$98 £65

Notable BacklistAdvances in Atomic Physics: An Overview Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Collège de France, France & Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France) et al.

Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules — Volume 2 Kirk Madison (University of British Columbia, Canada) et al.

Modern Atomic and Nuclear Physics (Revised Edition) Fujia Yang (Fudan University, China & Nottingham University, UK) et al.

CLASSICAL MECHANICS / ELECTRODYNAMICS

Macroscopic ElectrodynamicsAn Introductory Graduate Treatmentby Walter Wilcox (Baylor University, USA) & Chris Thron (Texas A&M University, USA)

This book emphasizes principles and practical methods of analysis, which are often presented in fresh and original ways. Illustrative examples are carefully chosen to promote the students’physical intuition, and are worked out in detail to give students a thorough grounding in solution techniques. The style is informal yet mathematically sound, and presumes only a basic familiarity with electrodynamics such as may be obtained in a one-semester junior-level undergraduate class.

Readership: For advanced undergraduates and graduate students covering the field of electrodynamics.

800pp Aug 2015978-981-4616-61-4 US$178 £117978-981-4616-62-1(pbk) US$84 £55

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A Modern Approach to Classical Mechanics2nd Editionby Harald Iro (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

In this book we describe the evolution of Classical Mechanics from Newton’s laws via Lagrange’s and Hamilton’s theories with strong emphasis on integrability versus chaotic behavior.

In the second edition of the book we have added historical remarks and references to historical sources important in the evolution of classical mechanics.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, academics, and lecturers who may have used the first edition and would recommend their teaching assistants and students to use an updated edition in their own graduate study.

460pp Jan 2016978-981-4696-28-9 US$128 £84978-981-4704-11-3(pbk) US$58 £38

Lectures on Classical Mechanicsby Berthold-Georg Englert (NUS, Singapore)

These lecture notes cover Classical Mechanics at the level of second-year undergraduates. The book offers comprehensive as well as self-contained material that can be taught in a one-semester course for students with the minimal background knowledge acquired in preuniversity education or in the usual first-year overview. The presentation does not skip the technical details which renders the book particularly well-suited for the self-studying student.

Readership: Second-year university undergraduates, course facilitators, and university lecturers.

376pp May 2015978-981-4678-44-5 US$99 £65978-981-4678-45-2(pbk) US$48 £32

Lectures on Classical Electrodynamicsby Berthold-Georg Englert (NUS, Singapore)

These lecture notes cover classical electrodynamics at the level of advanced undergraduates or postgraduates. There is a strong emphasis on the general features of the electromagnetic field and, in particular, on the properties of electromagnetic radiation. It offers a comprehensive and detailed, as well as self-contained, account of material that can be covered in a one-semester course for students with a solid undergraduate knowledge of basic electricity and magnetism.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in classical electrodynamics.

260pp Sep 2014978-981-4596-92-3 US$88 £58978-981-4596-93-0(pbk) US$46 £30

Big Practical Guide to Computer Simulations2nd Editionby Alexander K Hartmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

“This book is packed with useful information for everyone doing computer simulations. It would have saved me so much time in my earlier work if it had been available then. It should be compulsory reading for students starting off in the field, but experienced workers will also find useful gems, as I did.”

A Peter YoungResearch Professor of Physics

University of California, Santa Cruz

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering or physics. Also experienced researchers in these fields who start with computer simulations.

484pp Apr 2015978-981-4571-76-0 US$108 £71978-981-4571-77-7(pbk) US$62 £41

Notable BacklistFundamental Principles of Classical Mechanics: A Geometrical Perspective Kai S Lam (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)Waves and Particles: Two Essays on Fundamental Physics Roger G Newton (Indiana University, USA)Wavefronts and Rays: As Characteristics and Asymptotics (2nd Edition) Andrej Bó Na (Curtin University, Australia) et al.Waves and Rays in Elastic Continua (3rd Edition) Michael A Slawinski (Memorial University, Canada)

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

An Introduction to Lagrangian Mechanics 2nd Editionby Alain J Brizard (Saint Michael’s College, USA)

Review of the First Edition:

“This book is excellent providing a solid foundation in analytical mechanics. The selection of topics, the analysis used for the description of all the key concepts, the historical description of the very many characters appearing along the development of the theory, including the rigorous mathematical analysis used for the exposition of the different chapters, makes it a very useful textbook. Each chapter ends within a nice collection of interesting exercises intended to be solved by the student … It can also be very useful as a source reference for lecturers in advanced mechanics, by selecting the appropriate sections and adapting them to the level of the students in class.”


Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics.

324pp Nov 2014978-981-4623-61-2 US$98 £65978-981-4623-62-9(pbk) S$58 £38

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Series on Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics - Volume 2

Inverse Methods for Atmospheric Sounding Theory and Practiceby Clive D Rodgers (Oxford)

“In this book, the author provides a well-founded background and solution of the inverse problem.”

Zentralblatt MATH Readership: Physicists, applied mathematicians and interdisciplinary scientists.

256pp Jul 2000978-981-02-2740-1 US$85 £56978-981-281-371-8(ebook) US$110 £73

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Understanding the Superconductivity in Copper Oxidesedited by K Alex Müller (Universität Zürich, Switzerland) & A Bussmann-Holder (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Germany)

The aim of this book is to clarify the situation by adopting a very different approach from the above electronic/magnetic models, where explicitly local dynamical distortions are considered. These are distinctly different from conventional phonons which are a property of the infinite translational invariant symmetric lattice. The local dynamical distortions are shown to account for bulk properties and provide consistent and quantitative agreement with experimental data together with explicit predictions. Selected published experimental and theoretical papers are presented which support the above arguments, but have been ignored on purpose by the originators of the RVB/t-J bubble.

Readership: Researchers in condensed matter physics.

550pp May 2016978-981-4354-83-7 US$180 £117

Series on Photoconversion of Solar Energy — Vol. 4

Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics2nd Editionedited by Mary D Archer (Imperial College, UK)& Martin A Green (University of New South Wales, Australia)

The second edition of Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics, first published in 2001, provides an updated account of the underlying science, technology and market prospects for photovoltaics. All areas have advanced considerably in the decade since the first edition was published, which include: multi-crystalline silicon cell efficiencies having made impressive advances, thin-film CdTe cells having established a decisive market presence, and organic photovoltaics holding out the prospect of economical large-scale power production.

Readership: Physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers, energy analysts, policy makers and other solar energy specialists.

708pp Dec 2014978-1-84816-767-4 US$178 £117978-1-84816-768-1(ebook) US$231 £152

Series on Advances in Statistical Mechanics

Soft Matter Transformations in Culinary Processesby Davide Cassi (Universitàdi Parma, Italy), Pere Castells (Alícia Foundation, Spain) & Fernando Sapina-Navarro (University of Valencia, Spain)

This book chooses the cooking point of view. Cooking is the art of transforming raw materials into accomplished dishes. Therefore, the book aims to systematically analyse culinary processes, i.e. the transformations of food produced by kitchen procedures (cooking, stirring, kneading, etc.) from a physical and a chemical point of view, presenting applications in cooking, from basic and common dishes up to the creations of the world’s greatest chefs.

Readership: Students and professionals interested in science and cooking.

250pp May 2016978-981-4397-30-8 US$88 £58

Solid State Quantum Information — An Advanced TextbookQuantum Aspect of Many-Body Systemsby Vlatko Vedral (Oxford) & Wonmin Son (NUS, Singapore)

This book on solid state physics has been written with an emphasis on recent developments in quantum many-body physics approaches. It starts by covering the classical theory of solids and electrons and describes how this classical model has failed. The authors then present the quantum mechanical model of electrons in a lattice and they also discuss the theory of conductivity. Extensive reviews on the topic are provided in a compact manner so that any non-specialist can follow from the beginning.

Readership: Graduate students in physics and quantum information science.

250pp Apr 2016978-1-84816-764-3 US$68 £44

Electrical and Geometrical Properties of Organic Monolayersby Mitsumasa Iwamoto, Tetsuya Yamamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology,Japan) & Zhong-Can Ou-Yang (Chinese Academy of Science, China)

This book addresses the physical mechanisms involved in the characteristic electrical properties and the geometrical structures that are observed from dipolar monolayers composed of organic molecules by using dielectric physics, electrostatics, the physics of liquid crystal, and soft matter physics. The orientational order parameters, introduced to quantify the orientational structures of monolayers, guide us towards this goal. Dielectric polarizations are spontaneously generated from monolayers because of their orientational structures, and electrostatic energies due to these dielectric polarizations play a key role in forming the geometrical structures that are observed from monolayers. Free energy minimization is a powerful tool to understand the physical mechanisms that stabilize these geometrical structures because of the soft matter nature of monolayers. The approach makes this book unique among the literatures of monolayers.

Readership: This book would be useful for physicists, chemists and electronic engineers of the field to understand their experimental results and to develop new theories.

250pp Jan 2016978-981-4602-97-6 US$88 £58978-981-4602-98-3(ebook) US$114 £75

Many-Body Physics, Topology and Geometryby Siddhartha Sen (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)& Kumar Sankar Gupta (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India)

The book explains concepts and ideas of mathematics and physics that are relevant for advanced students and researchers of condensed matter physics. With this aim, a brief intuitive introduction to many body theory is given as a powerful qualitative tool for understanding complex systems. The important emergent concept of a quasiparticle is then introduced as a way to reduce a many body problem to a single particle quantum problem. Examples of quasiparticles in graphene, superconductors, superfluids and in a topological insulator on a superconductor are discussed.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics and mathematical physics.

220pp Aug 2015978-981-4678-16-2 US$58 £38978-981-4678-17-9(ebook) US$75 £49

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS / SOLID STATE PHYSICS

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Physics in a Mad Worldby M Shifman (University of Minnesota, USA)

This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch–Austrian–German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars’energy is thermonuclear fusion, and also made a number of other important contributions to cosmochemistry and geochemistry.

The second part consists of two essays that narrate the life story of Yuri Golfand, one of the codiscoverers of supersymmetry, a major discovery in theoretical physics in the 20th century.

These personal life stories of two outstanding theorists are interwined with the tragedies of the 20th century and make for compelling reading.

Readership: Physicists and historians of science interested in 20th century events.

300pp Mar 2016978-981-4619-28-8 US$84 £55978-981-4619-29-5(pbk) US$38 £25978-981-4619-30-1(ebook) US$109 £72

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Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets5th Editionby Hagen Kleinert (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

“If you get a copy of Kleinert’s book, you will know that you have the best single book on the subject: the depth of knowledge and exposition is representative of a true master scholar … this book is not only a genuine classic, it is a true bargain.”

Australian Physics

“Kleinert’s book presents the reader with a very complete and very thorough discussion of path integration … a new extensive and, again, rather complete chapter has been added on the use of path integration techniques in the analysis of financial markets. This chapter would do well in any high-level course on stochastic financial models and is a wonderful occasion for candidate mathematical and theoretical physicists to realize what great potential there hides still in the methodologies and techniques that have been developed … It profits from the clarity and conciseness that is also a hallmark of Kleinert’s scientific papers … this volume is highly recommendable for any student considering majoring in theoretical physics or chemistry, and an absolute must for any lecturer in this area … In fact, I don’t know of any excuse not to have your own copy.”

Journal of Statistical Physics

Readership: Students and researchers in theoretical physics.

1624pp May 2009978-981-4273-55-8 US$168 £111978-981-4273-56-5(pbk) US$48 £32978-981-4273-57-2(ebook) US$218 £144

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Lecture Notes on Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physicsby Christopher Mudry (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)

The aim of this book is to introduce a graduate student to selected concepts in condensed matter physics for which the language of field theory is ideally suited. The examples considered in this book are those of superfluidity for weakly interacting bosons, collinear magnetism, and superconductivity. Quantum phase transitions are also treated in the context of quantum dissipative junctions and interacting fermions constrained to one-dimensional position space. The style of presentation is sufficiently detailed and comprehensive that it only presumes familiarity with undergraduate physics.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in field theory in condensed matter physics.

744pp Apr 2014978-981-4449-09-0 US$145 £96978-981-4449-10-6(pbk) US$74 £49

A Modern Course in University Physicsby Fuxiang Han, Shu Zheng & Shufeng Li (Dalian University of Technology, China)

This is a calculus-based textbook on general physics. It contains all the major subjects covered in an intermediate or advanced course on general physics. It aims at the middle to advanced level in general physics. It also embraces the most recent developments in science and technology. Studying general physics with this book, students can have a better understanding of physics principles and a broad view on the applications of physics ideas. Through coherent and humorous elucidation of physics principles, this book tries to make learning general physics a fun and interesting activity.

Readership: Undergraduate students in science/engineering field and physics lecturers.

600pp Jun 2016978-981-4596-96-1 US$148 £98978-981-4596-97-8(pbk) US$78 £51978-981-4596-98-5(ebook) US$192 £127

Problems and Solutions in University Physicsby Fuxiang Han, Shu Zheng & Shufeng Li (Dalian University of Technology, China)

This book is the solution manual to the textbook “A Modern Course in University Physics”. It contains solutions to all the problems in the afore mentioned textbook.

This solution manual is a good companion to the textbook. In this solution manual, we work out every problem carefully and in detail. With this solution manual used in conjunction with the textbook, the reader can understand and grasp the physics ideas more quickly and deeply. Some of the problems are not purely exercises; they contain extension of the materials covered in the textbook. Some of the problems contain problem-solving techniques that are not covered in the textbook.

Readership: Undergraduate students in science/engineering field and physics lecturers.

500pp May 2016978-981-4602-03-7(pbk) US$58 £38

Notable BacklistCrystal Symmetry, Lattice Vibrations, and Optical Spectroscopy of Solids: A Group Theoretical Approach Baldassare di Bartolo (Boston College, USA) et al.

Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale Timothy S Fisher (Purdue University, USA)

Problems in Solid State Physics with Solutions Fuxiang Han (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Quantum Dissipative Systems (Fourth Edition) Ulrich Weiss (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

GENERAL PHYSICS

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Birds and FrogsSelected Papers of Freeman Dyson, 1990–2014by Freeman J Dyson (IAS, Princeton)

This book is a sequel to the volume of selected papers of Dyson up to 1990 that was published by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. The present edition comprises a collection of the most interesting writings of Freeman Dyson, all personally selected by the author, from the period 1990–2014. This invaluable compilation contains unpublished lectures, and surveys many topics in science, mathematics, history and politics, in which Freeman Dyson has been so active and well respected around the world. The most noteworthy is a lecture entitled Birds and Frogs to the American Mathematical Society that describes two kinds of mathematicians with examples from real life.

Readership: Students of physics and mathematics and all members of the general public interested in science.


Is Man to Survive Science?by Jean-Pierre Fillard (University of Montpellier II, France)

In the early 21st century, the advances of science, followed by technology, have been very impressive and opened up hither to unthought-of prospects in every domain. Scientific “Previsionists” believe it will lay the foundation for deep changes in the human being. This is in no way a matter of science fiction but rather rational and foreseeable extrapolations of many recent results in various scientific fields. Will Man become a mutating GMO, a humanoid robot, a hybrid of both? Will his life be extended much longer or even indefinitely? Will he reproduce in vitro in the near future? These are questions we should begin to ask now, for our children will likely experience these changes, but our grandchildren will live in a quite different world.

Readership: This book will be of interest for anyone who is curious about future evolution of homo sapiens and advances of technologies.


The Hope and Vision of J Robert Oppenheimerby Michael Day (Lebanon Valley College, USA)

The book recovers and reconstructs what Oppenheimer said and wrote during the 1940s, 50s and 60s (i.e., his hope and vision) with the goal of identifying what might be of general philosophical interest today. It considers not only Oppenheimer’s thought, but also his life using philosophical ideas developed by contemporary philosophers.

Readership: Historians (especially intellectual and Cold War historians), international relations theorists, physicists, philosophers, and scholars/nuclear policy experts interested in nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Members of the general public interested in Oppenheimer as an individual, or subjects like science and culture, or the crisis generated by nuclear weapons, would also find this book valuable.

250pp Oct 2015978-981-4656-73-3 US$58 £38978-981-4656-74-0(pbk) US$28 £18978-981-4656-75-7(ebook) US$75 £49

Proceedings of the 15th Asian Physics Olympiad15th Asian Physics OlympiadNational University of Singapore, 11–18 May 2014edited by B V R Chowdari (NUS, Singapore)

The Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) is a unique, single-subject, practical and theory-based individual competition in the field of physics. It was developed to provide young Asian students with a platform to display their physics knowledge. It is the celebration of the best in pre-university physics.

The book will serve as a valuable source of interesting and challenging experimental and theoretical topics for young physicists worldwide.

Readership: Students, lecturers and educators interested in high school physics.

244pp Jun 2015978-981-4689-11-3(pbk) US$48 £32978-981-4689-12-0(ebook) US$62 £42

Building the H BombA Personal Historyby Kenneth W Ford

In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with — and relaxed with — scientific giants of that time such as Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and John Wheeler, and here offers illuminating insights into the personalities, the strengths, and the quirks of these men. Well known for his ability to explain physics to nonspecialists, Ford also brings to life the physics of fission and fusion and provides a brief history of nuclear science from the discovery of radioactivity in 1896 to the ten-megaton explosion of “Mike” that obliterated a Pacific Island in 1952.

Readership: A memoir for general readership in the history of science.


More Physics with MATLAB(with Companion Media Pack)by Dan Green (Fermilab)

This text continues the exploration of the use of MATLAB tools and features in visualizing physical processes. The symbolic math packages are important in solving those problems which are amenable to closed form solution, while the numerical packages are used for the remaining problems. The results for the solutions use the MATLAB graphics packages to help visualize the properties of the solutions. User dialogues are designed to allow users to change the input parameters in order to see how the dynamics of the solutions depends on the parameters of the specific problem. In particular movies are used to display the dynamical evolution of solutions in time.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physics.

328pp May 2015978-981-4623-93-3 US$78 £51978-981-4623-94-0(pbk) US$39 £26

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An Introduction to String Theory and D-Brane DynamicsWith Problems and Solutions3rd Editionby Richard J Szabo (Heriot-Watt University, UK)

This invaluable book provides both an introduction to the rudiments of perturbative string theory and a more detailed introduction to the more current topic of D-brane dynamics. The approach taken is pedagogical, with much of the technical detail streamlined. It is the concise nature of this rapid, but highly coherent, introduction to the subject that distinguishes it from other books on string theory or D-brane dynamics. The third edition has been revised to include a new chapter on the recent topic of string theory in electromagnetic fields. The material is based on courses in theoretical high-energy physics delivered by the author at various summer schools, so its level of appropriateness has been tested and has been resoundingly well received.

Readership: Graduate students and professionals in the field of high-energy or particle physics.

200pp Apr 2016978-1-78326-602-9 US$75 £50978-1-78326-603-6(ebook) US$98 £65

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Time in Powers of TenNatural Phenomena and Their Timescalesby Gerard ‘t Hooft & Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)translated by Saskia Eisberg- ‘t Hooft

With a Foreword by Steven Weinberg

“The authors have compiled a refreshing mix of historical anecdotes and examples from music to sport and biology to astronomy to lighten up the heavier taste of particle physics and cosmology… It is both an enjoyable read and very pleasant to browse at leisure... It fully conveys the authors’ amazement at — as Feynman put it — our fantastically marvellous universe.”

Nature Physics

Readership: Science enthusiasts and students.

232pp Jul 2014978-981-4489-80-5 US$78 £51

Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection4th Editionby Claude Leroy (Universitéde Montréal, Canada) & Pier-Giorgio Rancoita (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milan, Italy)

In this edition a complete treatment of the physics and properties of semiconductors is presented. It covers transport phenomena in semiconductors, scattering mechanisms, radiation effects and displacement damages. Furthermore, this edition presents a comprehensive treatment of the Coulomb scattering on screened nuclear potentials resulting from electrons, protons, light- and heavy-ions — ranging from (very) low up to ultra-relativistic kinetic energies — and allowing one to derive the corresponding NIEL (non-ionizing energy-loss) doses deposited in any material.

Readership: Researchers, academics, graduate students and professionals in accelerator, particle, astroparticle, space, applied and medical physics.

1300pp Aug 2016978-981-4603-18-8 US$188 £124978-981-4603-19-5(ebook) US$244 £161

Searches for the Higgs Bosonedited by Aleandro Nisati (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare — Sezione di Roma, Italy) & Vivek Sharma (University of California, San Diego, USA)

This book aims to be the first and an authoritative exposition of the experimental searches for the Higgs Boson, with emphasis on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. A cornerstone of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the discovery of the Higgs Boson will have wide ramifications in particle physics. This book contains a state-of-the-art description of the research in this field and will offer a complete survey on the search for the Higgs. This book will be a valuable and timely addition to the particle physics community.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in particle physics.


Notable BacklistProblems and Solutions on Mechanics Yung-Kuo Lim (NUS, Singapore)

Classical Mechanics (5th Edition) Tom W B Kibble & Frank H Berkshire (Imperial College London, UK)

Physics Olympiad — Basic to Advanced Exercises The Committee of Japan Physics Olympiad

One Hundred Physics Visualizations Using Matlab (With DVD-ROM) Dan Green (Fermilab)

How Schrodinger’s Cat Escaped the Box Peter Rowlands (University of Liverpool, UK)

Experiments and Demonstrations In Physics: Bar-Ilan Physics Laboratory (2nd Edition) Yaakov Kraftmakher (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

International Young Physicists’ Tournament: Problems & Solutions 2012–2013 Sihui Wang & Wenli Gao (Nanjing University, China)

Let There Be Light: The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies (2nd Edition) Ann Breslin & Alex Montwill (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Nobel Lectures in Physics (2006–2010) Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Problems and Solutions on Mechanics Yung-Kuo Lim (NUS, Singapore)

Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields Kerson Huang (MIT)

Madame Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research Tsai-Chien Chiang

Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to Cosmos (Revised Edition) Don Lincoln (Fermilab)

Achieving the Rare: Robert F Christy’s Journey in Physics and Beyond I-Juliana Christy (Caltech)

Introduction to Modern Physics: Solutions to Problems Paolo Amore (Universidad de Colima, Mexico) et al.

The Foundations of Physical Law Peter Rowlands (University of Liverpool, UK)

Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary, USA)

More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon Philip W Anderson (Princeton)

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS / PARTICLE PHYSICS

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Quark–Gluon Plasma 5edited by Xin-Nian Wang (Central China Normal University, China & LBNL)

This is the fifth volume in the series on the subject of quark–gluon plasma, a unique phase created in heavy-ion collisions at high energy. It contains review articles by the world experts on various aspects of quark–gluon plasma taking into account the advances driven by the latest experimental data collected at both the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The articles are pedagogical and comprehensive which can be helpful for both new researchers entering the field as well as the experienced physicists working on the subject.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in nuclear and particle physics.

500pp Dec 2015978-981-4663-70-0 US$128 £84978-981-4663-71-7(ebook) US$166 £109

QCD and Heavy QuarksIn Memoriam Nikolai Uraltsevedited by Ikaros I Bigi (University of Notre Dame, USA), Paolo Gambino (University of Torino, Italy) & Thomas Mannel (University of Siegen, Germany)

The book collects a few articles on QCD and heavy quarks by close colleagues and friends of Prof. Dr. Nikolai Uraltsev, who passed away early and unexpectedly in 2013. Nikolai Uraltsev was an excellent theorist and a wonderful friend, and this book is to honor his ground breaking work in fundamental physics, such as CP violation, instantons and renormalons in QCD, and in particular his work on the heavy quark expansion.

The book summarizes some aspects of QCD from a special perspective, which is relevant for the applications of QCD in the context of weak interactions. This includes CP violation in hadronic processes as well as the hadronic matrix elements in weak decays. The reader will get insight into the special way of understanding fundamental physics, which was peculiar of our former colleague Nikolai Uraltsev.

Readership: Physicists and graduates in elementary particles physics.

228pp Jul 2015978-981-4602-73-0 US$68 £45

Inside CERN’s Large Hadron ColliderFrom the Proton to the Higgs Bosonby Mario Campanelli (University College London, UK)

The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big collaborations, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Readers are led step-by-step to understanding why we do particle physics, as well as the tools and problems involved in the field. It provides an insider’s view on the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Readership: General public interested in state-of-the-art scientific research, especially in particle colliders and CERN.

100pp Mar 2016978-981-4656-64-1 US$45 £30978-981-4656-65-8(pbk) US$25 £17978-981-4656-66-5(ebook) US$59 £39

Scientific Works of Shoichi Sakata and Commentariesedited by Toshihide Maskawa (Nagoya University, Japan)

S Sakata (1911–1970) was an outstanding leader of Japanese physicists and produced many important papers on science as well as its methodology. He developed the meson theory with H Yukawa and obtained his PhD in 1941. In 1942 he proposed the “Two-Meson Theory” with T Inoue and was appointed to a professorship in Nagoya University, where he stayed for the rest of his career. In 1955 he proposed a composite model for hadrons (the Sakata model) that became the inspiration for the later Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix of 1973, which led to the Nobel Prize in Physics for T Maskawa and M Kobayashi. In 1962, he proposed the Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix with Z Maki and M Nakagawa. This theory was important in understanding the phenomenon of neutrino mixing and was established experimentally in 1998 at the Takayama conference.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in particle physics or the work of Prof. Shoichi Sakata.

450pp Jan 2016978-981-4663-90-8 US$98 £65978-981-4675-65-9(ebook) US$127 £85

Journeys Through the Precision Frontier: Amplitudes for CollidersTASI 2014 Proceedings of the 2014 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics2014 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle PhysicsBoulder, Colorado, 2–27 June 2014edited by Lance Dixon (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) & Frank Petriello (Northwestern University, USA)

This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2014. The coverage focuses on modern calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes, and on the phenomenology of QCD in hadronic collisions. Introductions to flavor physics, dark matter, and physics beyond the Standard Model are also provided. The lectures are accessible to graduate students at the initial stages of their research careers.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology.

900pp Dec 2015978-981-4678-75-9 US$240 £158978-981-4678-76-6(ebook) US$312 £205

Particles and the UniverseFrom the Ionian School to the Higgs Boson and Beyondby Stephan Narison (Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, CNRS, France)

“The book unifies presentation of broad philosophical ideas with precision of professional analysis. The possibility of such a synthesis is rooted in the personality of the author who, being a well known expert in elementary particles physics, is open to interpretation of its results within general cultural context.”

Prof. Zakharov Valentin IvanovichITEP, Russia

Readership: Students, researchers and general public interested in the history and developments of particle physics.

200pp Nov 2015978-981-4644-68-6 US$78 £51978-981-4644-69-3(pbk) US$34 £22978-981-4644-70-9(ebook) US$101 £66

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:: Bestseller

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory RevolutionThe Holographic Universeby Leonard Susskind (Stanford University, USA) & James Lindesay (Howard University, USA)

“A remarkable feature of this book is that relatively little specialized knowledge is required from the reader; a cursory acquaintance with quantum mechanics and relativity is sufficient. This is impressive, given that the authors cover some of the hottest topics in current research ... conceptually the book is truly challenging. It makes us think about many ideas we take for granted and shakes the foundations of our understanding of basic physics. It provides a rollercoaster ride into the treacherous and largely uncharted land of quantum gravity. This book is highly recommended for those interested in these fascinating topics.”

CERN Courier

Readership: Graduate students, researchers and theoretical physicists.

200pp Dec 2004978-981-256-083-4 US$39 £26978-981-256-131-2(pbk) US$19 £13978-981-256-309-5(ebook) US$51 £34

A Singularly Unfeminine ProfessionOne Woman’s Journey in Physicsby Mary K Gaillard (UC Berkeley)

In 1981 Mary K Gaillard became the first woman on the physics faculty at the University of California at Berkeley. Her career as a theoretical physicist spanned the period from the inception — in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A Singularly Unfeminine Profession recounts Gaillard’s experiences as a woman in a very male-dominated field, while tracing the development of the Standard Model as she witnessed it and participated in it. The development of the Standard Model, as well as attempts to go beyond it and aspects of early universe physics, are described through the lens of Gaillard’s own work, in a language written for a lay audience.

Readership: Students interested in women’s issues and/or particle physics, professionals interested in women’s issues and/or the history of the development of the Standard Model, general public interested in women’s issues and/or particle physics.


50 Years of Quarksedited by Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) & Murray Gell-Mann (Santa Fe Institute, USA)

On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field, the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to the academics and researchers.

Readership: Academics and researchers interested in elementary particle physics.


:: Bestseller

Subatomic Physics3rd Editionby Ernest M Henley & Alejandro Garcia (University of Washington, USA)

“Henley and García’s presentation and style hold the reader’s attention right from the start. The treatment is at just the right level to whet the reader’s appetite, slake their thirst for understanding and assess the current ‘state of the art’ ... this is a highly enlightening and up-to-date text, rather ambitious in its scope but successful in its aim to provide a comprehensive and comprehensible pedagogic overview of an exciting field of physics.”


Readership: Senior undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and advanced engineering students.

640pp Jul 2007978-981-270-056-8 US$121 £80978-981-270-057-5(pbk) US$73 £48

:: Bestseller

Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physicsby Martinus J G Veltman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA & NIKHEF, The Netherlands)

“Veltman gives an excellent impression of how science works and how the desire to penetrate into the unknown is what fires the enthusiasm of scientists. He also manages to explain the most abstract intricacies of particle theory without using any mathematics whatsoever ... I can fully recommend this book to students and interested lay readers, who will gain a fascinating insight into the sub-nuclear world — from a theoretical experimental and personal point of view.”

Physics World

Readership: Students, lay people and anyone interested in the world of elementary particles.


Notable BacklistFrom Photons to Higgs: A Story of Light (2nd Edition) Moo-Young Han (Kaist & Duke University, USA)

Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics (2nd Edition) A Das & T Ferbel (University of Rochester, USA)

Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Particle Physics: An Introduction to Group Theory for Particle Physicists Stephen Haywood (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

Modern Functional Quantum Field Theory: Summing Feynman Graphs Herbert M Fried (Brown)

Microcosmos: The World of Elementary Particles — Fictional Discussions Between Einstein, Newton, and Gell-Mann Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

Perspectives on String Phenomenology Bobby Acharya (King’s College London, UK & ICTP, Trieste, Italy) et al.

Leptons and Quarks (Special Edition Commemorating the Discovery of the Higgs Boson) Lev B Okun (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Russia)

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:: Bestseller

Laser50 Years of Discoveriesby Fabien Bretenaker (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, France) & Nicolas Treps (University Pierre and Marie Curie, France)

This unique book provides an overview of the principle and applications of lasers enriched with numerous illustrations.

Being over fifty years old, lasers continue to amaze us. Their performance characteristics are constantly reaching new limits, and the scope of their applications continues to expand. Yet, it took years of effort by teams of physicists to transform the fundamental notions of Einstein into the first experimental beam of laser light. And history is still going on as fundamental research is now triggered by its remarkable properties.

Readership: Anyone who is interested in applications and latest advances of Laser Physics.

184pp Dec 2014978-981-4612-40-1 US$55 £36978-981-4641-96-8(pbk) US$29 £19978-981-4612-41-8(ebook) US$72 £47

New Superconductors: From Granular to High TC2nd Editionby Guy Deutscher (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Review of the First Edition

“... readers of New Superconductors will benefit from the unusual and compelling insights of a researcher who has thought deeply about both grandular and high-Tc superconductors. I recommend it as a self-study guide for students, instructors, and researchers who are looking for understandable and crisp material on the potential and promise of high-Tc superconductors.”

Physics Today

Readership: Condensed matter physicists, researchers and engineers in applied superconductivity.

350pp Aug 2016978-981-283-888-9 US$115 £76978-981-283-889-6(pbk) US$68 £45

Relativistic Laser-Plasma-Based Particle Beams and Radiation Sourcesedited by Zheng-Ming Sheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China & University of Strathclyde, UK), Kazuhisa Nakajima, Jie Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) & Dino Jaroszynski (University of Strathclyde, UK)

This unique book is devoted to physics of relativistic laser plasma and its applications in the production of particle beams and radiation sources. This field has emerged as a new frontier of interdisciplinary research covering nonlinear optics, plasma physics, accelerator physics, and nuclear physics owing to the development of a few key technologies such as ultrafast high power laser, micro-fabrication, and ultrafast detection. Written by active leading experts, the book is composed of ten independent chapters, which cover laser-plasma-based particle beams and radiation sources, the involved physics, recent progress, as well as their potential applications.

Readership: Post-graduates and researchers who are interested in Nonlinear Physics, Plasma Physics and Accelerator Physics.

500pp Apr 2016978-981-4602-39-6 US$98 £65978-981-4602-40-2(ebook) US$127 £85

Dynamics of Intense Particle Beams in Linear Acceleratorsby Yuri Batygin (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

This book is devoted to the quickly developing area of high intensity particle beam physics. Beam emittance growth, halo formation and chaotic particle motion are the main areas of research in the new intense particle accelerators. Knowledge of those phenomena is crucial for the design of particle accelerators with space-charge dominated beams. This important book provides a new, self-consistent description of high brightness particle beams with essentially nonlinear space-charge forces. Halo-free beam transport and acceleration are treated as a problem of proper matching of nonuniform beams with the structure. New focusing channels with suppressed emittance growth are discussed.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in nuclear physics and high energy physics.

350pp May 2016978-981-02-4027-1 US$110 £73

:: Bestseller

Nuclear Radiation Interactionsby Sidney Yip (MIT)

The emphasis of this book is on the basic concepts underlying nuclear science and engineering, in contrast to the fundamentals of nuclear physics in a conventional nuclear engineering curriculum. The essential difference is it gives importance to the understanding of nuclear radiation and their transport in matter. Nuclear radiation has a central role in all evolving technologies and to be able to generate and use it for beneficial purposes, we must understand its properties and how it interacts with its surroundings. Through the control of radiation interactions, society can develop new devices, or optimize existing ones, to make them more safe, powerful, durable, and economical. This is the essence of nuclear radiation interactions, combined with nuclear radiation transport.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate or graduate students and researchers in nuclear physics.

386pp Dec 2014978-981-4368-07-0 US$74 £49

LASER PHYSICSNUCLEAR PHYSICS

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Series in Soft Condensed Matter - Volume 7

Liquid Crystals with Nano and Microparticlesedited by Jan P F Lagerwall & Giusy Scalia (Seoul National University, South Korea)

This book aims to cover both the modern research tracks, gathering pioneering research-ers of the different subfields to give a concise overview of the basis as well as the prospects of their respective specialties. The scope spans from curiosity-driven fundamental scientific research to applied sciences. Over the course of the next decade, the former is likely to generate new tracks of the latter type, considering the exploratory and productive phase of this young research field.

Readership: This book would be beneficial as a reference work for researchers active in the field as well as for other researchers aiming to enter the field.

750pp Jan 2016978-981-4619-25-7 US$158 £104978-981-4619-26-4(ebook) US$205 £135

LIQUID CRYSTAL

Notable Backlist

Electromagnetic Waves for Thermonuclear Fusion Research Ernesto Mazzucato (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA)

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X-Ray Phase Contrast Imagingby Alesssandro Olivo (University College London, UK) & Peter R T Munro (University of Western Australia, Australia)

This book fills an important gap in the existing literature by providing a comprehensive discussion of X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging (XPCi) and its various uses and implementations. XPCi could revolutionise all applications of X-ray imaging. It exploits a different mechanism to generate image contrast (refraction/interference instead of absorption), thus enhancing the visibility of all details, allowing the detection of features that are classically considered invisible.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers who are interested in the fast-growing area of research in X-ray phase contrast imaging, its implementation and recent developments.

220pp Jan 2016978-1-908977-31-1 US$78 £51978-1-908977-32-8(ebook) US$101 £67

Scattering and Diffraction in Physical Optics3rd Editionby Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain)

This book presents a comprehensive tutorial on propagation, diffraction and scattering problems from the basic principles of physical optics. Beginning with the fundamental differential and integral equations for wavefields, the text presents an exhaustive discussion on the extinction theorem as a non-local boundary condition; this has been extensively employed for the rigorous solution of scattering and diffraction problems.

Readership: Postgraduates and researchers interested in electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic optics and photonics.

520pp Jan 2017978-981-4630-04-7 US$108 £71

Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction in Ultra-High-Q Whispering Gallery Microcavitiesby Yun-Feng Xiao (Peking University, China), Chang-Ling Zou (University of Science and Technology of China, China) & Qi-Huang Gong (Peking University, China)

Confinement and manipulation of photons using microcavities have triggered intense research interest in both pure and applied physics for more than a decade. Prominent examples are whispering gallery microcavities that can confine photons by means of continuous total internal reflection along a curved and smooth surface. The long photon lifetime, strong field confinement, and in-plane emission characteristics make them promising candidates for enhancing light-matter interactions on a chip. In this book, we introduce different ultra-high-Q whispering gallery microcavities, and focus on their applications in enhancing light-matter interactions, such as ultra-low-threshold microlasing, highly sensitive optical biosensing, nonlinear optics, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and cavity optomechanics.

Readership: Undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers working on ultra-high-Q whispering gallery microcavities in particular.

275pp Apr 2016978-981-4566-06-3 US$88 £58978-981-4566-07-0(ebook) US$114 £75

Birefringent Thin Films and Polarizing Elements2nd Editionby Martin W McCall (Imperial College London, UK), Ian J Hodgkinson (University of Otago, New Zealand) & Qihong Wu (Finisar Australia, Australia)

Birefringent Thin Films and Polarizing Elements (2nd Edition) includes the significant advances that have been made since the first book on tilted-columnar films was published. The major discovery of serial bideposition has led to a normal-columnar nanostructure with enhanced birefringence and in turn to nanoengineered handed films with properties matching the left-circular reflectors of scarab beetles. A second version of the Matlab software that accompanies the book includes algorithms for computing material, electromagnetic and optical properties of isotropic, birefringent and chiral films. A set of numerical and experimental examples chosen to illustrate and generate interest in these new fields will be of interest to graduate students and to researchers in optics.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in optics.

468pp Feb 2015978-1-78326-535-0 US$148 £98978-1-78326-536-7(ebook) US$192 £127

Notable BacklistIntroduction to Geometrical Optics Milton Katz (State University of New York, USA)

Vectorial Optical Fields: Fundamentals and Applications Qiwen Zhan (University Of Dayton, USA)

OPTICS

Series on Archaeology and History of Science in China - Volume 1

History of Modern Optics and Optoelectronics Development in China editor-in-chief: Fuxi Gan (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

edited by Shouyun Tian (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

This book presents a collection of memoir papers on the development of modern and contemporary optics and optoelectronics in China from the 18th to 20th centuries. The papers were written by famous scientists in China, including members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, sharing their experience in different fields of optics and optoelectronics development. This is a unique book in understanding the natural science history of optics and optoelectronics. It gives you the general idea about how the western optical science spread to China in the 17th to 18th century; the cradle of the contemporary optics in China; Birth, development and application of lasers in China; high energy and high power lasers for laser antiballistic missile and laser nuclear fusion; development of Chinese optical communication and optical information storage; laser and infrared optics research for space science; development of Chinese optical instruments, etc.

Readership: Students and scientists who are interested in the history of optics and optoelectronics in China.

392pp Jun 2014978-981-4518-75-8 US$128 £84

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Non-Commutative GeometryA Perspective on String and Field Theoriesby Supriya Kar (University of Delhi, India)

This book provides a systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date account of the recent developments in non-commutative geometry, at a pedagogical level. It does not go into the details of rigorous (advanced level) mathematical formulation of non-commutative geometry; rather, it restricts itself to the domain of strings and quantum fields.

Readership: Senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in theoretical, mathematical, high energy and condensed matter physics.

250pp Aug 2016978-981-238-052-4 US$47 £33

Quantum Field TheoryLectures of Sidney Colemanedited by Yuan-Sen Ting (Harvard), Bryan Gin-ge Chen (Leiden University, Netherlands), Richard Sohn & David Derbes (University of Chicago, USA)

Sidney Coleman was a physicist’s physicist. He is largely unknown outside of the theoretical physics community, and known only by reputation to the younger generation. He was an unusually effective teacher, famed for his wit, his insight and his encyclopedic knowledge of the field to which he made many important contributions. There are many first-rate quantum field theory books (the ancient Bjorken and Drell, the more modern Itzykson and Zuber, the now-standard Peskin and Schroder, and the recent Zee), but the immediacy of Prof. Coleman’s approach and his ability to present an argument simply without sacrificing rigor makes his book easy to read and ideal for the student. Part of the motivation in producing this book is to pass on the work of this outstanding physicist to later generations, a record of his teaching that he was too busy to leave himself.

Readership: Graduate students and academics interested in quantum field theory.


ITER Physicsby C Wendell Horton, Jr (University of Texas at Austin, USA) & Sadruddin Benkadda (Aix Marseille University-CNRS, France)

This large toroidal magnetic confinement ITER machine is described from confinement process to advanced physics of plasma-wall interactions, where pulses erupt from core plasma blistering the machine walls. Emissions from the walls reduce the core temperature which must remain ten times hotter than the 15 million degree core solar temperature to maintain ITER fusion power. The huge temperature gradient from core to wall that drives intense plasma turbulence is described in detail.

Also explained are the methods designed to limit the growth of small magnetic islands, the growth of edge localized plasma plumes and the solid state physics limits of the stainless steel walls of the confinement vessel from the burning plasma. Designs of the wall coatings and the special “exhaust pipe” for spent hot plasma are provided in two chapters. And the issues associated with high-energy neutrons — about 10 times higher than in fission reactions — and how they are managed in ITER, are detailed.

Readership: For nuclear fusion and ITER specialists.

256pp Aug 2015978-981-4678-66-7 US$88 £58978-981-4678-67-4(ebook) US$114 £75

Short Pulse Laser Interactions with Matter2nd Editionby Paul Gibbon (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)

This book examines the physical phenomena which occur when light from short-pulse lasers interacts with material in gaseous, liquid or solid forms. The huge concentration of photon energy within the laser ensures that ordinary matter is torn apart within a few cycles, giving way to a host of exotic physical effects such as multiphoton ionization, particle acceleration by plasma waves, relativistic self-channeling and high harmonic generation. These processes are central to a number of emerging applications of high-power laser technology, such as hadron therapy, X-ray flash-lamps and photonuclear physics.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students interested in laser technology and researchers in laser and plasma physics.

400pp Aug 2016978-1-84816-865-7 US$88 £58

Fiber Optic Sensors Based on Plasmonicsby Banshi Dhar Gupta (Indian Institute of TechnologyDelhi, India), Sachin Kumar Srivastava (Ilse Katz Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Israel) & Roli Verma (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

The book provides an introduction of surface plasmons and presents its applications in the sensing of various chemical and biological analyses using optical fiber technology. The field is developed by introducing the surface plasmons for semi-infinite metal — dielectric interface with discussion of their propagation length and penetration depth. Practical issues with the excitation of surface plasmons in different configurations and in various geometries including various means of their excitation have also been included. The book discusses the essential components of fiber optic sensors, their functions and the performance parameters along with the theoretical description of fiber optic Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensors with respect to various light launching conditions. The fabrication methods and protocols used for the fabrication of the fiber optic SPR chemical and biosensors have been described. Some fiber optic sensing applications based on SPR phenomena and various issues, such as sensitivity enhancement, influence of external stimuli etc, have been an important part of the book.

Readership: Beginners as well as established researchers who are interested in the fundamentals and advancements of optical fiber plasmonic sensor technology.

200pp Jul 2015978-981-4619-54-7 US$88 £58978-981-4619-55-4(ebook) US$114 £75

Notable BacklistRotation and Momentum Transport in Magnetized Plasmas Patrick H Diamond (UC San Diego) et al.

Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Jean Louis Bobin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France)

Principles of Fusion Energy: An Introduction to Fusion Energy for Students of Science and Engineering A A Harms & D R Kingdon (Mcmaster University, Canada) et al.

Visual and Computational Plasma Physics James J Y Hsu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

QUANTUM PHYSICS / QUANTUM MECHANICS / QUANTUM INFORMATION

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From Atomic to MesoscaleThe Role of Quantum Coherence in Systems of Various Complexitiesedited by Svetlana A Malinovskaya (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) & Irina Novikova (College of William and Mary, USA)

This volume presents the latest advancements and future perspectives of atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics and its vital role in modern sciences and technologies. The chapters are devoted to a wide range of quantum systems, with an emphasis on understanding of quantum coherence and other quantum phenomena originated from light-matter interactions. The book intends to overview current research landscape and highlight major scientific trends in AMO physics interfacing with interdisciplinary sciences. It may be particularly interesting for young researchers working on establishing their scientific interests and goals.

Readership: For professional researchers as well as young academics in the field of Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) physics.

250pp Aug 2015978-981-4678-69-8 US$88 £58978-981-4678-70-4(ebook) US$114 £75

Photons in Fock Space and Beyond(In 3 Volumes)by Reinhard Honegger & Alfred Rieckers (University of Tübingen, Germany)

The three-volume major reference “Photons in Fock Space and Beyond” undertakes a new mathematical and conceptual foundation of the theory of light emphasizing mesoscopic radiation systems. The quantum optical notions are generalized beyond Fock representations where the richness of an infinite dimensional quantum field system, with its mathematical difficulties and theoretical possibilities, is fully taken into account. It aims at a microscopic formulation of a mesoscopic model class which covers in principle all stages of the generation and propagation of light within a unified and well-defined conceptual frame.

Readership: This three-volume series is recommended for graduate students and researchers working in rigorous Electrodynamics, Quantum Optics and Quantum Field Theory in general.

2352pp Jun 2015978-981-4618-82-3(Set) US$395 £261978-981-4618-84-7(Set)(ebook) US$514 £339978-981-4696-57-9(box-set) US$595 £393

Introduction to Quantum-State Estimationby Yong Siah Teo (Palacký University, Czech Republic)

This book is intended to serve as an instructive and self-contained medium for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students to grasp the basics of quantum-state estimation. Any reader with a solid foundation in quantum mechanics, linear algebra and calculus would be able to follow the book comfortably.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers interested in quantum information, estimation theory, and quantum optics.


Quantum Mechanicsby Richard Fitzpatrick (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Quantum mechanics was developed during the first few decades of the twentieth century via a series of inspired guesses made by various physicists, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Dirac. All these scientists were trying to construct a self-consistent theory of microscopic dynamics that was compatible with experimental observations.

The purpose of this book is to present quantum mechanics in a clear, concise, and systematic fashion, starting from the fundamental postulates, and developing the theory in as logical a manner as possible. Topics covered in the book include the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics, angular momentum, time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, scattering theory, identical particles, and relativistic electron theory.

Readership: For graduate students and self-contained or independent study in the field of quantum mechanics.

484pp Jul 2015978-981-4689-94-6 US$128 £84978-981-4689-95-3(pbk) US$68 £45

From Spinors to Quantum Mechanicsby Gerrit Coddens (Commissariat àl’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France)

In the traditional approach to quantum mechanics as initiated by Heisenberg, one has to start from a number of experimental results and then derive a set of rules and calculations that reproduce the observed experimental results. In such an inductive approach the underlying assumptions are not given at the outset. The reader has to figure them out, and this has proven to be difficult. The book shows that a different, bottom-up approach to quantum mechanics is possible, which merits further investigation as it demonstrates that with the methods used, the reader can obtain the correct results in a context where one would hitherto not expect this to be possible.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the field of quantum mechanics.

440pp Aug 2015978-1-78326-636-4 US$125 £83978-1-78326-638-8(ebook) US$163 £108

Cold Atoms — Vol. 4

The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light Book II: The Physics of Quantum-Optical Devicesby Crispin Gardiner (University of Otago, New Zealand) & Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light is a trilogy, which presents the quantum optics way of thinking and its applications to quantum devices. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of theoretical quantum optics. It covers applications to the optical manipulation of the quantum states of atoms, laser cooling, continuous measurement, quantum computers and quantum processors, superconducting systems and quantum networks. The subject is consistently formulated in terms of quantum stochastic techniques, and a systematic and thorough development of these techniques is a central part of the book. There is also a compact overview of the ideas of quantum information theory.

Readership: Researchers and graduate students in the field of quantum technology and quantum optics.


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Forces of the Quantum VacuumAn Introduction to Casimir Physicsedited by William M R Simpson & Ulf Leonhardt (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Forces of the Quantum Vacuum presents a number of theoretical approaches to Casimir, van der Waals and Casimir–Polder forces that have been fruitfully employed in mainstream research, and also reviews the experimental evidence for Casimir forces. Beginning with basic ideas in quantum mechanics and building its way to a sophisticated form of macroscopic QED, the book provides an inspiring training manual for graduate students to develop in a natural progression the ideas needed for modern theoretical research on Casimir forces.

Readership: The book will be useful for Masters students, PhD students, and novice researchers seeking to find their bearings in this field, and could also be used as the basis of graduate and summer school courses.

276pp May 2015978-981-4632-90-4 US$85 £56978-981-4632-91-1(pbk) US$45 £30

Understanding Our Unseen RealitySolving Quantum Riddlesby Ruth E Kastner (University of Maryland, USA)

“The riddles of quantum mechanics and the failure of modern physics to reach consensus on an interpretation continues to be a fascinating topic to the profession and the public alike. The elaboration and extension of the transactional interpretation by the author of this book is a timely development.”

Professor David MillerUniversity of Sydney

Readership: Undergraduate students and readers interested in quantum physics.


Surprising Quantum Bouncesby Valery Nesvizhevsky (Institut Laue — Langevin, France) & Alexei Voronin (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia)

This unique book demonstrates the undivided unity and infinite diversity of quantum mechanics using a single phenomenon: quantum bounces of ultra-cold particles.

Various examples of such “quantum bounces” are: gravitational quantum states of ultra-cold neutrons (the first observed quantum states of matter in a gravitational field), the neutron whispering gallery (an observed matter-wave analog of the whispering gallery effect well known in acoustics and for electromagnetic waves), and gravitational and whispering gallery states for anti-matter atoms that remain to be observed.

Readership: Graduates students and researchers in the field of quantum mechanics.

280pp Jun 2015978-1-78326-595-4 US$88 £58978-1-78326-596-1(pbk) US$48 £32

Ken Wilson Memorial VolumeRenormalization, Lattice Gauge Theory, the Operator Product Expansion and Quantum Fieldsedited by Belal E Baaquie (NUS, Singapore), Kerson Huang (MIT), Michael E Peskin (Stanford) & K K Phua (NTU, Singapore)

“Kenneth Wilson was a brilliant and creative contributor to the work on renormalization groups and phase transitions. He applied his multifaceted genius to condensed matter physics as well as nuclear and elementary particle physics.”

Murray Gell-Mann

To commemorate the memory of Ken Wilson, many leading and illustrious physicists have contributed to this volume — Ian Affleck, Belal E Baaquie, Ken Bowler, Édouard Brézin, Tohru Eguchi, Michael E Fisher, Paul Ginsparg, Domenico Giuliano, Stanislaw Glazek, Bailin Hao, Kerson Huang, Roman Jackiw, Richard Kenway, H R Krishnamurthy, N D Mermin, Stuart Pawley, Michael Peskin, Alexander Polyakov, John Schwarz, R Shankar, Akira Ukawa, David Wallace, Franz Wegner, Steven Weinberg, and Anthony Zee.

Readership: Students and researchers interested in Kenneth G Wilson’s work.

396pp May 2015978-981-4619-21-9 US$86 £57978-981-4619-22-6(pbk) US$44 £29

Quantum PathsFestschrift in Honor of Berge Englert on His 60th Birthdayedited by Hui Khoon Ng (Yale-NUS College, Singapore) & Rui Han (Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore)

This volume is a collection of original articles or reprints of journal papers and book chapters written or inspired by Berge Englert, as well as essays recounting Professor Englert’s impact on all the contributors’ scientific careers and lives in general. The scientific articles span a wide range of topics in quantum physics — from quantum optics, foundations of quantum physics, to quantum information — reflecting his influential impact. The personal essays offer a rare insight into the man behind the science — the essence of who he is. Each article in the book is preceded by a commentary from the contributor who wrote or suggested the inclusion of the article, highlighting its significance. The collection was created in relation to a conference, Berge Fest, held in UTown, National University of Singapore, in April 2014, in celebration of the 60th birthday of Professor Berge Englert.

Readership: Researchers and graduate students working in the field of quantum mechanics and quantum information.

420pp May 2015978-981-4651-83-7 US$118 £78978-981-4651-84-4(ebook) US$153 £101

Enhanced QuantizationParticles, Fields & Gravityby John R Klauder (University of Florida, USA)

This pioneering book addresses the question: Are the standard procedures of canonical quantization fully satisfactory, or is there more to learn about assigning a proper quantum system to a given classical system? As shown in this book, the answer to this question is: The standard procedures of canonical quantization are not the whole story!

This book offers alternative quantization procedures that complete the story of quantization. The initial chapters are designed to present the new procedures in a clear and simple manner for general readers. As is necessary, systems that exhibit acceptable results with conventional quantization lead to the same results when the new procedures are used for them. However, later chapters examine selected models that lead to unacceptable results when quantized conventionally. Fortunately, these same models lead to acceptable results when the new quantization procedures are used.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in quantum mechanics.

264pp Apr 2015978-981-4644-62-4 US$88 £58978-981-4644-63-1(ebook) US$114 £75

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The Quantum Worldby Michel Le Bellac (University of Nice, France)

The object of this book is to give a self-contained introduction to both aspects. It contains a detailed account of the foundational principles: superposition, entanglement, quantum non-locality, decoherence and measurement theory, and of some selected applications: quantum cryptography and quantum computers, cold atoms, light emitting and laser diodes, and atomic clocks.

Readership: Students and the general public interested in the foundational principles, practical applications and the newest discoveries in quantum physics.

256pp Jan 2014978-981-4579-50-6 US$78 £51978-981-4522-42-7(pbk) US$34 £22

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Quantum MechanicsA Modern Development2nd Editionby Leslie E Ballentine (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

“It has an outstanding depth and variety of topics. It has a special emphasis on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Almost every one studying advanced quantum mechanics will find this book useful.”

Zentralblatt MATH

Readership: Students, lecturers and researchers in quantum mechanics.

740pp Nov 2014978-981-4578-57-8 US$115 £76978-981-4578-58-5(pbk) US$75 £50

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Advanced Quantum Mechanics2nd Editionby Freeman Dyson (IAS, Princeton)

Review of the First Edition

“... one can profit significantly from the insight into the physics beneath the apparatus, and the extensive and detailed treatment of some problems. Therefore it may be very useful as an additional source in the preparation of a course on quantum field theory ... I highly recommend this book to get a different view on quantum field theory, and also to understand how quantum field theory emerged in its present form at all.”

Mathematical Reviews

Readership: Physicists, graduate and undergraduate students.


Quantum Foundations and Open Quantum SystemsLecture Notes of the Advanced Schooledited by Theo M Nieuwenhuizen, Claudia Pombo (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Claudio Furtado (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil), Andrei Yu Khrennikov (Linnaeus University, Sweden), Inácio A Pedrosa (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil) & Václav Špička (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)

The Advanced School on Quantum Foundations and Open Quantum Systems was an exceptional combination of lectures. These comprise lectures in standard physics and investigations on the foundations of quantum physics.

On the one hand it included lectures on quantum information, quantum open systems, quantum transport and quantum solid state. On the other hand it included lectures on quantum measurement, models for elementary particles, sub-quantum structures and aspects on the philosophy and principles of quantum physics.

Readership: Graduate students and academics interested in quantum physics.

612pp Nov 2014978-981-4616-72-0 US$95 £63978-981-4616-73-7(ebook) US$124 £82

:: BestsellerMajor American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions — Physics

Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanicsedited by Yung-Kuo Lim (NUS, Singapore)

“This collection will present students with the opportunity to test their comprehension and lecturers with ideas for problems.”


“The book will be of use to physics students preparing for graduate school general examinations, to those preparing the examinations, and to those needing a source of supplementary material suitable even for an undergraduate course in quantum mechanics.”

Mathematical Reviews

Readership: Graduate students, senior students and physics instructors.

764pp Sep 1998978-981-02-3133-0(pbk) US$71 £47

Notable BacklistQuantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light, The — Book I: Foundations of Quantum Optics Crispin Gardiner (University of Otago, New Zealand) et al.

Mind and Reality: The Space-Time Window Wolfram Schommers (University of Texas at Arlington, USA & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Introductory Quantum Physics and Relativity Jacob Dunningham (University of Leeds, UK) et al.

Quantum Computing from the Ground Up Riley Tipton Perry (University of New South Wales, Australia)

A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space Thomas L Curtright (University of Miami, USA) et al.

Quantum Fractals: From Heisenberg’s Uncertainty to Barnsley’s Fractality Arkadiusz Jadczyk (Quantum Future Group Inc., USA)

Chorus of Bells and Other Scientific Inquiries, A Jeremy Bernstein (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

Topics in Modern Physics: Solutions to Problems Paolo Amore (Universidad de Colima, Mexico) et al.

Hilbert Space and Quantum Mechanics Franco Gallone (Universitàdegli Studi di Milano, Italy)

Quantum Gas Experiments: Exploring Many-Body States Päivi Törmä (Aalto University, Finland) et al.

Solution Manual for Quantum Mechanics (2nd Edition) Ahmed Ishtiaq, Fayyazuddin & Riazuddin (National Centre for Physics, Pakistan)

Six Quantum Pieces: A First Course in Quantum Physics Valerio Scarani (NUS, Singapore) et al.

Back-of-the-Envelope Quantum Mechanics: With Extensions to Many-Body Systems and Integrable Pdes Maxim Olshanii (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)

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Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors5th Editionby Hartmut Haug (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) & Stephan W Koch (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)

This fifth edition includes an additional chapter on ‘Quantum Optical Effects’ where the theory of quantum optical effects in semiconductors is detailed. Besides deriving the ‘semiconductor luminescence equations’ and the expression for the stationary luminescence spectrum, results are presented to show the importance of Coulombic effects on the semiconductor luminescence and to elucidate the role of excitonic populations.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, quantum physics and optics.

484pp Apr 2009978-981-283-883-4 US$96 £63978-981-283-884-1(pbk) US$54 £36

Oscillator and Pendulum with a Random Massby Moshe Gitterman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Stochastic descriptions of a harmonic oscillator can be obtained by adding additive noise, or/and three types of multiplicative noise: random frequency, random damping and random mass. The first three types of noise were intensively studied in many published articles. In this book the fourth case, that of random mass, is considered in the context of the harmonic oscillator and its immediate nonlinear generalization — the pendulum. To our knowledge it is the first book fully dedicated to this problem.

Readership: Students and researchers working in statistical physics.

160pp Mar 2015978-981-4630-74-0 US$68 £45978-981-4630-75-7(ebook) US$88 £59

Is Hopping a Science?Selected Topics of Hopping Conductivityby Issai Shlimak (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

The book provides an overview of the author’s work devoted to experimental study of hopping conductivity, which includes substantial contributions, such as solving the problem of critical indices of the metal-insulator transition in doped semiconductors, investigation of transitions from different kinds of hopping conductivity, development of the “hopping spectroscopy” method that allows to reveal the details of the density-of-states near the Fermi level — appearance of a hard “magnetic gap”, temperature induced smearing of the soft Coulomb gap, the “phononless” hopping and so on. A separate chapter is devoted to the hopping photoconductivity and inter-impurity radiative recombination of non-equilibrium carriers.

Readership: This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in physics, researchers in semiconductor electronics and even for the non-experts who wish to have a notion about hopping transport.

156pp May 2015978-981-4663-33-5 US$58 £38978-981-4663-34-2(ebook) US$75 £49

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The Physics of Solar Cellsby Jenny Nelson (Imperial College, UK)

“This handy little book offers a pretty com-prehensive introduction to the basic physics of the PV cell.”

Photovoltaic Bulletin

“This book is more encyclopedic, with clear figures and broad scope. It does a good job of clarifying the fundamental issues and is a less advanced text. It is, therefore, probably more approachable and more useful to the general reader.”

Physics Today

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in semiconductor device physics, specifically photovoltaics.

384pp May 2003978-1-86094-340-9 US$104 £69978-1-86094-349-2(pbk) US$58 £38

Statistical PhysicsFundamentals and Application to Condensed Matterby Hung T Diep (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)

The aim of this book is to provide the fundamentals of statistical physics and its application to condensed matter. The combination of statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics has provided an understanding of properties of matter leading to spectacular technological innovations and discoveries in condensed matter which have radically changed our daily life.

Readership: For students, academics and researchers interested in statistical physics.

640pp Sep 2015978-981-4696-13-5 US$145 £96978-981-4696-25-8(pbk) US$78 £51

Order, Disorder and CriticalityAdvanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory Volume 4edited by Yurij Holovatch (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)

This book is the fourth in the series of review papers on advanced problems of phase transitions and critical phenomena. It presents reviews in those aspects of criticality and related subjects that have currently attracted much attention due to new and essential contributions. The contents are divided into five chapters, and they include: anomalous diffusion, kinetics of pattern formation, scaling, renormalization group approaches in soft matter and socio-physics, Monte Carlo simulation of critical Casimir forces.

Readership: Researchers, advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics; non-expert scientists interested in phase transitions and critical phenomena.

232pp May 2015978-981-4632-67-6 US$88 £58978-981-4632-68-3(ebook) US$114 £75

Notable BacklistPerspectives and Challenges in Statistical Physics and Complex Systems for the Next Decade Gandhimohan M Viswanathan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) et al.

Theory of Magnetism: Application to Surface Physics Hung T Diep (University Of Cergy-Pontoise, France)

Phase Transitions: Modern Applications (2nd Edition) Moshe Gitterman (Bar Ilan University, Israel)

SEMICONDUCTORS STATISTICAL PHYSICS

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Differentiability and Fractality in Dynamics of Physical Systemsby Ioan Merches (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania) & Maricel Agop Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, Romania)

Using Cartan’s differential 1-forms theory, and assuming that the motion variables depend on Euclidean invariants, certain dynamics of the material point and systems of material points are developed. Within such a frame, the Newtonian force as mass inertial interaction at the intragalactic scale, and the Hubble-type repulsive interaction at intergalactic distances, are developed.

The wave-corpuscle duality implies movements on curves of constant informational energy, which implies both quantizations and dynamics of velocity limits.

Analysis of motion of a charged particle in a combined field which is electromagnetic and with constant magnetism implies fractal trajectories. Mechanics of material points in a fractalic space is constructed, and various applications — fractal atom, potential well, free particle, etc. — are discussed.

Readership: Master, PhD students and professional researchers in the field of physics.

300pp Oct 2015978-981-4678-38-4 US$110 £73978-981-4678-39-1(ebook) US$143 £95

Extended Lagrange and Hamilton Formalism for Point Mechanics and Covariant Hamilton Field Theoryby Jürgen Struckmeier (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Germany) & Walter Greiner (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany)

In this book, the authors demonstrate how the canonical transformation formalism enables us to systematically devise gauge theories. With the extended canonical transformation formalism that allows to map the space-time geometry, it is possible to formulate a generalized theory of gauge transformations. For a system that is form-invariant under both a local gauge transformation of the fields and under local variations of the space-time geometry, we will find a formulation of General Relativity to emerge naturally from basic principles rather than being postulated.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in relativistic point mechanics and field theories.

300pp Jan 2016978-981-4578-41-7 US$110 £73978-981-4578-42-4(ebook) US$143 £95

Path Integrals for Pedestriansby Ennio Gozzi (University of Trieste, Italy), Enrico Cattaruzza (INFN, Italy) & Carlo Pagani (INFN, Italy & University of Mainz, Germany)

This is a book on path integrals which provides a quick and swift description of the topic. It contains original material that never before has appeared in a book. The new topics include the path integrals for the Wigner functions and for Classical Mechanics.

Readership: Student and professional in quantum and classical mechanics.

140pp Jan 2016978-981-4603-92-8 US$58 £38978-981-4603-93-5(pbk) US$34 £22

Effective Field Theoriesby Alexey A Petrov & Andrew E Blechman (Wayne State University, USA)

This book is a broad-based text intended to help the growing student body interested in topics such as gravitational effective theories, supersymmetric effective theories, applications of effective theory techniques to problems in condensed matter physics (superconductivity) and quantum chromodynamics (such as soft-collinear effective theory). It begins with a review of the use of symmetries to identify the relevant degrees of freedom in a problem, and then presents a variety of methods that can be used to solve physical problems. A detailed discussion of canonical examples of effective field theories with increasing complexity is then conducted. Special cases such as supersymmetry and lattice EFT are discussed, as well as recently-found applications to problems in gravitation and cosmology. An appendix includes various factoids from group theory and other topics that are used throughout the text, in an attempt to make the book self-contained.

Readership: For the advanced student having studied quantum field theory at the level of Peskin and Schroeder’s text.

300pp Jan 2016978-981-4434-92-8 US$98 £65978-981-4434-93-5(ebook) US$127 £84

Non-Commutative GeometryA Perspective on String and Field Theoriesby Supriya Kar (University of Delhi, India)

This book provides a systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date account of the recent developments in non-commutative geometry, at a pedagogical level. It does not go into the details of rigorous (advanced level) mathematical formulation of non-commutative geometry; rather, it restricts itself to the domain of strings and quantum fields.

Readership: Senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in theoretical, mathematical, high energy and condensed matter physics.

250pp Aug 2016978-981-238-052-4 US$47 £33

Imperial College Press Advanced Physics Texts

Symmetry, Groups, and Representations in Physicsby Dimitri D Vvedensky & Timothy S Evans (Imperial College London, UK)

This book is an introduction to symmetry in physics based on discrete and continuous groups. No knowledge of algebra is assumed and the book is suitable for both beginning and advanced graduate students. In fact, at Imperial College, the notes on which this book is based have been thoroughly tested in the classroom by two lecturers with quite different backgrounds (condensed matter theory and field theory) to classes composed of third- and fourth-year undergraduate students as well as students from the MSc in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces program. Abundant exercises, all with detailed solutions that are available in a separate instructor’s manual, are included to illustrate the concepts introduced in the main text, to extend some of the main results, and to introduce new ideas. One of the main themes in the book is the application of group theory to physical problems.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in group theory.

350pp Feb 2016978-1-84816-371-3 US$77 £53

THEORETICAL PHYSICS

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Bose, Spin and Fermi SystemsProblems and Solutionsby Willi-Hans Steeb & Yorick Hardy (University of Johannesburg, South Africa & University of South Africa, South Africa)

This book provides a comprehensive collection of problems together with their detailed solutions for Bose, Spin, Fermi systems and also interacting systems. Supplementary problems are also provided. Exercises for representations of Lie groups and Lie algebras are also covered as well as computer algebra implementations. It is the only book which summarizes these topics from the quantum theory aspect in the form of exercises and solutions. The book is also self-contained.

Both physicists and mathematicians will benefit from all the different techniques explained and worked out in detail.

Readership: Graduate and postgraduate students in physics and mathematics.

380pp Mar 2015978-981-4630-10-8 US$78 £51978-981-4667-34-0(pbk) US$48 £32

Einstein’s AppleHomogeneous Einstein Fieldsby Engelbert L Schucking & Eugene J Surowitz (New York University, USA)

Our book on “Einstein Fields” clarifies Einstein’s very first principle of equivalence (1907) that is the basis of his theory of gravitation. This requires the exploration of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds, a program that was suggested by Elie Cartan in “Riemannian Geometry in an Orthogonal Frame,” a 2001 World Scientific publication.

The volume is heavily illustrated and is accessible to well-prepared undergraduate and graduate students as well as the professional physics community.

Readership: Physics graduates, physicists, mathematicians, people interested in Einstein.

316pp Mar 2015978-981-4630-07-8 US$108 £71978-981-4630-08-5(ebook) US$140 £92

The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann MeetingOn Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories (In 3 Volumes)Proceedings of the MG13 Meeting on General RelativityStockholm University, Sweden, 1–7 July 2012edited by Kjell Rosquist (Stockholm University, Sweden), Robert T Jantzen (Villanova University, USA) & Remo Ruffini (International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network (ICRANet), Italy & University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)

The meetings discuss recent developments in classical and quantum aspects of gravity, and in cosmology and relativistic astrophysics, with major emphasis on mathematical foundations and physical predictions. Scientists from diverse backgrounds have contributed to reviewing the current state of the art in the theory, observations and experiments in the field.

Readership: Graduate students in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, and scientists interested in general relativity, gravitation, astrophysics, quantum gravity, particle physics, cosmology and theoretical physics.

2800pp Mar 2015978-981-4612-14-2(Set) US$450 £297978-981-4623-99-5(Set)(ebook) US$585 £386

Notable BacklistCanonical Quantum Gravity: Fundamentals and Recent Developments Francesco Cianfrani (University of Wrocław, Poland) et al.

Lie Groups and Lie Algebras for Physicists Ashok Das & Susumu Okubo (University of Rochester, USA)

Fractional Calculus: An Introduction for Physicists (2nd Edition) Richard Herrmann (Giga hedron, Germany)

Principles of Physics: From Quantum Field Theory to Classical Mechanics Jun Ni (Tsinghua University, China)

Topics in Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary, USA)

Feynman’s Thesis — A New Approach to Quantum Theoryedited by Laurie M Brown (Northwestern University, USA)

“Historians and physicists alike will enjoy this easy-to-read little book … The thesis itself is a masterpiece of clear exposition … it is written in Feynman’s uniquely chatty style, and reminiscent of the famous Feynman lectures. It is a delight to read and is likely to offer an insight, even to non-physicists, into both physics and the workings of Feynman’s mind. I would not hesitate to recommend the book to anyone — working physicists, historians, philosophers and even ‘curious fellows’ who would like to ‘peak over the shoulder’ of one of the 20th century’s great physicists at work.”

CERN Courier

Readership: Physicists, researchers and postgraduates.

144pp Aug 2005978-981-256-366-8 US$39 £26978-981-256-380-4(pbk) US$19 £13

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:: BestsellerUnder the Spell of Landau When Theoretical Physics was Shaping Destiniesedited by Mikhail Shifman (University of Minnesota, USA)

“The presented material is highly interesting for all those, who had the chance to take part in seminars and conferences in the Soviet Union or even to cooperate with Soviet colleagues.”

Zentralblatt MATH

Readership: Students and teachers of physics in high schools and colleges.


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ProceedingsTITLE AUTHOR PUB DATE ISBN13 US$ £

JOURNEYS THROUGH THE PRECISION FRONTIER: AMPLITUDES FOR COLLIDERS (TASI 2014) — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2014 THEORETICAL ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

DIXON LANCE ET AL 31-Oct-15 9789814678759 240 158

PARTICLE AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, GRAVITATION AND COSMOLOGY: PREDICTIONS, OBSERVATIONS AND NEW PROJECTS — PROCEEDINGS OF THE XXX-TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

RYUTIN ROMAN ANATOLIEVICH & PETROV VLADIMIR ALEXEEVICH

29-May-15 9789814689298 158 104

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH ASIAN PHYSICS OLYMPIAD CHOWDARI B V R 20-Apr-15 9789814689113 48 32

REFLECTIONS ON THE NEXT STEP FOR LHC — PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

ZICHICHI ANTONINO 30-Mar-15 9789814678100 148 98

PARTICLE PHYSICS AT THE YEAR OF CENTENARY OF BRUNO PONTECORVO — PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTEENTH LOMONOSOV CONFERENCE ON ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

STUDENIKIN ALEXANDER I 12-Mar-15 9789814663601 138 91

THIRTEENTH MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING, THE: ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL GENERAL RELATIVITY, ASTROPHYSICS AND RELATIVISTIC FIELD THEORIES — PROCEEDINGS OF THE MG13 MEETING ON GENERAL RELATIVITY (IN 3 VOLUMES)

ROSQUIST KJELL ET AL 27-Jan-15 9789814612142 450 297

EXOTIC NUCLEI (IASEN-2013) — PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN SYMPOSIUM ON EXOTIC NUCLEI

PENIONZHKEVICH YURI ERASTOVICH ET AL

21-Nov-14 9789814632034 168 111

HIGH GRADIENT ACCELERATING STRUCTURE — PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE OCCASION OF 70TH BIRTHDAY OF JUNWEN WANG

GAI WEI 27-Oct-14 9789814602099 98 65

NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND GAMMA-RAY SOURCES FOR NUCLEAR SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION — PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

HAYAKAWA TAKEHITO ET AL

27-Oct-14 9789814635448 140 92

CHIRAL SYMMETRY IN HADRONS AND NUCLEI — PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

GENG LI-SHENG ET AL 03-Oct-14 9789814618212 95 63

PHYSICS IN COLLISION (PIC 2013) SHEN XIAOYAN 07-Jul-14 9789814618649 114 75

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON NUCLEAR WAR AND PLANETARY EMERGENCIES — 46TH SESSION: THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

RAGAINI RICHARD C 07-Jul-14 9789814623438 148 98

POMERANCHUK 100GORSKY ALEXANDER S & VYSOTSKY MIKHAIL I

16-Jun-14 9789814616843 98 65

WHAT WE WOULD LIKE LHC TO GIVE US — PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

ZICHICHI ANTONINO 11-Jun-14 9789814603898 158 104

ASTROPARTICLE, PARTICLE, SPACE PHYSICS AND DETECTORS FOR PHYSICS APPLICATIONS — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH ICATPP CONFERENCE

GIANI S ET AL 02-Jun-14 9789814603157 178 117

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF THE 90TH BIRTHDAY OF FREEMAN DYSON PHUA K K ET AL 23-Apr-14 9789814590105 85 56

NEXT GENERATION EXPERIMENTS TO MEASURE THE NEUTRON LIFETIME — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2012 WORKSHOP

SEESTROM SUSAN J 04-Apr-14 9789814571661 95 63

SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION AND METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE GUO GUICHUN ET AL 20-Mar-14 9789814596633 125 83

PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, AND ALL THAT QUANTUM JAZZ TANAKA SHU ET AL 12-Mar-14 9789814602365 115 76

NEW RESULTS AND ACTUAL PROBLEMS IN PARTICLE & ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY — XXIX-TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

RYUTIN ROMAN, PETROV VLADIMIR & KISELEV V

06-Mar-14 9789814578738 98 65

PROBING THE MEANING OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: PHYSICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND LOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

AERTS DIEDERIK ET AL 24-Feb-14 9789814596282 145 96

CPT AND LORENTZ SYMMETRY — PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH MEETING KOSTELECKY ALAN 16-Jan-14 9789814566421 124 82

STRONG COUPLING GAUGE THEORIES IN THE LHC PERSPECTIVE (SCGT 12) — PROCEEDINGS OF THE KMI-GCOE WORKSHOP

AOKI YASUMICHI ET AL 14-Jan-14 9789814566247 165 109

SYMMETRY AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: TOM KIBBLE AT 80 GAUNTLETT JEROME 18-Dec-13 9789814583015 58 38

PHYSICS OF REALITY, THE: SPACE, TIME, MATTER, COSMOS — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH SYMPOSIUM HONORING MATHEMATICAL PHYSICIST JEAN-PIERRE VIGIER

AMOROSO RICHARD ET AL 23-Sep-13 9789814504775 168 111

FISSION AND PROPERTIES OF NEUTRON-RICH NUCLEI — PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ICFN5

HAMILTON JOSEPH H & RAMAYYA AKUNURI V

17-Sep-13 9789814525428 198 131

SEARCHING FOR NEW PHYSICS AT SMALL AND LARGE SCALES (TASI 2012) — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2012 THEORETICAL ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

SCHMALTZ MARTIN & PIERPAOLI ELENA

29-Aug-13 9789814525213 168 111

WHAT IS KNOWN AND UNEXPECTED AT LHC — PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

ZICHICHI ANTONINO 01-Aug-13 9789814522472 135 89

SEARCHING FOR THE UNEXPECTED AT LHC AND THE STATUS OF OUR KNOWLEDGE — PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

ZICHICHI ANTONINO 01-Aug-13 9789814522502 155 102

EXOTIC NUCLEI: EXON-2012 — PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUMPENIONZHKEVICH YU E & SOBOLEV YU G

27-Jun-13 9789814508858 178 117

QUEST FOR THE ORIGIN OF PARTICLES AND THE UNIVERSE — PROCEEDINGS OF THE KMI INAUGURATION CONFERENCE

AOKI YASUMICHI ET AL 26-Mar-13 9789814412315 168 111

MODERN TRENDS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MTPR-10

EL-NADI LOTFIA M 26-Mar-13 9789814504881 138 91

THE THEORY OF THE QUANTUM WORLD — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH SOLVAY CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS

GROSS DAVID ET AL 25-Mar-13 9789814440615 88 58

CAPTURE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY AND RELATED TOPICS — PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

GARRETT PAUL E ET AL 20-Mar-13 9789814383639 245 162

QUANTUM BIO-INFORMATICS V — PROCEEDINGS OF THE QUANTUM BIO-INFORMATICS 2011 ACCARDI LUIGI ET AL 31-Jan-13 9789814460019 175 116

THE DARK SECRETS OF THE TERASCALE (TASI 2011) — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2011 THEORETICAL ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

MATCHEV KONSTANTIN ET AL

03-Jan-13 9789814390156 254 168

TOWARDS ULTIMATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE — PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST LECOSPA SYMPOSIUM

CHEN PISIN 13-Dec-12 9789814449366 128 84

PARTICLE PHYSICS AT THE TERCENTENARY OF MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV — PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH LOMONOSOV CONFERENCE ON ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

STUDENIKIN ALEXANDER I 28-Nov-12 9789814436823 135 89

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE IN CHINA 2012 — PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR STRUCTURE IN CHINA

SHEN CAIWAN ET AL 28-Nov-12 9789814447478 125 83

LOW DIMENSIONAL PHYSICS AND GAUGE PRINCIPLES: MATINYAN'S FESTSCHRIFTGURZADYAN V G, KLUMPER A & SEDRAKYAN A G

08-Nov-12 9789814440332 88 58

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50 YEARS OF QUARKS 1760 YEARS OF CERN EXPERIMENTS AND DISCOVERIES 4ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS (SECOND EDITION) 23ADVANCES OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES IN STRONG LASER FIELDS 9ANNUAL REVIEW OF COLD ATOMS AND MOLECULES - VOLUME 3 10ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROSCOPY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS OF ASTRONOMICAL SPECTRA (2ND EDITION)

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ASTROPHYSICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE 9BEYOND THE GALAXY: HOW HUMANITY LOOKED BEYOND OUR MILKY WAY AND DISCOVERED THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE

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BIG PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COMPUTER SIMULATIONS (2ND EDITION) 11BIRDS AND FROGS: SELECTED PAPERS OF FREEMAN DYSON, 1990-2014 14BIREFRINGENT THIN FILMS AND POLARIZING ELEMENTS (2ND EDITION) 19BLACK HOLES: A STUDENT TEXT (3RD EDITION) 8BOSE, SPIN AND FERMI SYSTEMS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS 26BREAKING PARADIGMS IN ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS 10BUILDING THE H BOMB: A PERSONAL HISTORY 14CENTENNIAL OF GENERAL RELATIVITY: A CELEBRATION 5CHALLENGES AND GOALS FOR ACCELERATORS IN THE XXI CENTURY 4CHALLENGING ROUTES IN QUANTUM COSMOLOGY 7CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY: THE EINSTENIAN PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE 6CLEAN ELECTRICITY FROM PHOTOVOLTAICS (2ND EDITION) 12COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF HEISENBERG’S PRINCIPLE 7DE SITTER INVARIANT SPECIAL RELATIVITY 7DIFFERENTIABILITY AND FRACTALITY IN DYNAMICS OF PHYSICAL SYSTEMS 25DYNAMICS OF INTENSE PARTICLE BEAMS IN LINEAR ACCELERATORS 18EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORIES 25EINSTEIN’S APPLE: HOMOGENEOUS EINSTEIN FIELDS 26ELECTRICAL AND GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC MONOLAYERS 12ENGINES OF DISCOVERY: A CENTURY OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS (REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION)

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ENHANCED LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION IN ULTRA-HIGH-Q WHISPERING GALLERY MICROCAVITIES

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ENHANCED QUANTIZATION: PARTICLES, FIELDS & GRAVITY 22EXPLORING THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE: FROM BLACK HOLES TO SUPERSTRINGS 8EXTENDED LAGRANGE AND HAMILTON FORMALISM FOR POINT MECHANICS AND COVARIANT HAMILTON FIELD THEORY

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FACTS AND MYSTERIES IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS 17FAST COLLISIONS OF LIGHT IONS WITH MATTER: CHARGE EXCHANGE AND IONIZATION 9FEYNMAN’S THESIS - A NEW APPROACH TO QUANTUM THEORY 26FIBER OPTIC SENSORS BASED ON PLASMONICS 20FORCES OF THE QUANTUM VACUUM: AN INTRODUCTION TO CASIMIR PHYSICS 22FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF STAR CLUSTERS, THE 6FORMATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE: THEORIES OLD AND NEW (2ND EDITION) 8FROM ATOMIC TO MESOSCALE: THE ROLE OF QUANTUM COHERENCE IN SYSTEMS OF VARIOUS COMPLEXITIES

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FROM ORDERED TO CHAOTIC MOTION IN CELESTIAL MECHANICS 7FROM SPINORS TO QUANTUM MECHANICS 21HIGH LUMINOSITY LARGE HADRON COLLIDER, THE: THE NEW MACHINE FOR ILLUMINATING THE MYSTERIES OF UNIVERSE

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HISTORY OF MODERN OPTICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA 19HOPE AND VISION OF J ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, THE 14INDIRECT EFFECTS OF DARK MATTER PHYSICS 6INSIDE CERN’S LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: FROM THE PROTON TO THE HIGGS BOSON 16INTRODUCTION TO ASTROPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS, AN (2ND EDITION) 5INTRODUCTION TO BLACK HOLES, INFORMATION AND THE STRING THEORY REVOLUTION, AN: THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE

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INTRODUCTION TO LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS, AN (2ND EDITION) 11INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM-STATE ESTIMATION 21INTRODUCTION TO STRING THEORY AND D-BRANE DYNAMICS, AN: WITH PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS (3RD EDITION)

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INTRODUCTION TO THE METHODS OF RELATIVISTIC MOLECULAR QUANTUM MECHANICS, AN

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INVERSE METHODS FOR ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING: THEORY AND PRACTICE 11IS HOPPING A SCIENCE?: SELECTED TOPICS OF HOPPING CONDUCTIVITY 24IS MAN TO SURVIVE SCIENCE? 14ITER PHYSICS 20JOURNEYS THROUGH THE PRECISION FRONTIER: AMPLITUDES FOR COLLIDERS (TASI 2014) - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2014 THEORETICAL ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

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KEN WILSON MEMORIAL VOLUME: RENORMALIZATION, LATTICE GAUGE THEORY, THE OPERATOR PRODUCT EXPANSION AND QUANTUM FIELDS

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LASER: 50 YEARS OF DISCOVERIES 18LECTURE NOTES ON FIELD THEORY IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS 13LECTURES ON CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS 11LECTURES ON CLASSICAL MECHANICS 11

LIQUID CRYSTALS WITH NANO AND MICROPARTICLES 18MACROSCOPIC ELECTRODYNAMICS INSTRUCTOR’S SOLUTIONS GUIDE 10MACROSCOPIC ELECTRODYNAMICS: AN INTRODUCTORY GRADUATE TREATMENT 11MANY-BODY PHYSICS, TOPOLOGY AND GEOMETRY 12MODERN APPROACH TO CLASSICAL MECHANICS, A (SECOND EDITION) 10MODERN COURSE IN UNIVERSITY PHYSICS, A 13MORE PHYSICS WITH MATLAB (WITH COMPANION MEDIA PACK) 14NEW SUPERCONDUCTORS: FROM GRANULAR TO HIGH TC (2ND EDITION) 18NON-COMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY: A PERSPECTIVE ON STRING AND FIELD THEORIES 20NON-COMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY: A PERSPECTIVE ON STRING AND FIELD THEORIES 25NUCLEAR RADIATION INTERACTIONS 18ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY: FROM GENESIS AND EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS TO GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, COSMOLOGY AND QUANTUM GRAVITY (IN 2 VOLUMES)

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ORDER, DISORDER AND CRITICALLY: ADVANCED PROBLEMS OF PHASE TRANSITION THEORY - VOLUME 4

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OSCILLATOR AND PENDULUM WITH A RANDOM MASS 24PARTICLES AND THE UNIVERSE: FROM THE IONIAN SCHOOL TO THE HIGGS BOSON AND BEYOND

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PATH INTEGRALS FOR PEDESTRIANS 25PATH INTEGRALS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS, STATISTICS, POLYMER PHYSICS, AND FINANCIAL MARKETS (5TH EDITION)

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PHOTONS IN FOCK SPACE AND BEYOND (IN 3 VOLUMES) 21PHYSICS IN A MAD WORLD 13PHYSICS OF LOW-MASS STARS, BROWN DWARFS AND GASEOUS PLANETS, THE 6PHYSICS OF SOLAR CELLS, THE 24PRINCIPLES OF RADIATION INTERACTION IN MATTER AND DETECTION (4TH EDITION) 15PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN UNIVERSITY PHYSICS 13PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON QUANTUM MECHANICS 23PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH ASIAN PHYSICS OLYMPIAD 14QCD AND HEAVY QUARKS: IN MEMORIAM NIKOLAI URALTSEV 16QUANTUM FIELD THEORY: LECTURES OF SIDNEY COLEMAN 20QUANTUM FOUNDATIONS AND OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS: LECTURE NOTES OF THE ADVANCED SCHOOL

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QUANTUM MECHANICS 21QUANTUM MECHANICS: A MODERN DEVELOPMENT (2ND EDITION) 23QUANTUM PATHS: FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF BERGE ENGLERT ON HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY 22QUANTUM THEORY OF THE OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS (5TH EDITION)

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QUANTUM WORLD OF ULTRA-COLD ATOMS AND LIGHT, THE - BOOK II: THE PHYSICS OF QUANTUM-OPTICAL DEVICES

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QUANTUM WORLD, THE 23QUARK-GLUON PLASMA 5 16RELATIVISTIC LASER-PLASMA-BASED PARTICLE BEAMS AND RADIATION SOURCES 18REVIEWS OF ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - VOLUME 7: COLLIDERS 4SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION IN PHYSICAL OPTICS (3RD EDITION) 19SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF SHOICHI SAKATA AND COMMENTARIES 16SEARCHES FOR THE HIGGS BOSON 15SHORT PULSE LASER INTERACTIONS WITH MATTER (2ND EDITION) 20SINGULARLY UNFEMININE PROFESSION, A: ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY IN PHYSICS 17SOFT MATTER TRANSFORMATIONS IN CULINARY PROCESSES 12SOLID STATE QUANTUM INFORMATION -- AN ADVANCED TEXTBOOK: QUANTUM ASPECT OF MANY-BODY SYSTEMS

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STATISTICAL PHYSICS: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS LECTURES, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

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STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF STARS, THE 6STUDYING DISTANT GALAXIES: A HANDBOOK OF METHODS AND ANALYSES 6SUBATOMIC PHYSICS (3RD EDITION) 17SURPRISING QUANTUM BOUNCES 22SYMMETRY, GROUPS, AND REPRESENTATIONS IN PHYSICS 25THEORY OF RELATIVITY 8THIRTEENTH MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING, THE: ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL GENERAL RELATIVITY, ASTROPHYSICS AND RELATIVISTIC FIELD THEORIES - PROCEEDINGS OF THE MG13 MEETING ON GENERAL RELATIVITY (IN 3 VOLUMES)

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TIME IN POWERS OF TEN: NATURAL PHENOMENA AND THEIR TIMESCALES 15UNDER THE SPELL OF LANDAU: WHEN THEORETICAL PHYSICS WAS SHAPING DESTINIES 26UNDERSTANDING OUR UNSEEN REALITY: SOLVING QUANTUM RIDDLES 22UNDERSTANDING THE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN COPPER OXIDES 12VINDICATION OF COSMIC BIOLOGY: TRIBUTE TO SIR FRED HOYLE (1915-2001) 7WAVE MOMENTUM AND QUASI-PARTICLES IN PHYSICAL ACOUSTICS 5WAVES AND RAYS IN SEISMOLOGY: ANSWERS TO UNASKED QUESTIONS 10WHERE DID WE COME FROM?: LIFE OF AN ASTROBIOLOGIST 8WHERE PHYSICS WENT WRONG 8X-RAY PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING 19

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AAcharya Bobby .................................. 17Agop Maricel...................................... 25Ahmed Ishtiaq.................................... 23Amore Paolo ................................ 15, 23Anderson Philip W ............................. 15Archer Mary D ................................... 12Aslam Muhammad Jamil ..................... 8

BBaaquie Belal E ............................. 8, 22Ballentine Leslie E ............................. 23Bastian Nate John ............................... 6Batygin Yuri ....................................... 18Belkic Dzevad ...................................... 9Benini Riccardo ................................... 6Benkadda Sadruddin ......................... 20Berkshire Frank H.............................. 15Bernstein Jeremy............................... 23Bigi Ikaros I ........................................ 16Blechman Andrew E .......................... 25Bobin Jean Louis ............................... 20Bona Andrej ........................................11Bongs Kai .......................................... 10Breslin Ann ........................................ 15Bretenaker Fabien ............................. 18Brink Lars .......................................... 15Brizard Alain J.....................................11Brown Laurie M ................................. 26Bruning Oliver ...................................... 4Bussmann-holder Annette ................. 12

CCampanelli Mario............................... 16Carr Lincoln D.................................... 10Cassi Davide ..................................... 12Castells Pere ..................................... 12Cattaruzza Enrico .............................. 25Chabrier Gilles ..................................... 6Chao Alexander Wu ............................. 4Chen Bryan Gin-ge ............................ 20Chiang Tsai-chien .............................. 15Chou Weiren ........................................ 4Chowdari B V R ................................. 14Christy I-juliana .................................. 15Chua Lynn ......................................... 23Cianfrani Francesco ...................... 6, 26Coddens Gerrit .................................. 21Cohen-tannoudji Claude .................... 10Conte Mario ......................................... 4Curtright Thomas L ............................ 23

DDa Luz Marcos Gomes Eleuterio....... 24Das Ashok ................................... 17, 26Day Michael A .................................... 14Degrand Thomas A ............................ 16Derbes David ............................... 20, 23Deutscher Guy................................... 18Di Bartolo Baldassare ........................ 13Diamond Patrick H............................. 20Diep Hung-the ................................... 24Dixon Lance....................................... 16Dunningham Jacob............................ 23Dutta Niloy K........................................ 5Dyson Freeman J ........................ 14, 23

EEinasto Jaan ........................................ 9

Eldridge John J .................................... 6Encrenaz Therese ............................... 9Englert Berthold-georg .......................11Evans Timothy S................................ 25

FFairlie David B ................................... 23Fayyazuddin ................................. 8, 23Ferbel Thomas .................................. 17Fillard Jean-pierre.............................. 14Fisher Timothy S................................ 13Fitzpatrick Richard ............................. 21Flores Hector ....................................... 6Ford Kenneth W ................................ 14Fried Herbert Martin .......................... 17Fritzsch Harald .................................. 17Furtado Claudio ................................. 23

GGaillard Mary K .................................. 17Gallone Franco .................................. 23Gambino Paolo .................................. 16Gan Fuxi ............................................ 19Gao Wenli .......................................... 15Garbet Xavier .................................... 20Garcia Alejandro ................................ 17Gardiner Crispin W ...................... 21, 23Gell-mann Murray .............................. 17Ghendrih Philippe .............................. 20Gibbon Paul ....................................... 20Gitterman Moshe ............................... 24Gong Qihuang ................................... 19Gonzalo Julio A .................................... 7Goodwin Simon ................................... 6Gozzi Ennio ....................................... 25Green Daniel ............................... 14, 15Green Martin Andrew......................... 12Greiner Walter ................................... 25Guery-odelin David ............................ 10Gupta Banshi Dhar ............................ 20Gupta Kumar Sankar ......................... 12

HHamilton Joseph H ............................ 10Hammer Francois ................................ 6Han Fuxiang ...................................... 13Han Fuxiang ...................................... 13Han Moo-young ................................. 17Han Rui.............................................. 22Hardy Yorick ...................................... 26Harms Archie A .................................. 20Hartmann Alexander K .......................11Hasegawa Shuji................................. 15Haug Hartmut .................................... 24Haw Jing Yan ..................................... 23Haywood Stephen ............................. 17Henley Ernest M ................................ 17Herrmann Richard ............................. 26Hodgkinson Ian J ............................... 19Holovatch Yurij ................................... 24Honegger Reinhard ........................... 21Horton, Jr C Wendell ......................... 20Hsu James Jang-yu ........................... 20Huang Kerson.............................. 15, 22

IIro Harald ........................................... 10Iwamoto Mitsumasa........................... 12

JJadczyk Arkadiusz ............................. 23James Frederick .................................. 4Jantzen Robert T ............................... 26Japan The Committee Of

Japan Physics Olympiad ............... 15Jaroszynski Dino ............................... 18

KKaiser David ...................................... 20Kane Gordon ..................................... 17Kar Supriya K .............................. 20, 25Kastner Ruth E .................................. 22Katz Milton ......................................... 19Khlopov Maxim Yu ............................... 6Khrennikov Andrei Yu ........................ 23Kibble Tom ......................................... 15Kingdon Dave R ................................ 20Kisslinger Leonard S ........................... 9Klauder John R .................................. 22Kleinert Hagen ................................... 13Koch Stephan W................................ 24Kraftmakher Yaakov .......................... 15Kumar Piyush .................................... 17

LLagerwall Jan P F .............................. 18Lam Kai S ...........................................11Lavenda Bernard H ............................. 8Le Bellac Michel ................................ 23Lecian Orchidea Maria ...................... 26Lee Shyh-yuan .................................... 4Lella Luigi Di ........................................ 4Leonhardt Ulf ..................................... 22Lequeux James ................................... 9Leroy Claude ..................................... 15Li Miao ................................................. 9Li Shufeng ......................................... 13Li Xiaodong.......................................... 9Lim Yung Kuo .......................... 5, 15, 23Lincoln Donald ................................... 15Lindesay James................................. 17Liu Shi Yang ...................................... 23Liu Yunquan ......................................... 9Lulli Matteo ........................................ 26Lunine Jonathan .................................. 6

MMackay William W ............................... 4Madison Kirk W ................................. 10Malinovskaya Svetlana A ................... 21Mannel Thomas ................................. 16Maskawa Toshihide ........................... 16Maugin Gerard A.................................. 5Mazzucato Ernesto ............................ 18Mccall Martin W ................................. 19Mcculloch Michael Edward .................. 9Merches Ioan ..................................... 25Mess Karl-hubert ................................. 4Miley George H.................................. 20Moniz Paulo Vargas ............................. 7Montani Giovanni........................... 6, 26Montwill Alex ...................................... 15Mudry Christopher ............................. 13Muller Karl Alex.................................. 12Munro Peter R T ................................ 19Myers Stephen .................................... 4

NNakajima Kazuhisa ............................ 18

Narison Stephan ................................ 16Nelson Jenny A .................................. 24Nesvizhevsky Valery .......................... 22Newton Roger G .................................11Ng Hui Khoon .................................... 22Ni Jun ................................................ 26Ni Wei-tou ............................................ 5Nieto Vesperinas Manuel................... 19Nieuwenhuizen Theo M ..................... 23Nisati Aleandro .................................. 15Novikova Irina .................................... 21

OOks Eugene ....................................... 10Okubo Susumu .................................. 26Okun Lev Borisovich.......................... 17Olchanyi Maxim ................................. 23Olivo Alessandro................................ 19Ou-yang Zhong-can........................... 12

PPagani Carlo ...................................... 25Pedrosa Inacio A................................ 23Perry Riley Tipton .............................. 23Peskin Michael E ............................... 22Petriello Frank ................................... 16Petrov Alexey A.................................. 25Peuch Mathieu..................................... 6Phua Kok Khoo.................................. 22Pombo Claudia .................................. 23Powell Richard C ............................... 13

RRaine Derek J ...................................... 8Rancoita Pier-giorgio ......................... 15Raposo Ernesto P ............................. 24Rey Ana Maria ................................... 10Riazuddin ...................................... 8, 23Rieckers Alfred .................................. 21Rodgers Clive D .................................11Rodrigues Myriam ............................... 6Rosquist Kjell ..................................... 26Rossi Lucio .......................................... 4Rousseau Martine ............................... 5Rowlands Peter ................................. 15Ruffini Remo ...................................... 26

SSapina-navarro Fernando.................. 12Sarazin Yanick ................................... 20Scalia Giusy....................................... 18Scarani Valerio .................................. 23Schoepf Klaus F ................................ 20Schommers Wolfram ......................... 23Schopper Herwig ................................. 4Schucking Engelbert L ....................... 26Sen Siddhartha .................................. 12Sengstock Klaus ................................ 23Sessler Andrew.................................... 4Sharma Vivek .................................... 15Sheng Zheng-ming ............................ 18Shifman Misha ............................. 13, 26Shlimak Issai ..................................... 24Siegel Ethan ........................................ 7Simpson William M R ........................ 22Slawinski Michael A ......................10, 11Sohn Richard ..................................... 20Son Wonmin ...................................... 12Spicka Vaclav .................................... 23Srivastava Sachin Kumar .................. 20

Steeb Willi-hans................................. 26Struckmeier Jurgen ........................... 25Sun Yi-sui ............................................ 7Surowitz Eugene J............................. 26Susskind Leonard .............................. 17Szabo Richard J ................................ 15

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VVandoren Stefan ................................ 15Vasconcellos Cesar Augusto Zen ........ 5Vedral Vlatko ............................... 12, 23Veltman Martinus J G ........................ 17Verma Roli ......................................... 20Viswanathan Gandhimohan M .......... 24Voronin Alexei .................................... 22Vvedensky Dimitri D .......................... 25

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