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by Andrew Sessler (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

USA) & Edmund Wilson (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

edited by Alexander Wu Chao (SLAC National Accelerator

Laboratory, USA), Maury Tigner (Cornell University,

USA), Karl Hubert Mess & Frank Zimmermann (CERN,

Switzerland)

by Jaan Einasto (Tartu Observatory, Estonia)

by Thérèse Encrenaz (Paris Observatory, France)

by Baldassare Di Bartolo (Boston College, USA) &

Richard C Powell (University of Arizona, USA)

by Timothy S Fisher (Purdue University, USA)

by Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) & Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

by Dan Green (Fermi National Accelerator

Laboratory, USA)

by Lev B Okun (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental

Physics (ITEP), Russia)

by Moo-Young Han (Korea Advanced Institute of

Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea & Duke University, USA)

edited by T Eguchi (Rikkyo University, Japan) &

M Y Han (KAIST, Korea)

by Ernesto Mazzucato (Princeton Plasma Physics

Laboratory, USA)

by Jean Louis Bobin (Université Pierre et Marie

Curie (Paris 6), France)

Edited by Janaki Balakrishnan (National Institute of Advanced

Studies (NIAS), India) &B V Sreekantan (National Institute of

Advanced Studies (NIAS), India)

by Crispin Gardiner (University of Otago, New

Zealand), Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

edited by Gösta Ekspong (Stockholm University, Sweden)


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ACCELERATOR PHYSICS / ACCELERATOR PHYSICS / EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICSEXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS ........................................................ ........................................................44

APPLIED PHYSICSAPPLIED PHYSICS ..................................................................... .....................................................................55

ASTROPHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGYASTROPHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY ............. .............66

ATOMIC PHYSICSATOMIC PHYSICS..............................................................................................................................................88

CLASSICAL MECHANICS / ELECTRODYNAMICSCLASSICAL MECHANICS / ELECTRODYNAMICS ............. .............99

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICSCOMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ................................................ ................................................ 1010

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS / CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS / SOLID STATE PHYSICSSOLID STATE PHYSICS .......................................................... .......................................................... 1010

GENERAL PHYSICSGENERAL PHYSICS ................................................................. ................................................................. 1313

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS / PARTICLE PHYSICSHIGH ENERGY PHYSICS / PARTICLE PHYSICS ............... ............... 1717

LASER PHYSICSLASER PHYSICS ....................................................................... ....................................................................... 2121

MOLECULAR PHYSICSMOLECULAR PHYSICS .......................................................... .......................................................... 2222

NUCLEAR PHYSICSNUCLEAR PHYSICS ................................................................ ................................................................ 2222

OPTICSOPTICS ....................................................................................... ....................................................................................... 2323

PLASMA PHYSICSPLASMA PHYSICS ................................................................... ................................................................... 2424

QUANTUM PHYSICS / QUANTUM MECHANICS / QUANTUM PHYSICS / QUANTUM MECHANICS / QUANTUM INFORMATIONQUANTUM INFORMATION .................................................. .................................................. 2424

SEMICONDUCTORSSEMICONDUCTORS ............................................................... ............................................................... 2727

STATISTICAL PHYSICSSTATISTICAL PHYSICS ........................................................... ........................................................... 2828

THEORETICAL PHYSICSTHEORETICAL PHYSICS ........................................................ ........................................................ 2929

THERMODYNAMICSTHERMODYNAMICS .............................................................. .............................................................. 3232

PROCEEDINGSPROCEEDINGS ........................................................................ ........................................................................ 3333

JOURNALSJOURNALS ................................................................................ ................................................................................ 3434

TITLE INDEXTITLE INDEX ............................................................................. ............................................................................. 3636

AUTHOR INDEXAUTHOR INDEX ...................................................................... ...................................................................... 3737

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CHALLENGES AND GOALS FORACCELERATORS IN THE XXI CENTURYedited by Oliver Brüning & Steven Myers (CERN, Switzerland)

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 Jun 2015978-981-4436-39-7 US$158 £104978-981-4436-40-3(ebook) US$205 £135

ENGINES OF DISCOVERYA Century of Particle Accelerators Revised and Expanded Editionby Andrew Sessler (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) & Edmund Wilson (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

“In this revised edition of Engines of Discovery, the authors have substantially expanded their text on accelerators. From principles to applications reaching deep into the specialized fields involving dedicated accelerators, the book describes the history and the state of the art of accelerator-based facilities used by experimental scientists worldwide. In particular the applications of accelerators in research and industry, medicine and security systems highlight the important role of accelerators and their vast impact on our daily life.”

Norbert HoltkampAssociate Laboratory Director, Accelerator Directorate

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford

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

BEAM DYNAMICS IN HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE ACCELERATORSby Andrzej Wolski (University of Liverpool, UK)

Particle accelerators are essential tools for scientific research in fields as diverse as high energy physics, materials science and structural biology. They are also widely used in industry and medicine. Producing the optimum design and achieving the best performance for an accelerator depends on a detailed understanding of many (often complex and sometimes subtle) effects that determine the properties and behavior of the particle beam. Beam Dynamics in High Energy Particle Accelerators provides an introduction to the concepts underlying accelerator beam line design and analysis, taking an approach that emphasizes the elegance of the subject and leads into the development of a range of powerful techniques for understanding and modeling charged particle beams.

Readership: Undergraduate students who are looking for an introduction to beam dynamics, and graduate students and researchers in the field.

608pp Mar 2014978-1-78326-277-9 US$148 £98978-1-78326-278-6(ebook) US$192 £127

:: BestsellerHANDBOOK OF ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING(2nd Edition)edited by Alexander Wu Chao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA), Karl Hubert Mess (CERN, Switzerland), Maury Tigner (Cornell University, USA) & Frank Zimmermann (CERN, Switzerland)

“The handbook continues to be an outstanding reference and provides almost all the answers and clues for anyone working with particle accelerators, be they medical, nuclear, high energy colliders or synchrotron radiation light sources.” Australian Physics

With a collection of more than 2000 equations, 300 illustrations and 500 graphs and tables, here one will find, in addition to the common formulae of previous compilations, hard-to-find, specialized formulae, recipes and material data pooled from the lifetime experience of many of the world’s most able practitioners of the art and science of accelerators.

Readership: Physicists, engineers and practitioners in accelerator science.

848pp May 2013978-981-4415-84-2 US$138 £91978-981-4417-17-4(pbk) US$78 £51978-981-4415-85-9(ebook) US$179 £118

:: Recommended TextbookACCELERATOR PHYSICS(3rd Edition)by S Y Lee (Indiana University, USA)

“This is a good book which goes well beyond the standard introductory text on the field. It should satisfy the graduate student specializing in the field and the accelerator scientist willing to cover in major detail the fundamental aspects of the physics of particle accelerators.”

IL Nuovo Saggiatore

“I recommend this book to any student who wants to enter the accelerator field! A must for students and experts.”

GSI Helmholtzzentrum für, Schwerionenforschung GMBH

Readership: Accelerator, high-energy, nuclear, plasma and applied physicists.

556pp Nov 2011978-981-4374-94-1(pbk) US$68 £45

STATISTICAL METHODS IN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS(2nd Edition)by Frederick James (CERN, Switzerland)

“I highly recommend that this book be kept on every desk — for consultation when a question arises, for browsing when in the mood to learn something interesting, and for a straight read-though to get a grounding in the classical theory of statistics from an experimental physicist’s perspective.” CERN Courier

Readership: Advanced students, lecturers and research scientists in physics, astronomy and related sciences.

364pp Dec 2006978-981-256-795-6 US$73 £48978-981-270-527-3(pbk) US$39 £26

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IN MEMORY OF AKIRA TONOMURAPhysicist and Electron Microscopist (With DVD-ROM)edited by Kazuo Fujikawa (RIKEN, Japan) & Yoshimasa A Ono (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan)

This memorial volume in honor of Dr Akira Tonomura is to commemorate his enormous contributions to fundamental physics in addition to the basic technology of electron microscopy. Dr Tonomura passed away on May 2, 2012 at the age of 70. He was Fellow of Hitachi, Ltd., Group Director of Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group of RIKEN, Principal Investigator of the FIRST Tonomura Project, and Professor of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physics, materials science and related fields.

328pp Mar 2014978-981-4472-88-3 US$128 £84978-981-4472-89-0(pbk) US$68 £45978-981-4472-90-6(ebook) US$166 £109

Major American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions - Physics PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONSON ELECTROMAGNETISMedited by Yung-Kuo Lim (National University of 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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Notable BacklistINTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS, AN (2ND EDITION)Conte Mario (INFN Sezione Di Genova, Italy) et al.

ACCELERATOR PHYSICS: EXAMPLE PROBLEMS WITH SOLUTIONSConte Mario (INFN Sezione Di Genova, Italy) et al.

Notable BacklistOPTICAL MICROCAVITIESVahala Kerry (California Inst of Technology, USA)

OPTICAL PROCESSES IN MICROPARTICLES AND NANOSTRUCTURES: A FESTSCHRIFT DEDICATED TO RICHARD KOUNAI CHANG ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM YALE UNIVERSITYSerpenguzel Ali (Koc Univ, Turkey) et al.

RAY AND WAVE CHAOS IN OCEAN ACOUSTICS: CHAOS IN WAVEGUIDESPrants Sergey V (Pacific Oceanological Inst, Vladivostok, Russia) et al.

LOW ENERGY ION ASSISTED FILM GROWTHGonzalez-Elipe A R (Inst De Cienca De Materiales De Sevilla (CSIC-Univ Sevilla), Spain) et al.

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Volume 6: Accelerators for High Intensity Beams

As particle accelerators strive forever increasing performance, high intensity particle beams become one of the critical demands requested across the board by a majority of accelerator users (proton, electron and ion) and for most applications. Much effort has been made by our community to pursue high intensity accelerator performance on a number of fronts. Recognizing its importance, we devote this volume to Accelerators for High Intensity Beams. High intensity accelerators have become a frontier and a network for innovation. They are responsible for many scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs that have changed our way of life, often taken for granted. A wide range of topics is covered in the fourteen articles in this volume.

Readership: Physicists and engineers in accelerator science and industry.

320pp Apr 2014978-981-4583-24-4 US$148 £98978-981-4583-25-1(ebook) US$192 £127

Volume 5: Applications of Superconducting Technology to Accelerators

368pp Feb 2013978-981-4449-94-6 US$148 £98978-981-4449-95-3(ebook) US$192 £127

Volume 4: Accelerator Applications in Industry and the Environment

300pp Feb 2012978-981-4383-98-1 US$180 £119978-981-4383-99-8(ebook) US$234 £154

Volume 3: Accelerators as Photon Sources

300pp Jan 2011978-981-4340-38-0 US$146 £97978-981-4340-39-7(ebook) US$190 £126

Volume 2: Medical Applications of Accelerators

320pp Jan 2010 978-981-4299-34-3 US$108 £71978-981-4299-35-0(ebook) US$140 £92

REVIEWS OF ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Volume 1

340pp Dec 2008978-981-283-520-8 US$99 £65978-981-283-521-5(ebook) US$129 £85

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:: TextbookAN INTRODUCTION TO ASTROPHYSICALFLUID DYNAMICS (2nd Edition)by 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.

The second edition contains expanded material and includes exercises.

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

350pp Feb 2015978-1-84816-644-8 US$60 £37

STUDYING DISTANT GALAXIESA Handbook of Methods and Analysesby François Hammer (Paris Observatory, France), Mathieu Puech Paris Observatory, France), 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 Nov 2015978-1-84816-944-9 US$108 £71

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.

Readership: Graduate students and professionals in cosmology.

230pp Aug 2015978-981-4415-06-4 US$88 £58978-981-4415-07-1(ebook) US$114 £75

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGYThe Einstenian Picture of the Universeby Giovanni Montani (ENEA, Italy), Francesco Cianfrani (University of Wroc aw, 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.

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

450pp Oct 2015978-981-4518-66-6 US$134 £88978-981-4518-67-3(ebook) US$174 £115

:: TextbookDELIQUESCENCE AND LIQUID WATER ON MARSImplications for Lifeby Nilton O Rennó (University of Michigan, USA)

This book provides an overview of the discovery of liquid water on Mars and the physical and geochemical processes that cause liquid saline water to form and stabilize in cold and dry environments such as the shallow martian subsurface and some areas of the polar region. The book also analyzes the implications of the discovery of liquid water for microbial life on Mars, the most Earth-like planet in the solar system.

It explores the applications of scaling and thermodynamics to planetary sciences and explains how these concepts led to the discovery of liquid saline water on Mars. It covers the fundamental concepts necessary to understand the stability of liquid water in planetary environments.

Readership: Students and research in physics, chemistry, planetary science and atmospheric sciences.

200pp May 2015978-981-4324-73-1 US$78 £48

Notable BacklistPHYSICIST›S VIEW OF MATTER AND MIND, ADharma-Wardana Chandre (National Research Council Of Canada, Canada)

GAUGE THEORIES OF GRAVITATION: A READER WITH COMMENTARIESBlagojevic Milutin (University of Belgrade, Serbia) et al.

FIRST MAGNITUDE: A BOOK OF THE BRIGHT SKYKaler James B (Univ of Illinois At Urbana, USA)

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:: TextbookASTROPHYSICS 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

:: TextbookPLANETS: OURS AND OTHERSFrom Earth to Exoplanetsby Thérèse Encrenaz (Paris Observatory, France)

The purpose of this book is first to characterize what planets are, in their global properties and in their diversity. Then, this knowledge is used to try to imagine the physical nature of exoplanets, starting from the few parameters we know about them. Throughout, we keep in mind the ultimate question of the search for possible extraterrestrial life: Could life exist or have existed in the solar system and beyond?

Readership: Anyone interested in planets, both of the Solar System and beyond.

208pp Nov 2013978-981-4525-15-2(pbk) US$28 £18

:: TextbookBIRTH, EVOLUTION AND DEATH OF STARSby James Lequeux (Paris Observatory, France)

How stars form from interstellar matter and how they evolve and die was understood only recently, with our knowledge still incomplete. It was also realized recently that close double stars present a wide variety of extraordinary phenomena, which are far from being completely explored.

This book explains all these aspects, and also discusses how the evolution of stars determine that of galaxies. The most interesting observations are illustrated by spectacular images, while the theory is explained as simply as possible, without however avoiding some mathematical or physical developments when they are necessary for a good understanding of what happens in stars. Without being a textbook for specialists, this book can be profitably read by students or amateurs possessing some basic scientific knowledge, who would like to be initiated in-depth to the fascinating world of stars.

Readership: Students in astronomy as well as amateur astronomers.

172pp Nov 2013978-981-4508-77-3(pbk) US$26 £17

PHYSICS FROM THE EDGEA New Cosmological Model for Inertiaby Michael Edward McCulloch (University of Plymouth, UK)

The fundamental and very important property of inertia has never been well understood. This book shows how inertia has puzzled many scientists such as Galileo and Mach, and then presents a new theory that explains inertia for the first time, and also predicts galaxy rotation without dark matter, cosmic acceleration and some other anomalies. Further evidence for, and tests of, the theory are presented and exciting applications such as new inertial launch methods and the theoretical possibility of faster than light travel will be discussed. To allow readers to use the theory themselves, some simple maths is included, and to help explain the points made, there are numerous cartoons by the author.

Readership: Students and researchers in physics.

200pp Aug 2014978-981-4596-25-1 US$78 £51978-981-4596-26-8(ebook) US$101 £66

Advanced Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology - Vol 14DARK MATTER AND COSMIC WEB STORYby Jaan Einasto (Tartu Observatory, Estonia)

“A deeply humane but also political account, the book offers a fascinating insider tour into one of the most important processes of cosmology. Einasto a pioneer of dark matter research offers a thorough scientific description of the discovery of dark matter.” Anne Liljeström, Editor

Stars and Universe

“A fascinating combination of the scientific history of dark matter with personal recollections, by an author who was there both for the discovery of DM and for the (singing revolution) in Estonia.”

Virginia Trimble, Professor of AstronomyUniversity of California, Irvine

Readership: Students and professionals in astrophysics, cosmology and physics; non-experts interested in the history of science, and the life and social activity of scientists in a country occupied by Soviet Union for 50 years.

364pp Jan 2014978-981-4551-04-5 US$124 £82978-981-4551-05-2(ebook) US$161 £106

Notable BacklistDARK MATTER, NEUTRINOS, AND OUR SOLAR SYSTEMPrakash Nirmala (Formerly Of Massachusetts Inst of Technology, USA)

BLACK HOLES, COSMOLOGY AND EXTRA DIMENSIONSBronnikov Kirill A (Russian Research Inst of Metrological Service, Russia) et al.

BEYOND THE STARS: OUR ORIGINS AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSESaraceno Paolo (Univ of Rome, Italy)

ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROSCOPY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS OF ASTRONOMICAL SPECTRA (2ND EDITION)Tennyson Jonathan (Univ College London, Uk)

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Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules - Vol 1ANNUAL REVIEW OF COLD ATOMS AND MOLECULES (Volume 1)edited by Kirk W Madison (University of British Columbia, Canada), Yiqiu Wang (Peking University, China), Ana Maria Rey (JILA, University of Colorado, USA) &Kai Bongs (University of Birmingham, UK)

“The series editors have made an effort to kick off the series with pieces deemed to be as emblematic as possible of current directions in research, delineated in the four sections in the volume. The excellent quality of the presentation fits the importance and vastness of this new field in physics.”

IL Nouvo Saggiatore

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

540pp Feb 2013978-981-4440-39-4 US$98 £65978-981-4440-40-0(ebook) US$127 £84

:: Evergreen Study GuideMajor American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions - Physics PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON ATOMIC, NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICSedited by Yung-Kuo Lim (National University of Singapore)

This book, part of the seven-volume series Major American Universities PhD Qualifying Questions and Solutions contains detailed solutions to 483 questions/problems on atomic, molecular, nuclear and particle physics, as well as experimental methodology. The problems are of a standard appropriate to advanced undergraduate and graduate syllabi, and blend together two objectives — understanding of physical principles and practical application. The volume is an invaluable supplement to textbooks.

Readership: Lecturers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates in physics.

728pp Mar 2000978-981-02-3917-6 US$146 £97978-981-02-3918-3(pbk) US$82 £54

:: TextbookInterdisciplinary Research on Particle Collisions andQuantitative Spectroscopy - Vol 2FAST COLLISIONS OF LIGHT IONS WITH MATTERCharge Exchange and Ionizationby Dževad Belki (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

The principal goal of this book is to provide state-of-the-art coverage of the non-relativistic three-body theory of high-energy ion – atom collisions. The main aspects of generalizations to tissue-like molecular targets, such as water, are also outlined. The focus is on the most frequently studied two processes, single electron capture and ionization. For the studied collisions, the literature has seen enormous renewal of activity in the development and applications of quantum-mechanical theories. This subject is of great relevance in several branches of science and technology, such as accelerator-based physics, research in new sources of energy and high temperature fusion of light ions. Other important applications are in the life sciences and medicine, where high-energy ion beams are used in cancer therapy. Therefore, it is necessary to present this field in its full capacity with the primary emphasis on realistic prospects for multidisciplinary applications, especially in radiotherapy.

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 Nov 2014978-981-4366-04-5 US$110 £73

Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules - Vol 2ANNUAL REVIEW OF COLD ATOMS AND MOLECULES (Volume 2)edited by Kirk 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 present 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.

432pp May 2014978-981-4590-16-7 US$138 £91978-981-4590-17-4(ebook) US$179 £118

Notable BacklistMODERN ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS (REVISED EDITION): PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS MANUALYang Fujia (Fudan Univ, China & Univ of Nottingham, Uk) et al.

ADVANCES IN ATOMIC PHYSICS: AN OVERVIEWCohen-Tannoudji Claude (College De France & Lab Kastler Brossel, France) et al.

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MODERN ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS (Revised Edition)by Fujia Yang (Fudan University, China &Nottingham University, UK) & Joseph H Hamilton(Vanderbilt University, USA)

The book is the culmination of the authors’ many years of teaching and research in atomic physics, nuclear and particle physics, and modern physics. It is also a crystallization of their intense passion and strong interest in the history of physics and the philosophy of science.

The book gives students a broad perspective of the current understandings of the basic structures of matter from atoms, nucleus to leptons, quarks, and gluons along with the essential introductory quantum mechanics and special relativity. Fundamentals aside, the book retrospects the historical development and examines the challenging future directions of nuclear and particle physics. Interwoven within the content are up-to-date examples of very recent developments and future plans that show in detail how the techniques and ideas of atomic, nuclear, and particle physics have been used and are being used to solve important problems in basic and applied areas of physics, chemistry, and biology that are closely linked to the prevailing major societal problems in medicine, energy resources, new custom-made materials and environmental pollution, as well as areas that encroach the broad cultural and historical interest. The uncertain path of success and failure, opportunities seized and missed, and the axiom of probability and scientists’ intuition in the unfolding human drama of scientific discovery are vividly presented.

This textbook has a companion problems and solutions manual. They are available as a paperback set with Modern Atomic and Nuclear Physics (Revised Edition): Problems and Solutions Manual.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in modern atomic and nuclear physics.

812pp Jun 2010978-981-283-678-6 US$128 £84978-981-283-679-3(pbk) US$75 £50

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LECTURES ON ELECTROMAGNETISM(2nd Edition)by Ashok Das(University of Rochester, USA)

“Ashok Das is a remarkable teacher. He is precise and except ional ly clear. His arguments are logical and impeccable, which is why all his students love him ... Ashok’s lecture notes on Electromagnetism contain the essence of the subject, and reflect his care for clarity of content and simplicity in style.”

Thomas FerbelUniversity of Rochester

“Professor Das has done a superb job of explaining electricity and magnetism in his new book which is bound to become a classic. Clear, readable, and accurate, Das’ book takes the reader through all the important developments in electrodynamics.”

Michio KakuCity University of New York

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students focused on electromagnetism.

468pp Aug 2013978-981-4508-26-1 US$68 £45978-981-4508-27-8(ebook) US$88 £59

Notable BacklistWAVEFRONTS AND RAYS: AS CHARACTERISTICS AND ASYMPTOTICSSlawinski Michael (Memorial Univ, Canada) et al.

CHAOTIC PENDULUM, THEGitterman Moshe (Bar-Iian Univ, Israel)

CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC MECHANICSGluck Paul (Jerusalem College of Engineering, Israel) et al.

CLASSICAL MECHANICS / ELECTRODYNAMICS

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:: TextbookLECTURES ON CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICSby Berthold-Georg Englert (National University of 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.

250pp Sep 2014978-981-4596-92-3 US$88 £58978-981-4596-93-0(pbk) US$46 £30

:: TextbookFUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL MECHANICSA Geometrical Perspectiveby Kai S Lam (California State Polytechnic University, USA)

This book’s main purpose is to offer an introductory and broad glimpse of the majestic edifice of the mathematical theory of classical dynamics, not only in the time-honored analytical tradition of Newton, Laplace, Lagrange, Hamilton, Jacobi, and Whittaker, but also the more topological/geometrical one established by Poincare, and enriched by Birkhoff, Lyapunov, Smale, Siegel, Kolmogorov, Arnold, and Moser (as well as many others).

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in classical mechanics, mathematical physics and differential geometry.

588pp Aug 2014978-981-4551-48-9 US$96 £63

WAVES AND PARTICLESTwo Essays on Fundamental Physicsby Roger G Newton (Indiana University, USA)

The book consists of two separate parts, the first part is on waves and the second part on particles. In part 1, after describing the awesome power of tsunami and the history of their occurrences, the book turns to the history of explaining phenomena by means of mathematical equations. Then it describes other wave phenomena and the laws governing them.

In part 2, the history of the idea of atoms is reviewed, and then the scientific evidence for their existence, with Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic nucleus. The investigation of what the nucleus is like follows, including the discovery of the neutron, followed by that of the neutrino and the muon as well as the pion. The important work of Paul Dirac is described, as well as the discovery of the positron and other antiparticles. The ways by which particles are discovered are all explained, followed by the invention of the various machines to accelerate particles to high speeds. The new terminology of fermions and bosons are explained, followed by the remarkable use of group theory and group representations by matrices, whose unfamiliar algebra is carefully explained.

Readership: Academics and students of physics as well as the general public.

160pp Apr 2014978-981-4449-67-0(pbk) US$19 £13978-981-4449-68-7(ebook) US$25 £17

:: Bestselling TextbookAN INTRODUCTION TO LAGRANGIAN MECHANICSby Alain J Brizard (Saint Michael’s College, USA)

“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.”

Contemporary Physics

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics.

276pp Oct 2008978-981-281-836-2 US$99 £65978-981-281-837-9(pbk) US$56 £37

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:: TextbookPRACTICAL GUIDE TO COMPUTERSIMULATIONS 2nd Edition) (With CD-ROM)by Alexander K Hartmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

The book presents all the computational techniques and tools needed to start doing scientific research using computer simulations. The techniques in this book are independent of the field of research, hence they are suitable for conducting research projects in Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Biology or Engineering.

There are no similar comprehensive books so far. Currently, one needs many different books to learn all necessary background. Having this book, one needs basically only a second book on field-specific algorithms in order to be fully equipped to perform computer simulations research.

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.

480pp Dec 2014978-981-4571-76-0 US$108 £71978-981-4571-77-7(pbk) US$62 £41

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

:: TextbookSOLID STATE QUANTUM INFORMATION AN ADVANCED TEXTBOOKQuantum Aspect of Many-Body Systemsby Vlatko Vedral (University of Oxford, UK) & Wonmin Son (National University of 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 Aug 2015978-1-84816-764-3 US$68 £44

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)

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 Mar 2015978-981-4397-30-8 US$88 £58

Series on Photoconversion of Solar Energy - Vol 1CLEAN ELECTRICITY FROM PHOTOVOLTAICS(2nd Edition)edited by Mary D Archer (Imperial College, UK) &Martin 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.

800pp Feb 2015978-1-84816-767-4 US$198 £131

Notable BacklistGREEN'S FUNCTIONS FOR SOLID STATE PHYSICISTSDoniach S (Stanford Univ, USA) et al.

LUTTINGER MODEL: THE FIRST 50 YEARS AND SOME NEW DIRECTIONSMastropietro Vieri (Univ of Milan, Italy) et al.

WET GRANULAR MATTER: A TRULY COMPLEX FLUIDHerminghaus Stephan (Mpi for Dynamics & Self-Org, Germany)

With CD-ROM

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS / SOLID STATE PHYSICS

UNDERSTANDING THE SUPERCONDUCTIVITYIN 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 Feb 2015978-981-4354-83-7 US$180 £117

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:: Bestselling TextbookLessons from Nanoscience: A Lecture Notes Series - Vol 3THERMAL ENERGY AT THE NANOSCALEby Timothy S Fisher (Purdue University, USA)

These lecture notes provide a detailed treatment of the thermal energy storage and transport by conduction in natural and fabricated structures. Thermal energy in two carriers, i.e. phonons and electrons — are explored from first principles. For solid-state transport, a common Landauer framework is used for heat flow. Issues including the quantum of thermal conductance, ballistic interface resistance, and carrier scattering are elucidated. Bulk material properties, such as thermal and electrical conductivity, are derived from particle transport theories, and the effects of spatial confinement on these properties are established.

Readership: Students and professionals in physics and engineering.

200pp Dec 2013978-981-4449-77-9 US$98 £65978-981-4449-78-6(pbk) US$38 £25

QUANTUM DISSIPATIVE SYSTEMS(4th Edition)by Ulrich Weiss (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

This fourth edition provides a self-contained and updated account of the quantum mechanics of open systems and offers important new material including the most recent developments. The subject matter has been expanded by about fifteen percent. Many chapters have been completely rewritten to better cater to both the needs of newcomers to the field and the requests of the advanced readership. Two chapters have been added that account for recent progress in the field. This book should be accessible to all graduate students in physics. Researchers will find this a rich and stimulating source.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students; researchers in quantum statistical and condensed matter physics, in quantum/classical mechanics, in quantum information and quantum state engineering, in quantum optics, and in Bose-condensed systems.

588pp Mar 2012978-981-4374-91-0(pbk) US$90 £59978-981-4374-92-7(ebook) US$117 £77

:: Evergreen Study GuidePROBLEMS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS WITH SOLUTIONSby Fuxiang Han (Dalian University of Technology, China)

“Most teachers of Solid State Physics will find this wonderful collection of problems with solutions a great resource. This will be true for instructors dedicated to the more basic introductions of the subject, at the undergraduate level, to advanced graduate courses. From simple examples that can be used during the lectures, to homework exercises to help comprehend the material presented, to exams that measure the degree of assimilation, good problems are the core of a well-crafted course and this book is full of them.”


Readership: Undergraduate, graduate students and young researchers in physics and mathematics.

668pp Nov 2011978-981-4365-02-4 US$138 £91978-981-4366-87-8(pbk) US$78 £51

:: All-Time BestsellerPATH INTEGRALS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS, STATISTICS, POLYMER PHYSICS, AND by Hagen Kleinert (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

“... 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 ... 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.


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CRYSTAL SYMMETRY, LATTICE VIBRATIONS AND OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF SOLIDSA Group Theoretical Approachby Baldassare Di Bartolo (Boston College, USA) &Richard C Powell (University of Arizona, USA)

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the two fundamental aspects of a solid that determine its physical properties: lattice structure and atomic vibrations (phonons).

Readership: This book is an ideal upper undergraduate/graduate textbook for students in solid state physics courses as well as researchers in this area.550pp Aug 2014978-981-4579-20-9 US$98 £65978-981-4579-22-3(ebook) US$127 £85

:: TextbookLECTURE NOTES ON FIELD THEORYIN 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

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:: BestsellerSEMICONDUCTOR SPINTRONICSby Jianbai Xia (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Weikun Ge (Tsinghua University, China & Sun Yat-Sen University, China) & Kai Chang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

“Overall the book is very good. There were also many sections with a good tutorial nature. The review sections have useful tables of properties and lots of figures from literature illustrating results and how they were obtained. The overview descriptions of experiments are also generally very good. I would recommend this as a reference for researchers in the field, but also to graduate students who are guided and supplemented with other advanced courses.”


Readership: Researchers, professors, post-doctors, and graduate students interested in semiconductor spintronics.

552pp July 2012978-981-4327-90-9 US$160 £106978-981-4327-91-6(ebook) US$208 £138

:: BestsellerBCS: 50 YEARSedited by Leon N Cooper (Brown University, USA)& Dmitri Feldman (Brown University, USA)

“This exceptionally well written and edited book celebrates and reviews the state of BCS theory and experiment. … All 23 chapters are by outstanding physicists (including many Nobel prize-winners) and all were fascinating to read. I would highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone as a wonderful review of a powerful unifying concept that covers an enormous range of phenomena.” CERN Courier

Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested inBCS theory and its origin.

588pp November 2010978-981-4304-64-1 US$135 £89978-981-4304-65-8(pbk) US$48 £32978-981-4304-66-5(ebook) US$176 £116

:: Bestselling TextbookSeries on Neutron Techniques and ApplicationsNEUTRON SCATTERING IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICSby Albert Furrer (ETH Zurich & PSI Villigen, Switzerland), Joël Mesot (ETH Zurich &PSI Villigen, Switzerland) & Thierry Strässle(ETH Zurich & PSI Villigen, Switzerland)

“Overall, the text is a very readable and thorough introduction to the subject of neutron scattering techniques. The material is generally what one would want every prospective neutron scattering physics graduate student to understand, and should also be quite helpful to any researcher new to the field. The book additionally can serve as an introduction to some of the topics of current interest to condensed matter physicists.”

Neutron News

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

316pp May 2009978-981-02-4830-7 US$68 £45978-981-02-4831-4(pbk) US$32 £21

:: BestsellerWorld Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics - Vol 58CONCEPTS IN SOLIDSLectures on the Theory of Solidsby P W Anderson (Princeton University)

These lecture notes constitute a course on a number of central concepts of solid state physics — classification of solids, band theory, the developments in one-electron band theory in the presence of perturbation, effective Hamiltonian theory, elementary excitations and the various types of collective elementary excitation (excitons, spin waves and phonons), the Fermi liquid, ferromagnetic spin waves, antiferromagnetic spin waves and the theory of broken symmetry.

Readership: Condensed matter physicists.

204pp Nov 1997978-981-02-3195-8 US$43 £29978-981-02-3231-3(pbk) US$21 £14978-981-238-620-5(ebook) US$56 £37

Notable Backlist40 YEARS OF BEREZINSKII-KOSTERLITZ-THOULESS THEORYJose Jorge V (Indiana Univ, USA)

FRONTIERS OF 4D- AND 5D-TRANSITION METAL OXIDESCao Gang & Delong Lance (Univ of Kentucky, USA)

FRUSTRATED SPIN SYSTEMS (2ND EDITION)Diep Hung-The (Univ of Cergy-Pontoise, France)

QUANTUM HALL EFFECTS: RECENT THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENTS (3RD EDITION)Ezawa Zyun Francis (Tohoku Univ & Riken, Japan)

X-RAY STANDING WAVE TECHNIQUE, THE: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONSZegenhagen Jorg (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France) et al.

STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS: FROM SPIN WAVES TO STRIPES AND CHECKERBOARDSRastelli Enrico (Nat'l Council of Research, Italy)

MODERN COURSE IN THE QUANTUM THEORY OF SOLIDS, AHan Fuxiang (Dalian Univ of Technology, China)

CORRELATED ELECTRONS IN QUANTUM MATTERFulde Peter (Max-Planck-Inst for Physics of Complex Systems, Germany)

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PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN UNIVERSITY PHYSICSby Fuxiang Han, Shu Zheng & Shufeng Li (Dalian University of Technology, China)

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 2015978-981-4602-03-7(pbk) US$58 £38

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 2015978-981-4596-96-1 US$148 £98978-981-4596-97-8(pbk) US$78 £51978-981-4596-98-5(ebook) US$192 £127

GENERAL PHYSICS

EXPERIMENTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN PHYSICS (2nd Edition)by Yaakov Kraftmakher (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Reviews of the First Edition: “Kraftmakher’s book is a truly impressive work, with something for everyone ... it is aimed at anyone who wants to incorporate more and better exercises into the development or the presentation of laboratory courses or lecture demonstrations. And it is especially helpful to those who already use PASCO equipment.” Physics Today

This second edition is an extended version of the first, including new experiments and demonstrations based on the papers published by the author in 2007 – 2012.

Readership: High school students, teachers, university instructors, and academics in general physics.

750pp Dec 2014978-981-4434-88-1 US$220 £145978-981-4434-89-8(pbk) US$95 £63978-981-4434-90-4(ebook) US$286 £189

TIME IN POWERS OF TENNatural Phenomena and Their Timescalesby Gerard ‘t Hooft & Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)translated by Saskia Eisberg- ‘t HooftWith a Foreword by Steven Weinberg

In this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard ‘ t Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describe the enormous diversity of natural phenomena that take place at different time scales.

In the tradition of the bestseller Powers of Ten, the authors zoom in and out in time, each step with a factor of ten. Starting from one second, time scales are enlarged until processes are reached that take much longer than the age of the universe. After the largest possible eternities, the reader is treated to the shortest and fastest phenomena known. Then the authors increase with powers of ten, until again the second is reached at the end of the book.

At each time scale, interesting natural phenomena occur, spread over all scientific disciplines: orbital and rotation periods of planets and stars, decay times of elementary particles and atoms, biological rhythms and evolution processes, but also the different geological time scales.

Readership: Science enthusiasts and students.


PHYSICS OLYMPIAD BASIC TO ADVANCED EXERCISESby The Committee of Japan Physics Olympiad

This book contains some of the problems and solutions in the past domestic theoretical and experimental competitions in Japan for the International Physics Olympiad. Through the exercises, we aim at introducing the appeal and interest of modern physics to high-school students. In particular, the problems for the second-round of competition are like long journey of physics, beginning with fundamental physics of junior-high-school level, and ending with the forefronts of updated physics and technology.

Readership: High school students and high school teachers, as well as undergraduates.

380pp Mar 2014978-981-4556-67-5(pbk) US$48 £32978-981-4556-68-2(ebook) US$62 £42

BIRDS AND FROGSSelected Papers, 1990 – 2014by Freeman J Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study, USA)

This book is a sequel to the volume published by the American Mathematical Society in 1996 — Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary — that contains a selection of Dyson’s papers up to 1990. The current edition comprises a collection of the most interesting writings of Freeman Dyson from the period 1990 – 2014, and was personally selected by the author.

This invaluable compilation, that also contains some unpublished lectures, surveys many subjects, in science, mathematics, history and politics, in which Freeman Dyson has been active and so well respected around the world.

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

320pp Feb 2015978-981-4602-85-3 US$58 £38978-981-4602-86-0(pbk) US$28 £18978-981-4602-87-7(ebook) US$75 £49

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:: BestsellerANDREI SAKHAROVQuarks and the Structure of Matterby Harry J Lipkin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

“Concluding with a lucidly written look at the development of particle physics, this book should appeal to many general readers who want to gain a basic understanding of our knowledge of the subject without getting bogged down in mathematics.” Sun News Network

“The author’s personal account of the history of some aspects of particle physics is excellent, and valuable to all who have a genuine interest in how scientists push back the frontiers of nature.” CHOICE

Readership: General public interested in the quark model and its history.

164pp Apr 2013978-981-4407-41-0(pbk) US$14 £9978-981-4407-42-7(ebook) US$18 £12

ONE HUNDRED PHYSICS VISUALIZATIONS USING MATLAB(With DVD-ROM)by Dan Green (Fermi NationalAccelerator Laboratory, USA)

This book provides visualizations of many topics in general physics. The aim is to have an interactive MATLAB script wherein the user can vary parameters in a specific problem and then immediately see the outcome by way of dynamic “movies” of the response of the system in question. MATLAB tools are used throughout and the software scripts accompany the text in Symbolic Mathematics, Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Waves and Optics, Gases and Fluid Flow, Quantum Mechanics, Special and General Relativity, and Astrophysics and Cosmology. The emphasis is on building up an intuition by running many different parametric choices chosen actively by the user and watching the subsequent behavior of the system.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physics.


stion MATLAB tools

:: BestsellerACHIEVING THE RARERobert F Christy’s Journey in Physicsand Beyondby I-Juliana Christy (California Institute of Technology, USA)

“From the atom bomb to the frontiers of astrophysics, Bob Christy’s contributions were brilliant and seminal. In an intimate account rich with personal detail, we see up close a man of enormous energy, grace, and wisdom.” H David Politzer, Caltech

Nobel Prize in Physics 2004

“The deeper you get into this book, the more fascinating it becomes. Christy lived the problems of the 20th century which are defining many of the problems of the 21st.” Rose Bethe, widow of Hans Bethe

Nobel Prize in Physics 1967

Readership: For interested academics as well as the general public.

368pp Aug 2013978-981-4460-24-8(pbk) US$38 £25978-981-4460-25-5(ebook) US$49 £33

:: BestsellerLET THERE BE LIGHT (2nd Edition)The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxiesby Ann Breslin & Alex Montwill (University College Dublin, Ireland)

“The book has a pleasant and light narrative flow, with excellent illustrations, photos, and occasional well-chosen ‘historical interludes’. Topics are, nevertheless, treated with a good degree of rigour ... This may be the book that affords the struggling student a glimpse of the beauty that makes the serious study of physics so worthwhile.”

Professor Frank Imbusch, National University of Ireland

“Compared to the first edition, the mathematics demands have been reduced, and the last chapter has been expanded to include the potential detection of the Higgs boson in 2012. Historical interludes continue to be distinct from the main development, and the illustrations provide charming entertainment. The revisions make the main text, already instructive and well developed, more accessible and engaging to general audiences.”

CHOICE

Readership: Science students at undergraduate university level, lecturers of undergraduate and pre-university courses, graduates in physics and related sciences, and general readers.


:: BestsellerTHE SCIENCE OF ENERGYby Roger G Newton (Indiana University, USA)

“This book nicely describes the scientific aspects of the concept of energy in a language understandable to readers with no scientific background. This informative, quick read will give the reader simple explanations and an overview of the various major forms of energy and how energy is stored and transported. It is even more interesting for those with a scientific background because it provides simple explanations on complex topics that many of us maybe familiar but have never really studied or have forgotten about over time. It is also filled with background on many famous scientists and various other historical facts and certainly makes for interesting and enjoyable reading.”

IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

Readership: General public and high school students.

112pp Jul 2012978-981-4401-19-7(pbk) US$14 £9978-981-4401-21-0(ebook) US$18 £12

WHY SCIENCE?To know, to Understand, and to Rely on Resultsby Roger G Newton (Indiana University, USA)

“This very slender book is a welcome antidote to the movement, especially in the US, that denies established science such as evolution and global warming. Newton provides a framework for understanding reality.” CHOICE

This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity’s desire to know and understand the world around us through the various stages of its development to the present, when science is almost universally recognized — at least in the Western world — as the most reliable way of knowing.

Readership: Readers at all levels of inquiry.

100pp Jul 2012978-981-4397-33-9(pbk) US$14 £9978-981-4397-35-3(ebook) US$18 £12

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:: TextbookTHE WONDERS OF PHYSICS(3rd Edition)by Andrey Varlamov (Italian National Research Council, Italy) &Lev Aslamazov (Moscow Technological University, Russia)

“This ability to understand many different things using very few fundamental principles and a rational reasoning lies in the heart of physics, great science about fundamental laws of Nature. Very few authors are able to speak about these fundamentals to the laymen. The authors of this book can. Read the book and enjoy it.”

Prof. D E KhmelnitskiiCavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

“This is an informal, charming, and idiosyncratic book with a strongly personal choice of topics. Overall, a well-written, engaging text covering both nonstandard and appropriate subjects.” CHOICE

The book in your hands develops the best traditions of Russian scientific popular literature. Written in a clear and captivating manner by working theoretical physicists, who are, at the same time, dedicated popularizers of scientific knowledge, it brings to the reader the latest achievements in quantum solid-state physics, but along the way also shows how the laws of physics reveal themselves even in seemingly trivial episodes concerning the natural phenomena around us. Most importantly, it shows that we live in a world where scientists are capable of “proving harmony with algebra”. — A A Abrikosov, 2003 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics

The third edition is considerably extended with three new chapters where the author discusses exciting examples of applications of recent achievements of physics in medicine, nanotechnologies, and physics in cuisine.

Readership: General readers and individuals with an interest in physics.

328pp Apr 2012978-981-4374-15-6 US$68 £45

:: BestsellerUNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSEFrom Quarks to the Cosmos (Revised Edition)by Don Lincoln (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)

“Don Lincoln takes us on a rollicking tour of the universe: The reader finds out what we particle physicists understand about it, how we arrived at that understanding and where we think we’re going next with our research ... Lincoln enlivens the landscape with fresh details, irreverent (yet never unkind) remarks on the cast of characters, and explanations that are homey, humorous and often completely original ... In his epilogue Lincoln addresses explicitly the question of why particle physicists ask why ... the real reason we do research is simply this: It’s tremendously fun to figure the universe out.” American Scientist

“This book is addressed to the curious layman, with only a murky recollection of school physics, who wants to know how far mankind has gone in understanding the world around us ... It is an excellent reference for any scientist who is occasionally unsure how best to explain a particular physics concept to a non-specialist audience ... his understanding and explanations of complex phenomena are excellent and the book strikes a balance between depth and accessibility.”

CERN Courier

Readership: Students, scientists and lay people.


:: TextbookPHYSICS AROUND USHow and Why Things Workby Ernest M Henley & J Gregory Dash (University of Washington, USA)

“This text illustrates several aspects of Physics, including the most recent; it would be a useful compendium for non-specialists with a healthy scientific and cultural interest in this discipline.”

Il Nuovo Saggiatore

This book is suitable for a first year, non-calculus physics course. It covers mechanics, fluids, gravitation, thermal physics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics, including atoms, an introduction to quantum mechanics, special relativity, and nuclear and particle physics. Trigonometric functions and vectors are introduced as needed.

Readership: Advanced high school students, beginning college students and all individuals interested in transition school physics.

384pp Apr 2012978-981-4350-63-1(pbk) US$34 £22

:: BestsellerMORE AND DIFFERENTNotes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeonby Philip W Anderson (Princeton University, USA)

“Philip W Anderson is the doyen of present-day condensed matter physics, and has written widely and provocatively on many subjects both within and without the discipline.This collection of his essays is guaranteed to instruct, amuse and in some cases annoy readers irrespective of their specialist backgrounds.”

Anthony Leggett, Nobel Laureate

“Anderson has put together an entertaining and instructive collection of highly readable reviews, columns, talks, and unpublished essays on science and the scientists he has known. He is rarely inappropriately provocative, and he is a pleasure to read.” Physics Today

Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today, USA.


424pp Sep 2011978-981-4350-12-9 US$78 £51978-981-4350-13-6(pbk) US$38 £25978-981-4350-14-3(ebook) US$101 £67

:: BestsellerASIAN PHYSICS OLYMPIAD 1ST8THProblems and Solutionsedited by Yongling Zheng (Fudan University, China)

This book compiles all of the test problems and solutions from the 1st through the 8th Asian Physics Olympiad. Test questions of every paper consist of two parts, a theory section and an experiment section, before which minutes of teams and results of each competition are introduced. It is a rather desirable reference book for both students and teachers of international competition training as well as middle school student contestants.

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

320pp Oct 2009978-981-4271-43-1(pbk) US$45 £30978-981-4271-44-8(ebook) US$59 £39

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POETRY OF PHYSICS AND THE PHYSICS OF POETRY, THELogan Robert K (Univ Of Toronto, Canada)

JOY OF THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE, THE: A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR DAN TSUIWong Cheuk-Yin (Oak Ridge Nat›l Lab, USA) et al.

NONLINEAR PHYSICS FOR BEGINNERS: FRACTALS, CHAOS, SOLITONS, PATTERN FORMATION, CELLULAR AUTOMATA AND COMPLEX SYSTEMSLui Lam (San Jose State Univ, USA)

:: Bestselling TextbookINTRODUCTION TO MODERN PHYSICSTheoretical Foundationsby John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary, USA)

“The author is obviously well versed in both teaching and writing about the topics covered, and the presentation is mostly clear and concise ... the text is complemented and expanded by numerous well-chosen exercises.” Physics Today

“This well-written book is devoted to modern physics that was revolutionized in the last century ... With few exceptions the monograph is self-contained. The book is also useful for practicing scientists treating basic principles and a wide range of applications.” Zentralblatt MATH

Readership: Upper-level undergraduate physics or science students, research scientists and engineers.

496pp Aug 2008978-981-281-224-7 US$128 £84978-981-281-225-4(pbk) US$73 £48

:: All-Time BestsellerFUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATUREThe Story of Gauge Fieldsby Kerson Huang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

“The book delivers what it implicitly promises: an instructive and thoughtful tour of 20th century physics, with special emphasis on the theory of the fundamental constituents of matter and forces among them.” Physics Today

“This volume is an excellent survey on gauge fields, which presents the relevant facts, people and events of the subjacent theory.”

Zentralblatt MATH

Readership: Students of physics and interested general readers.


:: All-Time BestsellerFANTASTIC REALITIES49 Mind Journeys and A Trip to Stockholmby Frank Wilczek (MIT)

“Wilczek’s writing is deeply intellectual. The essays are centred around QFT but range far more widely. They display a sensitive appreciation of subtle features of the culture of modern physical science ... it is fascinating to see Wilczek circling round the same set of ideas. There is much concentrated wisdom here, and he has a deft touch with words.” Nature

“Overall, this is a mind-bending book that you will want to come back to and reread; you will certainly have to, if you want to understand it properly.”

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:: Bestselling TextbookCLASSICAL MECHANICS(5th Edition)by Tom W B Kibble & Frank H Berkshire (Imperial College London, UK)

“Classical Mechanics by T Kibble and F Berkshire is tailor-made for budding theoreticians. It lays the groundwork for relativity and quantum theory, quickly progressing beyond Newtonian mechanics to the alternative formulations of Joseph Lagrange and William Hamilton.” New Scientist

“This volume, by Kibble and Berkshire, has proved to be a successful book ... the written content and presentation are all excellent.”

European Journal of Physics

Readership: Undergraduates in physics and applied mathematics.

500pp Jun 2004978-1-86094-424-6 US$86 £57978-1-86094-435-2(pbk) US$33 £22

:: Evergreen Study GuideMajor American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions - Physics PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON SOLID STATE PHYSICS, RELATIVITY AND MISCELLANEOUS TOPICSedited by Yung-Kuo Lim (National University of Singapore)

The material for this series was selected from the past 20 years’ examination questions for graduate students at the University of California (Berkeley), Columbia University, the University of Chicago, MIT, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin.

This volume comprises 165 problems. The section on Solid State Physics includes crystal structures and properties, electron theory, energy bands and semiconductors. The Relativity section covers both the special and general theories. Topics that were not appropriate for the other 6 volumes in this series appear here under the heading of Miscellaneous Topics.

Readership: Graduate students, senior students, physics lecturers and instructors.

364pp Dec 1994978-981-02-1892-8 US$149 £99978-981-02-1893-5(pbk) US$56 £37

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:: Evergreen Study GuideMajor American Universities Ph.D. QualifyingQuestions and Solutions - Physics PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON MECHANICSedited by Yung-Kuo Lim (National University of Singapore)

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

Readership: Graduate students, senior students and physics instructors.

768pp Nov 1994978-981-02-1295-7 US$149 £99978-981-02-1298-8(pbk) US$73 £48

:: Bestselling TextbookGROUP THEORY IN PHYSICSAn Introduction to Symmetry Principles, Group Representations, and Special Functions in Classical and Quantum Physicsby Wu-Ki Tung (Michigan State University, USA)

“This book is written to meet precisely this need of the lack of suitable textbooks on general group-theoretical methods in physics for all serious students of experimental and theoretical physics at the beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate level.”

Physics Briefs

“This book is well organized and the material is presented in an appealing and easily absorbed style, ... comes closer than any other to being a modern version of Wigner’s classic Group Theory and its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra.”

Foundations of Physics

Readership: Graduate and advanced undergraduate students in physics.

336pp Aug 1985978-9971-966-57-7(pbk) US$55 £36

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.


QCD AND HEAVY QUARKSIn Memoriam Nikolai Uraltsevedited by Ikaros I Bigi (University of Notre Dame, USA),Paolo Gambino (University of Torino, Italy) & Thomas Mannel (Universität Siegen, Germany)

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.

200pp Mar 2015978-981-4602-73-0 US$68 £45

Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics - Vol 22PERSPECTIVES ON STRING PHENOMENOLOGYedited by Gordon Kane (University of Michigan,USA), Bobby Acharya (King’s College London,UK) & Piyush Kumar (Yale University, USA)

This book contains perspectives on string phenomenology from some of the leading experts in the field. Contributions will range from pedagogical general overviews and perspectives to more technical reviews. We hope that the reader will get a sense of the significant progress that has been made in the field in recent years (e.g. in the topic of moduli stabilization) as well as the topics currently being researched, outstanding problems and some perspectives for the future

Readership: Physicists and graduates interested in string theory.

500pp Dec 2014978-981-4602-66-2 US$128 £84978-981-4602-68-6(ebook) US$166 £109

Notable BacklistTAMING THE FORCES BETWEEN QUARKS AND GLUONS - CALORONS OUT OF THE BOX: SCIENTIFIC PAPERS BY PIERRE VAN BAALVan Baal Pierre (Inst-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, The Netherlands) et al.

SELECTED PAPERS OF CHEN NING YANG II: WITH COMMENTARIESYang Chen Ning (Tsinghua Univ, China & Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

THREE-PARTICLE PHYSICS AND DISPERSION RELATION THEORYAnisovich A V (Russian Academy of Science, Russia) et al.

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A THEORY OF SCATTERING FOR QUASIFREE PARTICLESby Raymond F Streater (King’s College London, UK)

In this book, the author presents the theory of quasifree quantum fields and argues that they could provide non-zero scattering for some particles. The free-field representation of the quantised transverse electromagnetic field is not closed in the weak*-topology. Its closure contains soliton – anti-soliton pairs as limits of two-photon states as time goes to infinity, and the overlap probability can be computed using Uhlmann’s prescription. There are no free parameters: the probability is determined with no requirement to specify any coupling constant. All cases of the Shale transforms of the free field –– of the form + , where is not in the one-particle space, are treated in the book. There remain the cases of the Shale transforms of the form T , where T is a symplectic map on the one-particle space, not near the identity.

Readership: Graduate students and professional.

124pp Nov 2014978-981-4612-06-7 US$79 £52978-981-4612-08-1(ebook) US$103 £68

LEPTONS AND QUARKS(Special Edition Commemoratingthe Discovery of the Higgs Boson)by Lev B Okun (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Russia)

The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, is to reflect the various stages of this 30+ years search.

The book is unique in communicating the Electroweak Theory at a basic level and in connecting the concept of Lorenz invariant mass with the concept of the Extended Standard Model, which includes gravitons as the carriers of gravitational interaction.

Readership: Suitable for library or as a reference book on flavor physics.

400pp Jan 2001978-981-4603-00-3 US$86 £57978-981-4603-13-3(ebook) US$112 £74

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF THE 90TH BIRTHDAY OF FREEMAN DYSON Nanyang Technological University, Singapore26 – 29 August 2013, 2013edited by K K Phua (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), L C Kwek (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), N P Chang (City College of New York, USA) &A H Chan (National University of Singapore)

This memorable volume collects an interesting lecture by Professor Dyson, Is a Graviton Detectable?, contributions by speakers at the conference, as well as guest contributions by colleagues who celebrated Dyson’s birthday at Rutgers University and Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Readership: Academics and students interested in high energy physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and condensed matter physics.


World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics - Vol 44SYMMETRIES IN NATUREThe Scientific Heritage of Louis Micheledited by Thibault Damour (Institut des HautesEtudes Scientifiques, France), Ivan Todorov (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgaria) & Boris Zhilinskii (Universitédu Littoral, France)

Reflecting the oeuvre of “a man of two cultures: the culture of pure mathematics and the culture of theoretical physics” (in the words of his long time friend and co-author, Kameshwar Wali), this volume is centred around the notion of symmetry and its breaking. Starting with particle physics, the content proceeds to symmetries of matter, defects, and crystals. The mathematics of group extensions, non-linear group action, critical orbits and phase transitions is developed along the way. The symmetry principles and general mathematical tools provide unity in the treatment of different topics. The papers and lecture notes are preceded by a lively biography of Louis Michel and a commentary that relates his selected works both to the physics of his time and to contemporary trends.

Readership: Graduate students, researchers, theoretical physicists, chemists, applied mathematicians and historians of science.

440pp Apr 2014978-981-4551-36-6 US$125 £83

FROM PHOTONS TO HIGGSA Story of Light(2nd Edition)by Moo-Young Han (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea & Duke University, USA)

This book presents a brief introduction to the quantum field theory of the Standard Model for quarks and leptons. With minimal use of mathematics, it covers the basics of quantum field theory, local gauge field theory, spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism, the Higgs mechanism and quantum chromodynamics.

From the time when the first edition was published until today, the field of particle physics has seen some major break-through with the possible discovery of Higgs particle, also known as the Higgs boson. In the second edition, the famous Higgs mechanism is included to explain the symmetry breaking in the Standard Model and the origin of mass, and all of this is explained in high-school level algebra.

Readership: Students, researchers, academics and non-specialists interested in quantum field theory.


Notable BacklistSILICON SOLID STATE DEVICES AND RADIATION DETECTIONLeroy Claude (Univ De Montreal, Canada) et al.

FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO PERTURBATIVE METHODS IN GAUGE THEORIES (3RD EDITION)Muta Taizo (Fukuyama Univ, Japan)

FIELD THEORY, THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP, AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA: GRAPHS TO COMPUTERS (3RD EDITION)Amit Daniel (Hebrew Univ, Israel & Univ Di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy) et al.

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MODERN FUNCTIONAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORYSumming Feynman Graphsby Herbert M Fried (Brown University, USA)

These pages offer a simple, analytic, functional approach to non-perturbative QFT, using a frequently overlooked functional representation of Fradkin to explicitly calculate relevant portions of the Schwinger Generating Functional (GF). In QED, this corresponds to summing all Feynman graphs representing virtual photon exchange between charged particles. It is then possible to see, analytically, the cancellation of an infinite number of perturbative, UV logarithmic divergences, leading to an approximate but most reasonable statement of finite charge renormalization.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in quantum field theory.

280pp Mar 2014978-981-4415-87-3 US$98 £65978-981-4415-89-7(ebook) US$127 £85

World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics - Vol 43NAMBUA Foreteller of Modern Physicsedited by T Eguchi (Rikkyo University, Japan) & M Y Han (KAIST, Korea)

In this book, we collect what we consider to be the most prophetic of Nambu’s papers for the benefit of current and future generations of particle physicists of the world and made them easily accessible for all. It also contains articles never published before in a book form. This text is not only of historical value but also provides a window to the mind of a man many refer to as “Nambu the seer.”

A must-have book for future researchers of elementary particle theory and for those interested in the history of modern physics.

Readership: Researchers in elementary particle physics and history of modern physics.

228pp Feb 2014978-981-4578-14-1 US$68 £45978-981-4583-05-3(pbk) US$35 £23

SYMMETRY AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: TOM KIBBLE AT 80Tom Kibble at 80Imperial College London, 13 March 2013edited by Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College London, UK)

Tom Kibble is an inspirational theoretical physicist who has made profound contributions to our understanding of the physical world. To celebrate his 80th birthday a one-day symposium was held on March 13, 2013 at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London. This important volume is a compilation of papers based on the presentations that were given at the symposium.

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


MICROCOSMOS: THE WORLD OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLESFictional Discussions between Einstein, Newton, and Gell-Mannby Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

This book provides the readers with a broad introduction to the field of particle physics through fictional discussions between three prominent physicists — Albert Einstein, Issac Newton, and Murray Gell-Mann — together with a modern physicist.

Matter is composed of quarks and electrons. The forces between quarks are generated by exchanges of gluons and are so strong that they result in the confinement of quarks in atomic nuclei, whereas the forces between electrons and atomic nuclei are generated by exchanges of photons, and the forces between quarks and electrons (or any other leptons) are generated by exchanges of weak bosons.

Readership: General readers, students and researchers in physics.

128pp Dec 2013978-981-4449-98-4 US$28 £18

:: TextbookDIFFERENTIAL MANIFOLDSA Basic Approach for Experimental Physicistsby Paul Baillon (CERN, Switzerland)

This book gives a comprehensive description of the basics of differential manifold with a full proof of any element. A large part of the book is devoted to the basic mathematical concepts in which all necessary for the development of the differential manifold is expounded and fully proved.

This book is self-consistent: it starts from first principles. The mathematical framework is the set theory with its axioms and its formal logic. No special knowledge is needed.

Readership: Undergraduates in particle physics, astrophysics and mathematical physics.

592pp Jan 2014978-981-4449-56-4 US$86 £57

ABC OF PHYSICSA Very Brief Guideby Lev Okun (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Russia)

“Can the universe and everything in it be explained in a compact book that fits in your pocket? Professor Okun shows that it can. In doing so, he illustrates the beauty and the power of the fundamental concepts of physics.”

Michael E. PeskinSLAC National Accelerator Lab

“It is like using Google Earth to zoom in on the complex metropolis that is quantum theory, providing a delightful and often surprising overview.”

Physics World

Readership: College students and interested readers in the physical sciences.

168pp Mar 2012978-981-4397-27-8 US$28 £18978-981-4397-28-5(ebook) US$36 £24

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THE NEUTRONA Tool and an Object in Nuclear and Particle Physicsby Hans G Börner (Institut Laue Langevin, France) &Friedrich Gönnenwein (University of Tübingen, Germany)

“The style is succinct and very focused for the chapter on nuclear fission. The authors manage to give us a panorama of the experimental situation, which in itself is not easy at all. It is a useful reference to keep in hand.”

IL Nouvo Saggiatore

The reactor-based laboratory at the Institut Laue-Langevin is recognized as the world’s most productive and reliable source of slow neutrons for the study of low energy particle and nuclear physics. The book highlights the impact of about 600 very diverse publications about work performed in these fields during the past more than 30 years of reactor operation at this institute.

Readership: Researchers, postgraduates and graduate students in the nuclear and particle physics.

284pp Feb 2012978-981-4273-08-4 US$101 £67978-981-4277-00-6(ebook) US$131 £86

:: Bestselling TextbookSUBATOMIC PHYSICS(3rd Edition)by 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

:: BestsellerAN 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

:: BestsellerFACTS AND MYSTERIES IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICSby Martinus J G Veltman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA & NIKHEF, The Netherlands)

“Veltman’s life spans the history of particle physics, from Antiparticles toZ bosons. So does his crystal clear book, which tells all you want to know about the strange sub-nuclear world and the stranger scientists that study it ... a thrilling tale about the world’s tiniest things.”

Sheldon GlashowNobel laureate

Boston University

“… Not only have you explained the physics of the world of elementary particles to the young aspiring student, but you have made it available to the intelligent layman. On top of that you gave it the humanity it deserves; reading this book brought me back to the most exciting period of my life in which every day brought a new discovery and we all fought for recognition. I can truly say that there is no book like this.”

Melvin SchwartzNobel laureate

Columbia University

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


Notable Backlist50 YEARS OF YANG-MILLS THEORY'T HOOFT Gerardus (Utrecht Univ, The Netherlands)

THEORY AND PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPARTICLES: AN ACCOUNT OF FOUR-DIMENSIONAL N=1 SUPERSYMMETRY IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICSDrees Manuel (Univ of Bonn, Germany) et al.

INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS (2ND EDITION)Das Ashok & Ferbel Thomas (Univ of Rochester, USA)

GROUP THEORY IN PHYSICS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONSAivazis Michael (California Inst of Technology, USA)

COVARIANT OPERATOR FORMALISM OF GAUGE THEORIES AND QUANTUM GRAVITYNakanishi N & Ojima I (Kyoto Univ, Japan)

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:: BestsellerQUARKS, LEPTONS AND GAUGE FIELDS (2nd Edition)by Kerson Huang (MIT)

This is perhaps the most up-to-date book on Modern Elementary Particle Physics. The main content is an introduction to Yang-Mills fields, and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A concise introduction to quarks is provided, with a discussion of the representations of SU(3).

This second edition, which has been expanded, incorporates the following new subjects: Wilson’s renormalization scheme, and its relation to perturbative renormalization; pitfalls in quantizing gauge fields, such as the Gribov ambiguity; the lattice as a consistent regularization; Monte Carlo methods of solution; and the issues, folklores, and scenarios of quark confinement. More than a quarter of the book comprise of new materials.

Readership: High energy, mathematical and nuclear physicists.

348pp Oct 1992978-981-02-0659-8 US$119 £78978-981-02-0660-4(pbk) US$67 £44

:: Bestselling TextbookAN ELEMENTARY PRIMER FOR GAUGE THEORYby K Moriyasu

“This is a first-rate entry to the subject ... It is a deal deeper than the wordy analogies and parables that must suffice for the usual popular accounts.”

Scientific American, USA

Gauge theory is now recognized as one of the most revolutionary discoveries in physics since the development of quantum mechanics. This primer explains how and why gauge theory has dramatically changed our view of the fundamental forces of nature. The text is designed for the non-specialist. A new, intuitive approach is used to make the ideas of gauge theory accessible to both scientists and students with only a background in quantum mechanics. Emphasis is placed on the physics rather than the formalism.

Readership: Students and researchers in high energy physics and mathematical physics.

192pp Oct 1983978-9971-950-83-5 US$63 £41978-9971-950-94-1(pbk) US$31 £20

NEW SUPERCONDUCTORS: FROM GRANULARTO HIGH TC (2nd Edition)by 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 Mar 2015978-981-283-888-9 US$115 £76978-981-283-889-6(pbk) US$68 £45

RELATIVISTIC LASERPLASMABASED PARTICLE BEAMS AND RADIATION SOURCESedited by Zheng-Ming Sheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China & University of Strathclyde, UK), Kazuhisa Nakajima (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), 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 2015978-981-4602-39-6 US$98 £65978-981-4602-40-2(ebook) US$127 £85

LASER50 Years of Discoveriesby Fabien Bretenaker (Laboratoire AiméCotton, France), Nicolas Treps (University Pierreand Marie Curie, France)

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.

This book addresses every aspects of laser light, from its fundamental principles to its industrial applications, at a level particularly suited for high school teachers, students, and anybody curious about science and technology.

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

170pp Dec 2014978-981-4612-40-1 US$48 £32978-981-4612-41-8(ebook) US$62 £42

Notable BacklistLASER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEEl-Nadi Lotfia M & Mansour Mohy S (Cairo Univ, Egypt)

LASER CLEANING IIKane Deb M (Macquarie Univ, Sydney, Australia)

TUNABLE EXTERNAL CAVITY DIODE LASERSYe Cunyun (Texas A&M Univ, USA)

LASER PHYSICS

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WATERMolecular Structure and Propertiesby Xiao Feng Pang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

This book provides a broad and complete introductions to the molecular structure, novel and anomalous properties, nonlinear excitations, soliton motions, magnetization, and biological effects of water. These subjects are described by both experimental results and theoretical analyses. These contents are very interesting and helpful to elucidate and explain the problem of “what is on earth water”. This book contains the research results of the author and plenty of scientists in recent decades.

Readership: Graduate students in Physics and Biology, researchers and engineers in Physics, Biology and water science.

492pp Mar 2014978-981-4440-42-4 US$128 £84978-981-4440-43-1(ebook) US$166 £109

MOLECULAR PHYSICS

:: TextbookNUCLEAR RADIATION INTERACTIONSby Sidney Yip (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

This book is a treatment on the foundational knowledge of Nuclear Science and Engineering. It is an outgrowth of a first-year graduate-level course which the author has taught over the years in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. The emphasis of the book is on concepts in nuclear science and engineering in contrast to the traditional nuclear physics in a nuclear engineering curriculum. The essential difference lies in the importance we give to the understanding of nuclear radiation and their interactions with matter.

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

350pp Dec 2014978-981-4368-07-0 US$68 £45

NUCLEAR PHYSICS

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES FOR THERMONUCLEAR FUSION RESEARCHby Ernesto Mazzucato (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA)

The science of magnetically confined plasmas covers the entire spectrum of physics from classical and relativistic electrodynamics to quantum mechanics. During the last sixty years of research, our initial primitive understanding of plasma physics has made impressive progress thanks to a variety of experiments.

The primary objective of this book is to discuss the fundamental physics upon which the application of electromagnetic waves to the study of magnetically confined plasmas is based.

Readership: Advanced students and professionals who are interested in thermonuclear plasmas.

224pp May 2014978-981-4571-80-7 US$78 £51978-981-4571-81-4(ebook) US$101 £66

thanks to a variety of

:: Bestseller100 YEARS OF SUBATOMIC PHYSICSedited by Ernest M Henley & Stephen D Ellis (University of Washington, USA)

“Each essay’s overall breadth and understanding are impressive, and the separate chapters combine to make this work an unprecedented survey of sub-atomic physics research spanning the last 100 years, with insights into where it might head in the century to come.”

Australian Physics

Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested in nuclear and particle physics.

560pp Aug 2013978-981-4425-79-7 US$88 £58978-981-4425-80-3(pbk) US$48 £32978-981-4425-81-0(ebook) US$114 £75

LIFE AT THE CENTER OF THE ENERGY CRISISA Technologist’s Search for a Black Swanby George H Miley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

“Miley includes pictures and graphics to set the historical tone and illustrate scientific concepts, both of which add to his colorful narrative. Readers with an interest in the principles or the history of nuclear energy, or of its future in post-Cold War era — will find much to interest them in this book.”

Inside Illinois

Readership: Undergraduates and PhDs, as well as anyone in the general public interested in the history of the field.

236pp Jun 2013978-981-4436-48-9 US$38 £25978-981-4436-50-2(ebook) US$49 £33

Notable BacklistFIFTY YEARS OF NUCLEAR BCS: PAIRING IN FINITE SYSTEMSBroglia Ricardo A (Univ of Copenhagen, Denmark) et al.

NEUTRON PHYSICS FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS BY ENRICO FERMIEsposito Salvatore & Pisanti Ofelia (Univ Di Napoli 'Federico II' & Infn Sezione Di Napoli, Italy)

NUCLEAR COLLECTIVE MOTION: MODELS AND THEORYRowe David J (Univ of Toronto, Canada)

FUNDAMENTALS OF NUCLEAR MODELS: FOUNDATIONAL MODELSRowe David J (Univ of Toronto, Canada)

THEORETICAL NUCLEAR AND SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS, 2ND EDITIONWalecka John Dirk (Coll of William & Mary, USA)

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OPTICS

ENHANCED LIGHTMATTER INTERACTION IN ULTRAHIGHQ 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 Nov 2015978-981-4566-06-3 US$88 £58978-981-4566-07-0(ebook) US$114 £75

XRAY 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 Aug 2015978-1-908977-31-1 US$78 £51978-1-908977-32-8(ebook) US$101 £67

Series on Archaeology and History of Science in China - Vol 1HISTORY OF MODERN OPTICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS DEVELOPMENT IN CHINAedited by Fuxi Gan (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) & 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.

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

392pp Jul 2014978-981-4518-75-8 US$128 £84978-981-4518-76-5(ebook) US$166 £109

and optoelectronics in

VECTORIAL OPTICAL FIELDSFundamentals and Applicationsedited by Qiwen Zhan (University of Dayton, USA)

This edited review volume aims to provide a comprehensive overview and summarize the latest developments in this important emerging field of optics. This book will cover the fundamentals including mathematical and physical descriptions, experimental generat ion, manipulat ion, focusing, propagation, and the applications of the engineered vectorial optical fields in focal field engineering, plasmonic focusing and optical antenna, single molecular imaging, optical tweezers/trapping, as well as optical measurements and instrumentations.

Readership: Students, professionals, post-graduate and academic researchers in the areas of physics, optics and electrical engineering.

292pp Jan 2014978-981-4449-88-5 US$98 £65978-981-4449-89-2(ebook) US$127 £84

:: Evergreen Study GuideMajor American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions - Physics PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON OPTICSedited by Yung-Kuo Lim (National University of Singapore)


Readership: Graduate students, senior students and teachers of physics department.

204pp Feb 1991978-981-02-0438-9 US$98 £64978-981-02-0439-6(pbk) US$54 £36

Notable BacklistHANDBOOK ON OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF METALS, THE: IN TABLES AND FIGURESAdachi Sadao (Gunma Univ, Japan)

PHOTONICS FOR SAFETY AND SECURITYCutolo Antonello (Univ Degli Studi Del Sannio, Italy) et al.

GENERALIZED OPTOMECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS: QUANTUM OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF GENERALIZED OPTOMECHANICAL SYSTEMLi Jin-Jin (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, China) et al.

PRINCIPLES OF DIFFUSE LIGHT PROPAGATION: LIGHT PROPAGATION IN TISSUES WITH APPLICATIONS IN BIOLOGYAND MEDICINERipoll Lorenzo Jorge (Foundation For Research & Technology - Hellas, Greece)

ENGINEERING OPTICS WITH MATLAB?Poon Ting-Chung (Virginia Tech, USA)et al.

NONLINEAR OPTICS (4TH EDITION)Bloembergen Nicolaas (Univ of Arizona, USA)

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:: TextbookCONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR FUSIONby Jean Louis Bobin (UniversitéPierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France)

The book is a presentation of the basic principles and main achievements in the field of nuclear fusion. It encompasses both magnetic and inertial confinements plus a few exotic mechanisms for nuclear fusion. The state-of-the-art regarding thermonuclear reactions, hot plasmas, tokamaks, laser-driven compression and future reactors is given.

Readership: Students as well as the general public with a background in physical sciences.

216pp May 2014978-981-4590-68-6 US$68 £45

:: TextbookSHORT PULSE LASER INTERACTIONS WITH MATTER (2nd Edition)by 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 Jun 2015978-1-84816-865-7 US$88 £58

PHYSICS WITH TRAPPED CHARGED PARTICLESLectures from the Les Houches Winter Schooledited by Martina Knoop (CNRS, France& Universitéd’Aix-Marseille, France), Niels Madsen (Swansea University, UK)& Richard C Thompson (Imperial College London, UK)

This book is a collection of articles on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles by speakers at the Les Houches Winter School. The articles cover all types of physics with charged particles, and are aimed at introducing the basic issues at hand, as well as the latest developments in the field. It is appropriate for PhD students and early career researchers, or interested parties new to the area.

Readership: University and college students undertaking mechanical, aerospace, electromechanical, engineering or applied mechanics programs.


:: TextbookTHE THEORY OF TOROIDALLY CONFINED PLASMAS(3rd Edition)by Roscoe B White (Princeton University, USA)

This edition has been extended in a number of ways. The material on mode-particle interactions has been reformulated and much new information added, including methodology for Monte Carlo implementation of mode destabilization. These results give explicit means of carrying out mode destabilization analysis, in particular for the dangerous fishbone mode. A new chapter on cyclotron motion in toroidal geometry has been added, with comparisons of the analysis of resonances using guiding center results. A new chapter on the use of lithium lined walls has been added, a promising means of lowering the complexity and cost of full scale fusion reactors. A section on nonlocal transport has been added, including an analysis of Levy flight simulations of ion transport in the reversed field pinch in Padova, RFX.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the field of thermonuclear fusion.

528pp Jan 2014978-1-78326-363-9 US$88 £58

Notable BacklistPLASMA RESEARCH AT THE LIMIT: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TO APPLICATIONS ON EARTH (WITH DVD-ROM)Morfill Gregor (Max-Planck-Inst For Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany) et al.

BASIC SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS (REVISED EDITION)Baumjohann Wolfgang (Austrian Academy Of Sciences, Austria) et al.

PRINCIPLES OF FUSION ENERGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO FUSION ENERGY FOR STUDENTS OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGMiley G H (Univ Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) et al.

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHYby Gerald Gilbert (MITRE Quantum Information Science Group, USA), Yaakov S Weinstein (MITRE Quantum Information Science Group, USA) & Michael Hamrick (MITRE Integrated Communications Networks & Sensors Department, USA)

This book provides a detailed account of the theory and practice of quantum cryptography. Suitable as the basis for a course in the subject at the graduate level, it crosses the disciplines of physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering. The theoretical and experimental aspects of the subject are derived from first principles, and attention is devoted to the practical development of realistic quantum communications systems. The book also includes a comprehensive analysis of practical quantum cryptography systems implemented in actual physical environments via either free-space or fiber-optic cable quantum channels.

Readership: Researchers, scientists, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and communications engineers in the field of quantum physics.

250pp Jun 2015978-981-283-934-3 US$88 £61

PLASMA PHYSICS

QUANTUM PHYSICS / QUANTUM MECHANICS / QUANTUM INFORMATION

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MIND AND REALITYThe Space-Time Windowby Wolfram Schommers (University of Texas at Arlington, USA & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

The relationship between mind and reality is usually perceived as an event that takes place in reality and producing simultaneously an internal image in the mind. So it takes place twice, so to speak, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two events. Within this conception, matter is embedded in space and time, and can be designated as “container-principle”. This monograph emphasizes that the well-known philosopher Immanuel Kant denied this principle and he stated that reality is principally not recognizable to a human being, and modern biological evolution seems to lead exactly to Kant’s point of view.

Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested in quantum physics and evolutionary biology.


Cold Atoms - Vol 3QUANTUM GAS EXPERIMENTSExploring Many-Body Statesedited by Päivi Törmä (Aalto University, Finland) & Klaus Sengstock (University of Hamburg, Germany)

This book addresses the need for a comprehensive description of the most important advanced experimental methods and techniques that have been developed along with the theoretical framework in a clear and applicable format. The focus is on methods that are especially crucial in probing and understanding the many-body nature of the quantum phenomena in ultracold gases and most topics are covered both from a theoretical and experimental viewpoint, with interrelated chapters written by experts from both sides of research.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers working in the field of ultracold gases, and researchers in other fields interested in learning about the potential of ultracold gases as a quantum simulator of many-body physics.

350pp Oct 2014978-1-78326-474-2 US$105 £69978-1-78326-475-9(pbk) US$56 £37978-1-78326-476-6(ebook) US$137 £90

:: TextbookQUANTUM MECHANICSA Modern Development(2nd Edition)by Leslie E Ballentine (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Review of the First Edition: “... the book is of greatest benefit to students of quantum mechanics who want to learn more than solely computational recipes and predictive tools of the theory, and, in this sense, the book really fills a gap in the literature.” Mathematical Reviews

In this edition a new chapter on quantum information is added. As the topic is still in a state of rapid development, a comprehensive treatment is not feasible. The emphasis is on the fundamental principles and a few key applications. The impact of quantum information theory on the foundations of quantum mechanics is discussed. In addition, there will be minor revisions to several chapters.

Readership: Students, lecturers and researchers in quantum mechanics.

720pp Oct 2014978-981-4578-57-8 US$115 £76978-981-4578-58-5(pbk) US$75 £50

QUANTUM FRACTALSFrom Heisenberg’s Uncertainty to Barnsley’s Fractalityby Arkadiusz Jadczyk (Quantum Future Group Inc., USA)

Starting with numerical algorithms resulting in new kinds of amazing fractal patterns on the sphere, this book describes the theory underlying these phenomena and indicates possible future applications. The book also explores the following questions: • What are fractals?• How do fractal patterns emerge from quantum observations and

relativistic light aberration effects?• What are the open problems with iterated function systems based on

Mobius transformations?• Can quantum fractals be experimentally detected?• What are quantum jumps?• Is quantum theory complete and/or universal?• Is the standard interpretation of Heisenberg’s uncertainty relations

accurate?• What is Event Enhanced Quantum Theory and how does it differs from

spontaneous localization theories?• What are the possible applications of quantum fractals?

Readership: Students and professionals in quantum chaos, as well as philosophers of science.

300pp Oct 2014978-981-4569-86-6 US$94 £62978-981-4569-87-3(ebook) US$122 £81

A CHORUS OF BELLS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC INQUIRIESby Jeremy Bernstein (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

This book of essays in four parts, was written over a decade and full of surprises for the breadth and variety of its subject matter. The first part is about the foundations of the quantum theory which reflects the author’s many conversations with the late John Bell who persuaded him that there is still no satisfactory interpretation of the theory. The second part deals with nuclear weapons. The third section deals with financial engineering with a profile of Louis Bachelier, the French mathematician who created it at the beginning of the 20th century. The final section deals with the Higgs boson and how it is used for generating mass. It includes a detailed article of how this mechanism works.

Readership: The reader with an interest in quantum mechanics, and biographies of John Bell, Paul Dirac as well as Louis Batchelier, who created the field of financial engineering.

200pp Jun 2014978-981-4578-94-3 US$38 £25978-981-4596-58-9(ebook) US$49 £33

Notable BacklistBACK-OF-THE-ENVELOPE QUANTUM MECHANICS: WITH EXTENSIONSTO MANY-BODY SYSTEMS AND INTEGRABLE PDESOlchanyi Maxim (Univ of Massachusetts Boston, USA)

SPACE-TIME SYMMETRY AND QUANTUM YANG-MILLS GRAVITY: HOW SPACE-TIME TRANSLATIONAL GAUGE SYMMETRY ENABLES THE UNIFICATION OF GRAVITY WITH OTHER FORCESHsu Jong-Ping (Univ of Massachusetts At Dartmouth, USA) et al.

KOREPIN FESTSCHRIFT, THE: FROM STATISTICAL MECHANICS TO QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE - A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES WRITTEN IN HONOR OF THE 60TH BIRTHDAY OF VLADIMIR KOREPINKwek Leong Chuan (NUS, S'pore) et al.

HANDBOOK ON OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF SEMICONDUCTORS, THE: IN TABLES AND FIGURESAdachi Sadao (Gunma Univ, Japan)

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Cold Atoms - Vol 2THE QUANTUM WORLD OF ULTRACOLD ATOMS AND LIGHTBook 1: Foundations of Quantum Opticsby 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 — Foundations of Quantum Optics — provides an introductory text on the theoretical techniques of quantum optics, containing the elements of what one needs to teach, learn, and “think” about quantum optics. There is a particular emphasis on the classical and quantum stochastic methods which have come to dominate the field.

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

328pp May 2014978-1-78326-460-5 US$128 £84978-1-78326-461-2(pbk) US$64 £42

SOLUTION MANUAL FOR QUANTUM MECHANICS(2nd Edition)by Ahmed Ishtiaq, Fayyazuddin & Riazuddin (National Centre for Physics, Pakistan)

This is the solution manual for Riazuddin’s and Fayyazuddin’s Quantum Mechanics (2nd edition). The questions in the original book were selected with a view to illustrate the physical concepts and use of mathematical techniques which show their universality in tackling various problems of different physical origins. This solution manual contains the text and complete solution of every problem in the original book. This book will be a useful reference for students looking to master the concepts introduced in Quantum Mechanics (2nd edition).

Readership: Students and teachers of quantum mechanics.

324pp May 2014978-981-4541-88-6(pbk) US$49 £32

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NATURE’S LONGEST THREADSNew Frontiers in the Mathematics and Physics of Information in Biologyedited by Janaki Balakrishnan) & B V Sreekantan (India Institute of Science, India)

Organisms endowed with life show a sense of awareness, interacting with and learning from the universe in and around them. Each level of interaction involves transfer of information of various kinds, and at different levels. Each thread of information is interlinked with the other, and woven together, these constitute the universe — both the internal self and the external world — as we perceive it. They are, figuratively speaking, Nature’s longest threads. This volume reports inter-disciplinary research and views on information and its transfer at different levels of organization by reputed scientists working on the frontier areas of science.

Readership: Academics and the general public.

200pp Sep 2014978-981-4612-46-3 US$68 £45978-981-4612-47-0(ebook) US$88 £59

STRONG LIGHTMATTER COUPLINGFrom Atoms to Solid-State Systemsedited by Alexia Auffè ves (Institut Néel-CNRS, France), Dario Gerace (Universitàdi Pavia, Italy), Maxime Richard (Institut Néel-CNRS, France), Stefano Portolan (Institut Néel-CNRS, France), Marcelo França Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Leong Chuan Kwek (National University of Singapore & Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) & Christian Miniatura (INLN-CNRS, France & University of Nice Sophia, France & CQT, National University of Singapore)

The physics of strong light-matter coupling has been addressed in different scientific communities over the last three decades. This book aims at developing the necessary interface between these communities, by providing future researchers with a robust conceptual, theoretical and experimental basis on strong light-matter coupling, both in the classical and in the quantum regimes. In addition, the emphasis is on new forefront research topics currently developed around the physics of strong light-matter interaction in the atomic and solid-state scenarios.

Readership: Undergraduate, graduate students and researchers interested in strong light-matter coupling.

304pp Feb 2014978-981-4460-34-7 US$108 £71978-981-4460-35-4(ebook) US$140 £92

:: TextbookA CONCISE TREATISE ON QUANTUM MECHANICS IN PHASE SPACEby Thomas L Curtright (University of Miami, USA), David B Fairlie (University of Durham, UK) & Cosmas K Zachos (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

This is a text on quantum mechanics formulated simultaneously in terms of position and momentum, i.e. in phase space. It is written at an introductory level, drawing on the remarkable history of the subject for inspiration and motivation. Wigner functions — density matrices in a special Weyl representation — and star products are the cornerstones of the formalism.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates and graduates studying quantum mechanics.

172pp Jan 2014978-981-4520-43-0 US$38 £25

Notable BacklistINTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS: SCHRODINGER EQUATION AND PATH INTEGRAL (SECOND EDITION)Muller-Kirsten Harald J W (Univ of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS(SECOND EDITION)Dyson Freeman (Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA) et al.

HEISENBERG'S QUANTUM MECHANICSRazavy Mohsen (Univ of Alberta, Canada)

SIX QUANTUM PIECES: A FIRST COURSE IN QUANTUM PHYSICSScarani Valerio (NUS, S'pore) et al.

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:: Bestselling TextbookQUANTUM MECHANICSA Modern Developmentby Leslie E Ballentine (Simon Fraser University)

Although there are many textbooks that deal with the formal apparatus of quantum mechanics (QM) and its application to standard problems, none take into account the developments in the foundations of the subject which have taken place in the last few decades. There are specialized treatises on various aspects of the foundations of QM, but none that integrate those topics with the standard material. This book aims to remove that unfortunate dichotomy, which has divorced the practical aspects of the subject from the interpretation and broader implications of the theory.

Readership: Students, teachers and researchers in quantum mechanics.

672pp Mar 1998978-981-02-2707-4 US$87 £57978-981-02-4105-6(pbk) US$65 £43

:: TextbookTHE QUANTUM WORLDby Michel Le Bellac (University of Nice, France)

Quantum physics has, on the one hand, drastically changed our theoretical description of the physical world and has, on the other hand, revolutionized everyday life, by allowing us to build lasers, atomic clocks used in GPS, and semiconductor-based devices such as laptop computers and smartphones. 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

:: BestsellerQUANTUM COMPUTING FROM THE GROUND UPby Riley Tipton Perry (University of New South Wales, Australia)

“This book aims to explain these ideas, the building blocks and algorithms for quantum computing. It would be a great book for people with some higher education in physical sciences. I think that if you are a physics or mathematics or computer science student, struggling with a difficult higher level course or just interested in how it works, this book is one of the better choices.”


Readership: Advanced undergraduate students interested in quantum information.

256pp Sep 2012978-981-4412-11-7(pbk) US$49 £32

:: Evergreen Study GuideMajor American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions - Physics PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON QUANTUM MECHANICSedited by Yung-Kuo Lim (National University of 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


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

Notable BacklistQUANTUM ASPECTS OF LIFEAbbott Derek (Univ Of Adelaide, Australia) et al.

FIELD THEORY: A PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH (2ND EDITION)Das Ashok (Univ Of Rochester, USA)

JOHN S BELL ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICSBell M (Cern, Switzerland) et al.

LECTURES ON QUANTUM THEORY: MATHEMATICAL AND STRUCTURAL FOUNDATIONSIsham C J (Imperial College, Uk)

PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS FOR THE NEXT DECADEedited by Gandhimohan M Viswanathan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Ernesto P Raposo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) & Marcos Gomes Eleutério da Luz (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)

Statistical Physics (SP) is still rapidly evolving, in contrast to other branches of science, which already have well defined scopes and borderlines of applicability. This difference is due to the steadily expanding number of applications, as well as ongoing improvements and revisions of concepts and methods in SP. Such particular aspects of SP lend further significance and timeliness to this book about perspectives and trends within the field.

Here, the aim is to present the state-of-the-art vision of expert researchers who study SP and Complex Systems. Although a comprehensive treatment is well beyond what can be treated in a single volume, the book provides a snapshot of the field today, as well as a glimpse of where the field may be heading during the next decade.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, academics and professionals in statistical physics, complex systems and nonlinear science.

348pp May 2014978-981-4590-13-6 US$118 £78978-981-4590-14-3(ebook) US$153 £101

SEMICONDUCTORS

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:: Bestselling TextbookTHE PHYSICS OF SOLAR CELLSby Jenny Nelson (Imperial College, UK)

“This book is clear and concise, gives adequate references and exercises, it summarizes the symbols and displays clear, legible, and informative illustrations. Nelson’s obvious experience in lecturing on solar cells has made this book a most useful and recommendable reading.” Hans J Queisser

Max-Planck-Institute of Solid-State ResearchStuttgart, Germany

“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 PHYSICS

:: TextbookTHEORY OF MAGNETISMApplication to Surface Physicsby Hung T Diep (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)

The book is intended for graduate students and researchers who wish to master the main properties of magnetic materials in the bulk state and at the nanometric scale such as for thin films and multilayers. This textbook provides the theories and methods of simulation to study and to understand these properties in an explicit manner.

In the first part of the book, the quantum theory of magnetism is presented while the second part of the book is devoted to the application of the theory of magnetism to surface physics. Numerous examples covering typical cases in ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, ferrimagnets, helimagnets, and frustrated spin systems are all illustrated. Fundamental surface effects are shown and discussed. Lastly, the spin transport is described — in which the basic formulation of the Boltzmann’s equation is recalled — and the recent methods of Monte Carlo simulation to deal with the spin resistivity are explained.

Readership: Intended for graduate students and researchers to learn the main properties of magnetic materials in the bulk state and at the nanometric scale such as for thin films and multilayers.

440pp Feb 2014978-981-4569-94-1 US$84 £55

:: BestsellerWorld Scientific Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics - Vol 27THE LANGEVIN EQUATIONWith Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering(3rd Edition)by William T Coffey (Trinity College, Ireland) & Yuri P Kalmykov (Universitéde Perpignan Via Domitia, France)

Review of the First and Second Editions“I found this book a valuable addition to my library. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students and the material could be used as the text for a course for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.”

Irwin Oppenheim, MIT

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and researchers in statistical physics, condensed matter physics and magnetism, chemical physics, theoretical chemistry and applied mathematics.

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:: Bestselling TextbookINTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL MECHANICSby John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary, USA)

“I found the work to be an original and appealing presentation ... Overall, the text’s practical feel will give students a good sense of what it means to use statistical mechanics.” Physics Today

“John Dirk Walecka has written an excellent introduction to statistical mechanics, a central subject in most graduate curricula. The book is a remarkable presentation of the central concepts with many informative applications.” Contemporary Physics

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, beginning graduate students in physics, chemistry and related physical sciences.

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:: Bestselling TextbookSTATISTICAL MECHANICS FOR BEGINNERSA Textbook for Undergraduatesby Lucien Gilles Benguigui (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

“The last item constitutes an interesting historical review of statistical mechanics. The book ends with a small collection of interesting exercises and hints for their solution.” Zentralblatt MATH

The unique presentation starts off with the principles, elucidating the well-developed theory, and only thereafter the application of theory. Calculations on the main steps are detailed, leaving behind minimal gap. The author emphasizes with theory the link between the macroscopic world (thermodynamics) and the microscopic world.

Readership: Undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, material engineering and electrical engineering.

180pp Aug 2010978-981-4299-11-4 US$62 £41978-981-4299-12-1(pbk) US$37 £24

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:: Evergreen Study GuideMajor American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions - Physics PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICSedited by Yung-Kuo Lim (National University of Singapore)

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




420pp Feb 1990978-981-02-0055-8 US$112 £74978-981-02-0056-5(pbk) US$54 £36

:: Evergreen TextbookWorld Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics - Vol 9SPIN GLASS THEORY AND BEYONDAn Introduction to the Replica Method and Its Applicationsby M Mezard (Paris) & G Parisi (Roma)& M Virasoro (Roma)

“The authors give a masterly account of the work on the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model in the first 85 pages. Such a summary cannot be found elsewhere, and much of our current understanding of the problem is due to the authors of this book and their collaborators ... This is an important book, which every physics library should have. It is also good reading for anyone who wants to know about these aspects of the spin glass problem, and why “replica symmetry breaking” and “ultrametricity” may be important.” Physics Today

Readership: Physicists, mathematicians and biologists.

476pp Nov 1987978-9971-5-0116-7(pbk) US$52 £34

THEORETICAL PHYSICS

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) & Hermine Reichau (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany)

This book offers an explicitly covariant canonical formalism that is devised in the usual mathematical language of standard textbooks on classical dynamics. In analogy to the treatment of time in relativistic point mechanics, the canonical formalism in field theory is further extended to a space-time that is no longer fixed but is also treated as a canonical variable. Applied to a generalized theory of gauge transformations, this opens the door to a new approach to general relativity.

Readership: Advanced students and professionals in relativistic point mechanics and Covariant Hamiltonian Field Theory.

300pp Apr 2015978-981-4578-41-7 US$110 £73978-981-4578-42-4(ebook) US$143 £95

Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences CONTINUUM THERMODYNAMICSPart II: Applications and Exercisesby Bettina Albers & Krzysztof Wilmanski (Technical University of Berlin, Germany & Rose School Pavia, Italy)

This second part of Continuum Thermodynamics is designed to match almost one-to-one the chapters of Part I. This is done so that the reader studying thermodynamics will have a deepened understanding of the subjects covered in Part I. The aims of the book are in particular: the illustration of basic features of some simple thermodynamical models such as ideal and viscous fluids, non-Newtonian fluids, nonlinear solids, interactions with electromagnetic fields, and diffusive porous materials. A further aim is the illustration of the above subjects by examples and simple solutions of initial and boundary problems as well as simple exercises to develop skills in the construction of interdisciplinary macroscopic models.

Readership: Materials scientists and physicists.

400pp Apr 2015978-981-4412-37-7 US$135 £89978-981-4412-38-4(ebook) US$176 £116

:: TextbookNONCOMMUTATIVE 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.

Since non-commutative geometry has recently aroused renewed interest in open string theory, the author motivates the text from the viewpoint of a string theory. He begins with an introduction to the subject, explaining what one means by non-commutative geometry and why it is relevant to study such geometry, and discussing its possible origin in a string theory.

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

250pp Mar 2015978-981-238-052-4 US$47 £33

Notable BacklistSTATISTICAL MECHANICS MADE SIMPLE (2ND EDITION)Mattis Daniel C (Univ Of Utah, USA) et al.

STATISTICAL PHYSICS: AN INTRODUCTORY COURSEAmit Daniel J (Univ Di Roma “La Sapienza” & The Hebrew Univ) et al.

STATISTICAL DYNAMICS: MATTER OUT OF EQUILIBRIUMBalescu R (Univ Libre De Bruxelles, Belgium)

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:: TextbookImperial 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 Dec 2014978-1-84816-371-3 US$77 £53

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EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORIESby Alexey A Petrov (Wayne State University, USA) & 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 Dec 2014978-981-4434-92-8 US$98 £65978-981-4434-93-5(ebook) US$127 £84

SELECTED PAPERS OF LEV P GOR’KOVby Lev P Gor’kov (Florida State University, USA)

The author of this unique volume, Lev P Gor’kov is internationally renowned for his seminal contribution in the fundamentals of the Theory of Superconductivity, Theory of Metals, the field of Quantum Statistical Physics, and more generally, Organic Metals and the like. Each reprints’ group is preceded by the author’s introductions and commentaries clarifying the formulation of a problem, summarizing the essence of the results and placing them in the context of recent developments. The author belongs to the last generation of scientists who were the direct disciples of the legendary Russian theorist Lev Landau. And Gor’kov’s achievements reflect the unique style and the originality of this famous Scientific School.

Readership: For researchers in condensed matter physics, including postdoctoral and advanced graduate students. It may also be of interest to historians of science, as well as the general public with a university level of education.

550pp Sep 2014978-981-4366-95-3 US$188 £124

CANONICAL QUANTUM GRAVITYFundamentals and Recent Developmentsby Francesco Cianfrani (University of Wroc aw, Poland), Orchidea Maria Lecian (Universitàdi Roma “Sapienza”, Italy & Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany), Matteo Lulli (Universitàdi Roma “Sapienza”, Italy) & Giovanni Montani (ENEA, Italy)

This book aims to present a pedagogical and self-consistent treatment of the canonical approach to Quantum Gravity, starting from its original formulation to the most recent developments in the field.

Readership: Researchers in theoretical physics, quantum physics, general relativity and astrophysics.

324pp Aug 2014978-981-4556-64-4 US$128 £84978-981-4556-65-1(ebook) US$166 £109

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THE OSKAR KLEIN MEMORIAL LECTURES1988 – 1999edited by Gösta Ekspong (Stockholm University, Sweden)

The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture series has become a very successful tradition in Swedish physics since it started in 1988. Theoretical high-energy physics dominates the subjects of the lectures, mirroring one of Klein’s own main interests.

This single volume is a compilation of the unique lectures previously produced in three separate volumes. The lectures are by world renowned experts in physics who have all contributed to the excitement of the field over the years. They continue to be of value to students and teachers alike.

Readership: Students and researchers interested in theoretical and astrophysics.

460pp May 2014978-981-4571-60-9 US$68 £45978-981-4571-61-6(ebook) US$88 £59

FRACTIONAL CALCULUSAn Introduction for Physicists(2nd Edition)by Richard Herrmann (GigaHedron, Germany)

Reviews of the First Edition: “Fractional Calculus is an affordable and valuable introduction to the field that will appeal to physicists interested in scientific what-ifs.”

Physics Today

“... the first three chapters actually appear very helpful at the graduate level. Each chapter has a careful precis at the start. There a many analyses illustrating outcomes of fractional analyses... If this [fractional calculus] is the field of your research then this book is essential with numerous references... “ Contemporary Physics

Readership: Students and researchers in physics.

500pp Mar 2014978-981-4551-07-6 US$88 £58978-981-4551-08-3(ebook) US$114 £75

elpful at the graduate

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:: TextbookTsinghua Report and Review in Physics - Vol 2PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICSFrom Quantum Field Theory to Classical Mechanicsby Jun Ni (Tsinghua University, China)

This book starts from a set of common basic principles to establish the formalisms in all areas of fundamental physics, including quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, general relativity, electromagnetic field, and classical mechanics. Instead of the traditional pedagogic way, the author arranges the subjects and formalisms in a logical-sequential way, i.e. all the formulas are derived from the formulas before them. The formalisms are also kept self-contained. Most of the required mathematical tools are also given in the appendices.

Readership: This is an advanced graduate or postgraduate level book.

444pp Feb 2014978-981-4579-39-1 US$78 £51

QUANTUM THEORY OF TUNNELING (2nd Edition)by Mohsen Razavy (University of Alberta, Canada)

In this revised and expanded edition, in addition to a comprehensible introduction to the theoretical foundations of quantum tunneling based on different methods of formulating and solving tunneling problems, different semiclassical approximations for multidimensional systems are presented. Particular attention is given to the tunneling of composite systems, with examples taken from molecular tunneling and also from nuclear reactions. The interesting and puzzling features of tunneling times are given extensive coverage, and the possibility of measurement of these times with quantum clocks are critically examined.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in theoretical, mathematical, condensed matter and nuclear physics, as well as theoretical chemistry.

792pp Feb 2014978-981-4525-00-8 US$168 £111978-981-4525-02-2(ebook) US$218 £144

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STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY (In 2 Volumes)by Gerhard Grensing (University of Kiel, Germany)

“This self-contained, comprehensive first volume presents a fundamental and careful introduction to quantum field theory. It will be welcomed by students as well as researchers, since it gives an overview of the origin and development of the basic ideas of modern particle physics, quantum statistical mechanics and the mathematics behind. The book provides a rich collection of modern research topics and references to important recent published work.” Zentralblatt MATH

Readership: Graduate students and professionals in theoretical and mathematical physics.

1596pp Jul 2013978-981-4472-69-2(Set) US$198 £131978-981-4472-70-8(Set)(ebook) US$257 £170

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PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN QUANTUM COMPUTING AND QUANTUM INFORMATION(3rd Edition)by Willi-Hans Steeb & Yorick Hardy (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Review of the 2nd Edition“This is a nice collection of standard problems and solutions, the latter being formulated on a level as elementary as possible. So it is especially useful for students who want to become acquainted with quantum information and computation. It is also useful for lecturers when they have to prepare exercises.” Zentralblatt MATH

New topics added to the third edition: Reversible logic circuits, Gaussian states, Partial trace, Homodyne detection, Two mode squeezing, Quantum Lambda Calculus

Readership: Graduates and researchers in theoretical and mathematical physics.

424pp Sep 2011978-981-4366-32-8 US$95 £63

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:: Evergreen Study GuidePROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN THEORETICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS (3rd Edition)by Willi-Hans Steeb (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

This book provides a comprehensive collection of problems together with their detailed solutions in the field of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. All modern fields in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics are covered. It is the only book which covers all the new techniques and methods in theoretical and mathematical physics.

Third edition updated with: Exercises in: Hilbert space theory, Lie groups, Matrix – valued differential forms, Bose – Fermi operators and string theory. All other chapters have been updated with new problems and materials. Most chapters contain an introduction to the subject discussed in the text.

688pp Jul 2009978-981-4282-18-5(Set) US$106 £70978-981-4282-19-2(Set)(pbk) US$63 £42

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100 YEARS OF RELATIVITYSpace-Time Structure: Einstein and Beyondedited by Abhay Ashtekar (Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Pennsylvania State University, USA)

“... is a book of lasting value, serving both as an overview for non-specialists and as a work of reference for specialists ... The book is valuable both as an accessible overview of current research and as a work of reference. I strongly recommend the book for libraries whose users have an interest in gravity research at any level.” General Relativity and Gravitation

Readership: Non specialists interested in relativity, space-time, string theory, quantum gravity and physics beyond Einstein; graduate students, researchers and academics.

528pp Jul 2006978-981-256-394-1 US$191 £126978-981-270-030-8(pbk) US$99 £65978-981-270-098-8(ebook) US$248 £164

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:: Evergreen Study GuideOPTICSProblems and Solutionsby Antonio Siciliano (University of Bari, Italy)

“Students in optics would find this to be a useful additional text to have examples of many solved problems.”

IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

“The book is written for students who can use the problems to engross the thoughts and to prepare for examinations. The descriptions of the laws and the tasks are well illustrated with many figures and plots.”

Zentralblatt MATH

Readership: Undergraduates in physics and optical engineering preparing for an optics examination, and professionals in the lens and optical instrument business.

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:: All-Time BestsellerFEYNMAN’S THESIS A NEW APPROACH TO QUANTUM THEORYedited by Laurie M Brown (Northwestern University, USA)

“The young Feynman revealed here was full of invention, verve, and ambition. His new approach to quantum mechanics, after simmering for decades beneath the surface of theoretical physics, burst into new prominence in the 1970s. Now its influence is pervasive, and still expanding. Feynman’s original presentation is not only uniquely clear, but also contains insights and perspectives that are not widely known, and might well provide ammunition for another explosion or two.”

Frank Wilczek2004 Physics Nobel Laureate

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Notable BacklistCAREER IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS, A (2ND EDITION)Anderson Philip W (Princeton Univ, USA)

QUANTUM THEORY OF TUNNELINGRazavy Mohsen (Univ of Alberta, Canada)

SELECTED PAPERS OF RICHARD FEYNMAN (WITH COMMENTARY)Brown L M (Northwestern Univ., USA)

UNDER THE SPELL OF THE GAUGE PRINCIPLE'T Hooft G (Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands)

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FUNCTIONAL FORMULATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICSby Horacio Oscar Girotti (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

The functional formulation of quantum mechanics and relativistic quantum field theories are widely studied subjects. Nevertheless, certain aspects of this formulation are frequently overlooked, in spite of their relevance from a structural point of view. This book aims to fill up this gap. The non-relativistic regime has been found particularly appropriate for these purposes.

Readership: Graduate students in theoretical physics and mathematical physics.

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UNDER THE SPELL OF LANDAUWhen Theoretical Physics was Shaping Destiniesedited by Mikhail Shifman (University of Minnesota, USA)

“This volume is filled with fascinating reminiscences of the Landau school of theoretical physics that flourished in the then Soviet Union. Life was often difficult but the science was top-notch. We can all be grateful that these reminiscences have been written down and collected and are now being published in English.”

Professor Edward WittenInstitute for Advanced Study, Princeton

“In this book we get to know about not only Landau but many from his circle, persons who are now gone. People who are still active give very personal and detailed narrations of the masters of the Landau circle. They come back to life for us and we get a very good understanding of how these people worked and lived. We can follow the history of theoretical physics through the achievements of these people. In this sense the book is a must for anyone interested in the history of science.”

Professor Lars BrinkChalmers Univ. of Tech., Sweden

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

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:: Recommended TextbookTHERMAL PHYSICSEntropy and Free Energies(2nd Edition)by Joon Chang Lee (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)

“I would recommend this book not only for students but also for teachers looking for hints about the best way to introduce their students to the different aspects of thermal physics. Finally, I would suggest reading this text also to those willing to handle non-equilibrium thermodynamics before starting more advanced studies.”


“The book is well written and provides a good reading; it will certainly find an appropriate place in university libraries.”

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Readership: For undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics, physical chemistry, polymer chemistry, and also chemical, materials and mechanical engineering as well as for professionals.

392pp Mar 2011978-981-4340-76-2 US$83 £55

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PROCEEDINGSTITLE EDITOR PUB. DATE ISBN 13 US$ £High Gradient Accelerating Structure - Proceedings of the Symposium on the Occasion of 70th Birthday of Junwen Wang

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Next Generation Experiments to Measure the Neutron Lifetime - Proceedings of the Workshop

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Physics, Mathematics, and all that Quantum Jazz Tanaka Shu Et Al 12-May-14 9789814602365 115 76New Results and Actual Problems in Particle & Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology - XXIX-th International Workshop on High Energy Physics

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Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics: Physical, Philosophical, and Logical Perspectives

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Strong Coupling Gauge Theories in the Lhc Perspective (SCGT 12) - Proceedings of the KMI-GCOE Workshop

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CPT and Lorentz Symmetry - Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting Kostelecky Alan 21-Mar-14 9789814566421 115 76

Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on ICFN5

Hamilton Joseph H & Ramayya Akunuri V

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Physics of Reality, The: Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos - Proceedings of the 8th Symposium Honoring Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier

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Searching For New Physics at Small and Large Scales (TASI 2012) - Proceedings of the 2012 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics

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Searching For the Unexpected at LHC and the Status of Our Knowledge - Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics

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What Is Known and Unexpected at LHC - Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics

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Exotic Nuclei: EXON-2012 - Proceedings of the International Symposium Penionzhkevich Yu E & Sobolev Yu G

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Theory of the Quantum World, the - Proceedings of the 25th Solvay Conference on Physics

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Quest For the Origin of Particles and the Universe - Proceedings of the KMI Inauguration Conference

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Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics - Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium

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Low Dimensional Physics and Gauge Principles: Matinyan’s Festschrift Gurzadyan V G, Klumper A & Sedrakyan A G

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Quantum Bio-Informatics V - Proceedings of the Quantum Bio-Informatics 2011 Accardi Luigi Et Al 18-Mar-13 9789814460019 175 116Dark Secrets of the Terascale, the (TASI 2011) – Proceedings of the 2011 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics

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Diversities in Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Nakahara Mikio Et Al 17-Nov-12 9789814425971 98 65Quantum Information and Quantum Computing - Proceedings of Symposium Nakahara Mikio Et Al 17-Nov-12 9789814425216 98 65Interface Between Quantum Information and Statistical Physics Nakahara Mikio Et Al 13-Nov-12 9789814425278 98 65EPIOPTICS-11 - Proceedings of the 49th Course of the International School of Solid State Physics

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Solid State Ionics: Ionics For Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference

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Frontiers in Quantum Information Research - Proceedings of the Summer School on Decoherence, Entanglement & Entropy and Proceedings of the Workshop on MPS & DMRG

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Exploring Fundamental Issues in Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Clusters - Superheavy, Superneutronic, Superstrange, of Anti-Matter - Proceedings of the Symposium on Advances in Nuclear Physics in Our Time

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Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, The: on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proceedings of the MG12 Meeting on General Relativity (In 3 Volumes)

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Most Unexpected at LHC and the Status of High Energy Frontier, the - Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics

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Title Index

100 Years of Relativity ............................................................. 31

100 Years of Subatomic Physics ............................................. 22

ABC of Physics ....................................................................... 19

Accelerator Physics ................................................................. 4

Achieving the Rare .................................................................. 14

A Chorus of Bells and Other Scientific Inquiries ...................... 25

A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space . 26

A Modern Course in University Physics .................................. 13

Andrei Sakharov ...................................................................... 14

An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory ................................ 21

An Introduction to Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics(2nd Edition) ............................................................................ 6

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the StringTheory Revolution ................................................................... 20

An Introduction to Lagrangian Mechanics ............................... 9

An Introduction to the Functional Formulation of Quantum Mechanics ............................................................... 32

Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules (Volume 1) ...... 8

Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules (Volume 2) ...... 8

Asian Physics Olympiad (1st-8th) ........................................... 15

Astrophysics and the Evolution of the Universe ...................... 7

A Theory of Scattering for Quasifree Particles ........................ 18

BCS: 50 Years ......................................................................... 12

Beam Dynamics in High Energy Particle Accelerators ............ 4

Birds and Frogs ....................................................................... 13

Birth, Evolution and Death of Stars ......................................... 7

Canonical Quantum Gravity .................................................... 30

Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century ..... 4

Challenging Routes in Quantum Cosmology .......................... 6

Classical and Quantum Cosmology ........................................ 6

Classical Mechanics ................................................................ 16

Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics ........................................ 10

Concepts in Solids ................................................................... 12

Continuum Thermodynamics .................................................. 29

Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion ........................................... 24

Crystal Symmetry, Lattice Vibrations and OpticalSpectroscopy of Solids ............................................................ 11

Dark Matter and Cosmic Web Story ........................................ 7

Deliquescence and Liquid Water on Mars ............................... 6

Differential Manifolds ............................................................... 19

Effective Field Theories ........................................................... 30

Electromagnetic Waves for Thermonuclear FusionResearch ................................................................................. 22

Engines of Discovery ............................................................... 4

Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction in Ultra-High-Q Whispering Gallery Microcavities ............................................ 23

Experiments and Demonstrations in Physics (2nd Edition) ........................................................................... 13

Extended Lagrange and Hamilton Formalism for PointMechanics and Covariant Hamilton Field Theory .................... 29

Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics ............... 20

Fantastic Realities ................................................................... 16

Fast Collisions of Light Ions with Matter .................................. 8

Feynman’s Thesis — A New Approach to Quantum Theory ... 32

Financial Markets (5th Edition) ................................................ 11

Fractional Calculus .................................................................. 30

From Photons to Higgs ............................................................ 18

Fundamental Forces of Nature ................................................ 16

Fundamental Principles of Classical Mechanics ..................... 9

Group Theory in Physics ......................................................... 17

Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering ................ 4

History of Modern Optics and OptoelectronicsDevelopment in China ............................................................. 23

Lectures Notes on Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics .................................................................................... 11

In Memory of Akira Tonomura ................................................. 5

International Journal of Modern Physics A (IJMPA) ................ 34

International Journal of Modern Physics B (IJMPB) ................ 34

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC) ............... 35

International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD) ............... 35

International Journal of Modern Physics E (IJMPE) ................ 35

Introduction to Modern Physics ............................................... 16

Introduction to Statistical Mechanics ....................................... 28

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation (JAI) ........................ 35

Laser ....................................................................................... 21

Lecture Notes on Field Theory ................................................ 11

Lectures on Classical Electrodynamics ................................... 9

Lectures on Electromagnetism ................................................ 9

Leptons and Quarks ................................................................ 18

Let There Be Light (2nd Edition) ............................................. 14

Life at the Center of the Energy Crisis .................................... 22

Microcosmos: The World of Elementary Particles ................... 19

Mind and Reality ...................................................................... 25

Modern Atomic and Nuclear Physics (Revised Edition) .......... 8

Modern Functional Quantum Field Theory .............................. 19

Modern Physics Letters A (MPLA) ........................................... 34

Modern Physics Letters B (MPLB) .......................................... 34

More and Different ................................................................... 15

Nambu ..................................................................................... 19

Nature’s Longest Threads ....................................................... 26

Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter Physics ................... 12

New Superconductors: From Granularto High TC (2nd Edition) ........................................................... 21

Non-Commutative Geometry ................................................... 29

Nuclear Radiation Interactions ................................................ 22

One Hundred Physics Visualizations Using MATLAB ............. 14

Optics ...................................................................................... 32

Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics,Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets (5th Edition) ............ 11

Perspectives and Challenges in Statistical Physics andComplex Systems for the Next Decade .................................. 27

Perspectives on String Phenomenology ................................. 17

Physics Around Us .................................................................. 15

Physics from the Edge ............................................................ 7

Physics Olympiad — Basic to Advanced Exercises ................ 13

Physics with Trapped Charged Particles ................................. 24

Planets: Ours and Others ........................................................ 7

Practical Guide to ComputerSimulations (2nd Edition) (With CD-ROM) .............................. 10

Principles of Physics ............................................................... 31

Problems and Solutions in Quantum Computing andQuantum Information ............................................................... 31

Problems and Solutions in Theoretical and MathematicalPhysics (3rd Edition) ............................................................... 31

Problems and Solutions in University Physics ........................ 13

Problems and Solutions on Atomic, Nuclear andParticle Physics ....................................................................... 8

Problems and Solutions on Electromagnetism ........................ 5

Problems and Solutions on Mechanics ................................... 17

Problems and Solutions on Optics .......................................... 23

Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanics ................... 27

Problems and Solutions on Solid State Physics,

Relativity and Miscellaneous Topics ........................................ 16

Problems and Solutions on Thermodynamics andStatistical Mechanics ............................................................... 29

Problems in Solid State Physics with Solutions ...................... 11

Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of the90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson ............................................ 18

QCD and Heavy Quarks .......................................................... 17

Quantum Computing from the Ground Up .............................. 27

Quantum Cryptography ........................................................... 24

Quantum Dissipative Systems ................................................ 11

Quantum Fractals .................................................................... 25

Quantum Gas Experiments ..................................................... 25

Quantum Mechanics ............................................................... 25

Quantum Mechanics ............................................................... 27

Quantum Theory of Tunneling (2nd Edition) ........................... 31

Quarks, Leptons and Gauge Fields (2nd Edition) ................... 21

Relativistic Laser-Plasma-Based Particle Beams and Radiation Sources ............................................................ 21

Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology .................... 5

Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology (RAST) ...... 35

Searches for the Higgs Boson ................................................. 17

Selected Papers of Lev P Gor’Kov .......................................... 30

Semiconductor Spintronics ...................................................... 12

Short Pulse Laser Interactions with Matter (2nd Edition) ........ 24

Soft Matter Transformations in Culinary Processes ................ 10

Solid State Quantum Information — An Advanced Textbook .................................................................................. 10

Solution Manual for Quantum Mechanics ............................... 26

Spin Glass Theory and Beyond ............................................... 29

Statistical Mechanics for Beginners ........................................ 28

Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics ........................... 4

Strong Light-Matter Coupling .................................................. 26

Structural Aspects of Quantum Field Theory and Noncommutative Geometry (In 2 Volumes) ............................ 31

Studying Distant Galaxies ....................................................... 6

Subatomic Physics .................................................................. 20

Symmetries in Nature .............................................................. 18

Symmetry and Fundamental Physics: Tom Kibble at 80 ......... 19

Symmetry, Groups, and Representations in Physics .............. 30

The Langevin Equation ........................................................... 28

The Neutron ............................................................................ 20

Theory of Magnetism ............................................................... 28

The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures ........................................ 30

The Physics of Solar Cells ...................................................... 28

The Quantum World ................................................................ 27

The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light ................ 26

Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale ........................................... 11

Thermal Physics ...................................................................... 32

The Science of Energy ............................................................ 14

The Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas ............................ 24

The Wonders of Physics ......................................................... 15

Time in Powers of Ten ............................................................. 13

Understanding the Superconductivity in Copper Oxides ......... 10

Understanding the Universe .................................................... 15

Under the Spell of Landau ....................................................... 32

Vectorial Optical Fields ............................................................ 23

Water ....................................................................................... 22

Waves and Particles ................................................................ 9

Why Science? ......................................................................... 14

X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging ............................................... 23

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A Acharya Bobby .............................17Ahmed Ishtiaq...............................26Albers Bettina ...............................29Anderson Philip W ..................12, 15Archer Mary D ..............................10Ashtekar Abhay ............................31Aslamazov Lev G .........................15Auffeves Alexia .............................26B Baillon Paul...................................19Balakrishnan Janaki .....................26Ballentine Leslie E ..................25, 27Belkic Dzevad .................................8Benguigui Lucien Gilles ................28Benini Riccardo ..............................6Berkshire Frank H.........................16Bernstein Jeremy..........................25Bigi Ikaros I ...................................17Blechman Andrew E .....................30Bobin Jean Louis ..........................24Bongs Kai .......................................8Borner Hans G..............................20Breslin Ann ...................................14Bretenaker Fabien ........................21Brizard Alain J.................................9Brown Laurie M ............................32Bruning Oliver .................................4Bussmann-holder Annette ............10C Carr Lincoln D.................................8Cassi Davide ...............................10Castells Pere ................................10Chan Phil Aik Hui ..........................18Chang Kai .....................................12Chang Ngee-pong ........................18Chao Alexander Wu ....................4, 5Chou Weiren ...................................5Christy I-juliana .............................14Cianfrani Francesco .................6, 30Coffey William T............................28Cohen-tannoudji Claude .................8Cooper Leon N .............................12Curtright Thomas L ......................26D Da Luz Marcos Gomes Eleuterio..27Damour Thibault ...........................18Das Ashok ......................................9Dash J Gregory ............................15Deutscher Guy..............................21Di Bartolo Baldassare ...................11Diep Hung-the ..............................28Dyson Freeman J .........................13E Eguchi Tohru .................................19Einasto Jaan ...................................7Ekspong Gosta .............................30Ellis Stephen D .............................22Encrenaz Therese .........................7Englert Berthold-georg ...................9Evans Timothy S...........................30F Fairlie David B ..............................26

Fayyazuddin ................................26Feldman Dmitri .............................12Fisher Timothy S...........................11Flores Hector ..................................6Fried Herbert Martin .....................19Fritzsch Harald .............................19Fujikawa Kazuo ..............................5Furrer Albert..................................12G Gambino Paolo .............................17Gan Fuxi .......................................23Garcia Alejandro ...........................20Gardiner Crispin W .......................26Gauntlett Jerome ..........................19Ge Weikun ....................................12Gerace Dario ................................26Gibbon Paul ..................................24Gilbert Gerald ...............................24Girotti Horacio Oscar ....................32Gong Qihuang ..............................23Gonnenwein Friedrich ..................20Gor’kov Lev P ...............................30Green Daniel ................................14Green Martin Andrew....................10Greiner Walter ..............................10Gor'kov Lev P ...............................29Grensing Gerhard .........................31H Hamilton Joseph H .........................8Hammer Francois ...........................6Hamrick Michael ...........................24Han Fuxiang ...........................11, 13Han Moo-young ......................18, 19Hardy Yorick .................................31Hartmann Alexander K .................10Hasegawa Shuji............................13Henley Ernest M ...........................37Herrmann Richard ........................30Huang Kerson.........................16, 21J Jadczyk Arkadiusz ........................25James Frederick .............................4Japan The Committee of Japan

Physics Olympiad ......................13Jaroszynski Dino ..........................21K Kalmykov Yuri P ...........................28Kane Gordon ................................17Kar Supriya K ...............................29Kibble Tom ....................................16Kisin Vitaly I ..................................19Kisslinger Leonard S ......................7Kleinert Hagen .............................11Knoop Martina ..............................24Kraftmakher Yaakov .....................13Kumar Piyush ...............................17Kwek Leong-chuan .................18, 26L Lam Kai S .......................................9Le Bellac Michel ...........................27Lecian Orchidea Maria .................30Lee Joon Chang ...........................32

Lee Shyh-yuan ...............................4Lequeux James ..............................7Li Shufeng ....................................13Lim Yung-Kuo ....5, 8, 16, 17, 23, 27,

29Lincoln Donald ..............................15Lindesay James............................20Lipkin Harry J................................14Lulli Matteo ...................................30M Madison Kirk W ..............................8Madsen Niels ................................24Mannel Thomas ............................17Mazzucato Ernesto .......................22Mcculloch Michael Edward .............7Mesot Joël ....................................12Mess Karl-hubert ............................4Mezard Marc.................................29Miley George H.............................22Miniature Christian........................26Moniz Paulo Vargas ........................6Montani Giovanni......................6, 30Montwill Alex .................................14Moriyasu K....................................21Mudry Christopher ........................11Muller Karl Alex.............................10Munro Peter R T ...........................23Myers Stephen ...............................4N Nakajima Kazuhisa .......................21Nelson Jenny A .............................28Newton Roger G .......................9, 14Ni Jun ...........................................31Nisati Aleandro .............................17O Okun Lev Borisovich...............18, 19Olivo Alessandro...........................23Ono Yoshimasa A ...........................5P Pang Xiao-Feng............................22Parisi Giorgio ................................29Perry Riley Tipton .........................27Petrov Alexey A ............................30Peuch Mathieu ...............................6Phua Kok Khoo.............................18Portolan Stefano ...........................26Powell Richard C ..........................11R Raposo Ernesto P ........................27Razavy Mohsen ............................31Reichau Hermine ..........................29Renno Nilton O ...............................6Rey Ana Maria ............................8, 8Riazuddin .....................................26Richard Maxime............................26Rodrigues Myriam ..........................6S Santos Marcelo Franca ................26Sapina-Navarro Fernando ............10Schommers Wolfram ....................25Sengstock Klaus ...........................25Sessler Andrew...............................4

Sharma Vivek ...............................17Sheng Zheng-ming .......................21Shifman Mikhail ............................32Siciliano Antonio ...........................32Son Wonmin .................................10Sreekantan B V ............................26Steeb Willi-hans............................31Strässle Thierry ............................12Streater Ray F ..............................18Struckmeier Jurgen ......................29Susskind Leonard .........................20T ‘t Hooft Gerard ..............................13‘t Hooft Saskia ..............................13Tan Shouyun.................................23Thompson Michael John ................6Thompson Richard C....................24Tigner Maury ..................................4Todorov Ivan .................................18Torma Paivi ...................................25Treps Nicolas ................................21Tung Wu-ki ...................................17V Vandoren Stefan ...........................13Varlamov Andrei ...........................15Vedral Vlatko ................................10Veltman Martinus J G ...................20Virasoro Miguel Angel ..................29Viswanathan Gandhimohan M .....27Vvedensky Dimitri D ....................30WWalecka John Dirk ..................16, 28Wang Ke-lin ........5, 8, 16, 17, 23, 29Wang Yiqiu .................................8, 8Weiss Ulrich ..................................16Weinstein Yaakov S ......................24Weiss Ulrich ..................................11White Roscoe B ............................24Wilczek Frank ...............................16Wilmanski Krzysztof .....................29Wilson Edmund ..............................4Wolski Andrzej ................................4Wong Ke-lin ..................................27X Xiao Yun-feng ...............................23Xia Jianbai ....................................12Y Yang Fujia .......................................8Yip Sidney ....................................22Z Zachos Cosmas K ........................26Zhai Hui ..........................................8Zhan Qiwen ..................................23Zhang Jie ......................................21Zhan Qiwen ..................................26Zhang Jie ......................................21Zheng Shu ....................................13Zheng Yongling .............................15Zhilinskii Boris...............................18Zimmermann Frank ........................4Zoller Peter ...................................26Zou Chang-ling .............................23

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