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edited by David N Burrows edited by Ofer Lahav edited by David Gross (University of by Alexey P Isaev (Joint Institute for (The Pennsylvania State (University College London, California at Santa Barbara), Alexander Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia University, USA) UK), Lucy Calder (University Sevrin (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium & & M V Lomonosov Moscow State College London, UK), et al International Solvay Institutes, Belgium), et al University, Russia), et al

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edited by Johnpierre Paglione edited by Bertrand I Halperin by José P Mestre (University of Illinois by Gautier Depambour (University of Maryland, College Park, (Harvard University, USA) & at Urbana-Champaign, USA) & (Université de Paris, France) USA), Nicholas P Butch (National Jainendra K Jain (Penn State Jennifer L Docktor (University of Institute of Standards and Technology, University, USA) Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA) USA), et al

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by Leonard A Cole by Vladimir M Kolomietz edited by Lars Brink (Chalmers University of by Alexander Wu Chao (Rutgers University, USA) (Institute for Nuclear Research, Technology, Sweden), Richard C Brower (Boston (SLAC National Accelerator Ukraine) & Shalom Shlomo (Texas University, USA), Carleton DeTar (University of Utah, Laboratory, USA) A&M University, USA) USA), Chung-I Tan (Brown University, USA) & K K Phua (Founding Director Emeritus IAS NTU, Singapore)

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The ABCs of High-Pressure Rubidium Atomic Clock Science The Workhorse of Satellite Navigation by Sergei M Stishov (Institute for High Pressure by G M Saxena (National Physical Laboratory, Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) India) & Bikash Ghosal (Space Applications Centre, India) Written by the Science Supervisor at the Institute of High Pressure Physics, The ABCs The Rubidium atomic clock (Rb) is the of High-Pressure Science introduces the terms workhorse of the satellite navigation systems and concepts widely adopted in the field of of which GPS is now a household name. high pressure, be it about physics, geology, Written by authors who have spent decades chemistry, or technology. The book also in mastering the art of building practical Rb includes brief biographical essays describing how the pioneers in atomic clocks, this book explains in a simple way the workings of Rb the field laid the groundwork of high-pressure science. The book atomic clocks and their role in satellite navigation systems. It details is organized in the form of short chapters or notes in alphabetical the history of time keeping and the chronological development of order, so a search of the necessary information is not difficult. It is not the Rb atomic clocks, with special focus on the physics package that a reference book though and is designed to ensure that the reader accounts for the actual performance of the clock. Researchers and can easily find further information from the Internet. industrialists will find such clocks is relatively simple and inexpensive to be used in numerous military applications and fine measurements. Readership: Students, graduate students, scientists and engineers in geophysics, condensed matter physics, and material science who are Readership: Graduate students, researchers and industrialists new to high pressure science and technology. interested in Rubidium clocks.

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Handbook of Electrical Steel Light Power: Half a Century of by Göran Engdahl (The KTH royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Solar Electricity Research Volume 1: Solar Thermal Power Systems This book contains all information regarding magnetism and magnetic materials that an electrical engineer needs to know to be able to Volume 2: 20th Century Photovoltaic understand and design magnetic devices. All chapters are written in Systems a textbook fashion such that they can be read independently. edited by David Faiman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) The book covers all major modelling techniques of magnetic materials including the well-known Presiach, Jiles-Atherton and lag models. The 3-volume series documents the develop- General magnetic design approaches including major and new design ment of solar power generating systems in the tools are presented. The book also serves as a guideline regarding last 50 years surrounding the energy crisis of 1973. Volume 1 covers the choice of feasible materials in specific applications. Relevant solar-thermal systems. Volume 2 covers photovoltaic systems in performance criteria are given such that appropriate type of electrical the 20th century. The upcoming Volume 3 will cover photovoltaic steel can be selected. The final chapter offers a list of current electrical developments from the start of the 21st century. steel and magnetic material suppliers. The history is based upon lectures given over the years at the Sede Readership: Electrical engineers and researchers who use magnetic Boqer Symposia on Solar Electric Power Production, a series that materials to design electronic and electric power systems; electrical commenced in 1986. The lectures contain many technical details that engineering professors (for universities/technical schools) can use are hard to find in textbooks, including those about systems that were it as a textbook. successfully demonstrated but later abandoned due to economic factors, which may be worth revisiting in the future. 580pp Feb 2021 Readership: Historians, researchers, industrialists, and government 978-981-122-691-5 US$178 £155 decision makers interested in photovoltaic and the alternative energy source industry. Textbook Volume 1: Solar Thermal Power Systems 4 Fundamental Physics of Sound 312pp Oct 2019 by S Y Lee (Indiana University, USA) 978-1-78634-756-5 US$118 £105 This is a textbook on the basic sciences Volume 2: 20th Century Photovoltaic Systems of sound. Starting with simple harmonic 300pp Mar 2021 oscillation and wave properties, the book 978-981-123-131-5 US$98 £85 explains the psychoacoustics of our perception of three attributes of sound: loudness, pitch and timbre. It then introduces the basic physics MORE RECOMMENDED TITLES of some musical instruments and human voice. From the point of Advances in Physics and Applications of Optically and Thermally view of physics, musical instruments and human speech are similar, Stimulated Luminescence as both are composed of a sound source and a resonator. The last Chen R (Tel Aviv University, Israel) & Pagonis V (McDaniel College, USA) part covers electricity and magnetism, room acoustics and various 9781786345783 digital technologies in acoustics. This small book is comprehensible, Cavitation understandable and enjoyable to all eager students. Young F R (Watford College, Hertfordshire) 9781860941986 336pp Nov 2020 Principles of Three-Dimensional Imaging in Confocal Microscopes Gu M (Victoria University of Technology, Australia) 9789810225506 978-981-122-259-7 US$98 £85 Industrial Accelerators and Their Applications Hamm R W & Hamm M E (R & M Technical Enterprises, California, USA) Textbook: Request Inspection 9789814307048 Copy at [email protected] Silicon Solid State Devices and Radiation Detection or scan the QR code Leroy C (Universitéde Montréal, Canada) & Rancoita P (INFN, Italy) 9789814390040 For more information, visit: www.worldscientific.com WORLD SCIENTIFIC

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Textbook Large-Scale Peculiar Motions Matter in Motion Introduction to the Theory of by Gary A Wegner (Dartmouth College, USA) the Early Universe (2nd Edition) Volume 1: Hot Big Bang Theory All matter, including galaxies and their constituents, follow orbits and flows driven by the net attraction of near and distant Volume 2: Cosmological Perturbations masses. The book presents the development of studies of peculiar and Inflationary Theory motions along with discoveries in large-scale structure, the cosmic by Valery A Rubakov (Russian Academy of microwave background, baryonic oscillations, gravity waves, and Sciences, Russia & Moscow State University, their relation to current work on gravitation and dark matter. It Russia) & Dmitry S Gorbunov (Russian Academy gives a detailed coverage of peculiar motions including the distance of Sciences, Russia) scale, observational and bias corrections. Some prospects for future Reviews of the First Edition: investigations are also discussed. “This set of two volumes on the early universe is a truly excellent 250pp May 2021 treatise on the subject. The volumes cover both particle physics and 978-981-121-180-5 US$88 £75 general relativity aspects systematically and in detail. The discussion is self-contained and brings out the tremendous progress that has occurred in the last 2–3 decades. It is especially refreshing to see that The Invisible Universe the hype, exaggerations and over-emphasis on fashions one often finds A Journey from Microcosm to Macrocosm and Return in discussions of modern cosmology are not necessary to make the by Antonino Del Popolo (Universitàdegli Studi di Catania, Italy) subject lucid and fascinating. The two volumes can be used either as texts The text describes the story and the protagonists who showed the for advanced courses in cosmology or as ‘handbooks” on the subject need for the existence of the “missing matter”, and puzzles they by active researchers.” Abhay Ashtekar, Pennsylvania State University had to solve to understand that dark matter was not ordinary matter. Readership: Students and researchers interested in cosmology and It recounts the hunt for dark matter, carried out with instruments particle physics. operating in space and built in the bowels of the Earth. It also describes dark energy, which manifests itself in the accelerated expansion of the Volume 1: Hot Big Bang Theory universe, and explains what its existence implies for the future and 596pp Jun 2017 the end of our cosmos. The illustrations and the detailed explanation 978-981-3209-87-9 US$158 £139 provide a deeper understanding of the subject. 978-981-3209-88-6(pbk) US$88 £77 Readership: Science students, professionals and general public Volume 2: Cosmological Perturbations and interested in the field of astronomy. Inflationary Theory 200pp Apr 2021 550pp Nov 2021 978-981-122-943-5 US$88 £75 978-981-3275-62-1 US$168 £150 978-981-3276-69-7(pbk) US$78 £70 Kelvin – Helmholtz Instability in Solar Atmospheric Jets Gamma-Rays and the Interstellar Medium by Ivan Zhelyazkov (Sofia University, Bulgaria) by Yasuo Fukui (Nagoya University, Japan) & & Ramesh Chandra (Kumaun University, India) Gavin Rowell (University of Adelaide, Australia) Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability (KHI) of pro- This book focuses on the linkages between very high energy (TeV) pagating magnetohydrodynamic modes in gamma-ray astronomy and the interstellar medium, as well as the solar flowing structures plays an important key science questions expected to be answered. Their joint study is role in the solar atmosphere. It can trigger the essential if we are to understand the nature of gamma-ray emission onset of wave turbulence leading to effective and hence shed light on where extreme cosmic-rays and electrons plasma heating and particle acceleration. are being accelerated in our galaxy. The book also include discussion KHI is a multifaceted phenomenon and the purpose of this book is on TeV neutrinos as they are intimately tied to the production of to illuminate its (instability) manifestation in various solar jets like gamma-rays of similar energy. spicules, dark mottles, surges, macrospicules, Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray jets, as well as rotating, tornado-like, jets, solar wind, 200pp Sep 2021 5 and coronal mass ejections. 978-981-3239-81-4 US$98 £85 Readership: Researchers in astrophysics and magnetohydrodynamics. Space Time and Dark Matter 250pp Jan 2021 The Hidden Sectors of Particle Physics 978-981-122-374-7 US$98 £85 and Cosmology by Alberto Grasso (Italian Ministry of Chinese Astrology and Astronomy Education, Universities and Research, Italy) An Outside History Key Features: by Xiaoyuan Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong ○ Present a robust model of the University, China) dark matter density distribution translated by Wenan Chen (Ningbo University, in different structures of the China) Universe, from the galactic to the cosmological scales This book discusses the ancient Chinese’s needs and reasons for engaging in astronomy, ○ Revisit the close connection of the “macro-” and “micro-” points of view to verify or constrain the particle physics called “Tianxue” in ancient China. It analyses models of the observed excess of astrophysical matter the cosmological views of ancient Chinese based on ancient astronomical phenomena and manuals, and. It also Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the fields of expounds the nature and functions of astronomy to ancient Chinese, astronomy, cosmology, and particle physics. as well as its difference from the western modern astronomy. 350pp Sep 2021 380pp Dec 2020 978-981-3276-94-9 US$128 £115 978-981-122-345-7 US$128 £115 Physics and Astronomy 2021

World Scientific Series in Astrophysics World Scientific Series in Astrophysics The WSPC Handbook of Astronomical The Encyclopedia of Cosmology Instrumentation (In 4 Volumes) (In 5 Volumes) Volume 1: Galaxy Formation and Evolution Volume 1: Radio Astronomical Instrumentation Volume 2: Numerical Simulations in Cosmology Volume 2: UV, Optical & IR Instrumentation: Part 1 Volume 3: Dark Energy Volume 3: UV, Optical & IR Instrumentation: Part 2 Volume 4: Dark Matter Volume 4: X-ray Astronomical Instrumentation Editor-in-chief: Giovanni G Fazio (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Volume 5: Gamma-Ray and Multimessenger Astronomical Astrophysics, USA) Instrumentation by Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) & Jihn E Kim (Seoul National edited by David N Burrows (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) University, South Korea) edited by Kentaro Nagamine (Osaka University, Japan & A comprehensive handbook of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA) the state of the art of astronomical instrumentation with a forward A thorough review of the most view encompassing the next important concepts and current status decade in the general field of Cosmology, covering both theory and observation This handbook brings together some of the leading experts in the The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, in world to discuss the frontier of four volumes, is a major, long-lasting astronomical instrumentation across the electromagnetic spectrum reference at the graduate student and extending into multimessenger astronomy. It assumes a working level, laid out by the most prominent knowledge of the fundamental theory: optics, semiconductor physics, researchers in the field. One of the etc. It is an ideal reference for graduate students with an interest in attractive features of the encyclopedia is that it is accompanied astronomical instrumentation, as well as practitioners interested in by supplementary materials including videos and simulations of learning about the state of the art in another wavelength band or field the numerical computation, which will help the readers to better closely related to the one in which they currently work. understand and visualize the concepts discussed. Readership: Graduate students and practioners in the field of Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in astronomical instrumentation. cosmology and astrophysics. 1500pp Feb 2021 1404pp May 2018 978-981-4644-31-0(Set) US$1850 £1536 978-981-4656-19-1(Set) US$1280 £1062 Introductory Offer till May 31, 2021 US$1580 £1311 The Dark Energy Survey Textbook The Story of a Cosmological Experiment edited by Ofer Lahav (University College Introduction to Earth Sciences London, UK), Lucy Calder (University College A Physics Approach London, UK), Julian Mayers (University of (2nd Edition) Sussex, UK) & Josh Frieman (Fermi National by Luc Thomas Ikelle (IMODE, USA & Accelerator Laboratory, USA & University of Texas A&M University, USA) Chicago, USA)

Designed for 100-level geophysics and physics “This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in courses, this textbook introduces physical how big science is undertaken. The book focuses processes and properties associated with more on the survey itself rather than dark energy as a phenomenon. It Earth and its surroundings. It aims to familiarize the reader with the encapsulates the ambitions, disappointments, struggles and eventual 6 concepts of elastic and electromagnetic wave propagation, which are success of an international scientific endeavour. … Cosmologists central to geophysical studies. The concepts are illustrated through planning future surveys will benefit from reading how the team coped natural phenomena caused by the earth’s dynamics, such as volcanic with numerous challenges. Historians of science will find much to learn eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, hurricanes, droughts, from the inside view, from design and technical issues to funding and etc. In the second edition, six new chapters are added and all of the management challenges. This is an excellent documentary of big science original twelve chapters have been improved and/or expanded. at its best.” Richard Ellis, University College London 876pp Apr 2020 444pp Sep 2020 978-981-121-302-1 US$218 £190 978-1-78634-835-7 US$128 £115 978-981-121-385-4(pbk) US$118 £105

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Textbook Textbook Stars and Space with MATLAB Apps Advanced Textbooks in Physics With Companion Media Pack Astronomical Spectroscopy by Dan Green (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) An Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Astronomical Spectroscopy This book explores recent advances in the understanding (3rd Edition) of star formation and evolution using the Matlab App. All by Jonathan Tennyson (University College London, UK) the topics are treated in a unified way to combine text, figures, formulae and numeric input and output. In this way “The first two editions of this the reader may vary parameters and see the results in real textbook have received well- time. That experience aids in building up an intuitive feel for the many specific deserved high acclaims, and this problems given in this text. — the third edition — deserves no Contents: Getting Started with Matlab; Apps for Stars; Stellar Evolution; Apps less. Its explanations of the whole for Solar Exploration; Apps for Star Treks; Additional Miscellaneous Topics; gamut of atomic and molecular Appendices spectroscopy provide a solid grasp of the theory as well as how to 248pp Jun 2020 understand such spectra in practice. 978-981-121-602-2 US$98 £85 It thus makes an ideal companion 978-981-121-635-0(pbk) US$48 £40 to books that start from the observational aspect of spectroscopy, whether in the lab or at the telescope ... Also See This new edition of Tennyson’s book ought to be in the library of every astronomical department.” The Observatory Cosmology with MATLAB Magazine With Companion Media Pack by Dan Green (Fermilab) Readership: Undergraduates and postgraduates studying astronomical spectroscopy. 264pp Jul 2016 978-981-3108-39-4 US$78 £65 284pp Jun 2019 978-981-3108-40-0(pbk) US$38 £32 978-1-78634-694-0 US$88 £75 978-1-78634-707-7(pbk) US$48 £40

Textbook Theory of Satellite Fragmentation in Orbit MORE RECOMMENDED TITLES by Arjun Tan (Alabama A&M University, USA) & An Introduction to Particle Dark Matter Robert C Reynolds (STAR Dynamics, USA) by Profumo S (UC Santa Cruz & Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, USA) 9781786340016 For over half a century, an increasing number of satellites Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology have fragmented in orbit, creating a large amount of by Böhmer C G (University College London, UK) hazardous orbital debris which threaten the safety of 9781786341181 useful functioning satellites and space missions. This book Black Holes discusses the theory behind these fragmentations followed : A Student Text (3rd Edition) Raine D (University of Leicester, UK) & by studies of actual cases. Thomas E (University of Leicester, UK) 9781783264827 The book begins with a survey of satellite fragmentations in orbit and the Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes consequent formation of orbital debris in chronological order. Next, the by Hawking S (Cambridge) 9789810210793 fundamental physical processes underlying satellite fragmentations are outlined Hawking Radiation: From Astrophysical Black Holes to and the methods of analyzing satellite fragmentations presented. The rest of the Analogous Systems in Lab book presents analyses of the major satellite fragmentation events including Belgiorno F D (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), accidental and intentional breakups. Cacciatori S L (Universitàdegli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy) & Faccio D (Heriot-Watt University, UK) 9789814508537 380pp Jan 2020 978-981-120-855-3 US$128 £115 Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array The CTA Consortium 9789813270084 7 Studying Distant Galaxies: A Handbook of Methods Textbook and Analyses Hammer F (Paris Observatory, France), Puech M (Paris About Stars Observatory, France), Flores H (Paris Observatory, Their Formation, Evolution, Compositions, France) & Rodrigues M (Paris Observatory, France) Locations and Companions 9781786341440 by Michael M Woolfson (University of York, UK) Star Formation Krumholz M R (Australian National University, Australia) This textbook describes the means — some very ingenious 9789813142039 — by which to explore the properties, locations and planetary companions of stars, and provides a sound The Structure and Evolution of Stars foundation for further study. Astronomers typically find by Eldridge J (University of Auckland, New Zealand) the properties and distances of stars from the light they emit. However, the stars & Tout C A (University of Cambridge, UK) themselves are laboratories in which matter behaves in ways that cannot be 9781783265800 reproduced on Earth. So, in finding out about stars, we complement scientific A Superfluid Universe knowledge gained from earthbound experimentation. by Huang K (MIT) 9789813148451 Neutrino Astronomy: Current Status, Future Prospects Readership: Undergraduate students in physics, as well as the educated laypeople. edited by Gaisser T (University of Delaware, USA) & 388pp Aug 2019 Karle A (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 978-1-78634-712-1 US$88 £75 9789814759403 978-1-78634-725-1(pbk) US$38 £35 Physics and Astronomy 2021

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Concepts in Relativistic Textbook Dynamics by Lawrence Horwitz (Tel Aviv University, Special Relativity, Tensors, Ramat Aviv, Israel & Bar Ilan University, Ramat and Energy Tensor Gan, Israel & Ariel University, Ariel, Israel) With Worked Problems by Somnath Datta (National Council of This book deals with underlying basic Educational Research and Training, India) concepts in relativity. The fundamental work of Stueckelberg, who formulated a consistent This book takes the reader from the preliminary relativistic classical and quantum dynamics, ideas of the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) generalized for application to many-body to the doorsteps of the General Theory of systems by Horwitz and Piron (SHP theory), is explained with emphasis Relativity (GTR). The first part introduces the main concepts, such on its conceptual content. This book also includes a wealth of new as STR, the Lorentz transformation and relativistic mechanics. Then, concepts this work has uncovered, such as the recent embedding of the concept of tensors is built up in detail, especially Maxwell’s stress SHP theory into general relativity which generates many new ideas tensor with illustrative examples. The graphs of important equations with application to stellar dynamics and cosmology. are included and a large number of numerical examples are taken from atomic and nuclear physics. 150pp Dec 2021 978-981-120-731-0 US$78 £70 Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate physics students. 350pp Mar 2021 Einstein’s Relativity in Great Britain 978-981-122-811-7 US$118 £105 From Eddington to Hawking and Penrose. A Tale of Physicists, Astronomers, Mathematicians and Philosophers by José M Sánchez-Ron (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) Textbook The publication of Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity in General Relativity 1905 and 1915 received attention from a wide variety of British scholars, A First Examination whose reactions varied from deep acceptance to straightforward (2nd Edition) opposition. This book analyzes those reactions, which involved a by Marvin Blecher (Virginia Tech, USA) large number of important scientists as well as philosophers, such as Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell. The study will cover from the This textbook is suitable for a one-semester 1910s till the 1960s, when the work of a group of relativists centered introduction to General Relativity for advanced in Cambridge (Sciama and Hawking) and London (Bondi, Pirani and undergraduates in physics and engineering. The Penrose) made a new, fresh approach to general relativity. materials are kept concise by focusing on the theoretical development without digressing too much into advanced Readership: Physicists, astronomers, mathematicians, philosophers, mathematics. The exposition is lucid and the reader is exposed to a and general audience interested in history of science. variety of analytic calculations. End-of-chapter problems are provided 250pp Oct 2021 with detailed solutions available in the instructor’s manual. 978-981-120-028-1 US$98 £85 In the second edition, the famous twin paradox with acceleration is solved in full from the accelerated observer’s frame. The findings of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which captured the Textbook first ever image of a black hole, are discussed in detail. Gravitational Lensing in Cosmology 240pp Aug 2020 by Toshifumi Futamase (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan) 978-981-122-043-2 US$78 £70 978-981-122-108-8(pbk) US$38 £35 ○ Starts from the basics of general relativity and systematically develops the theory of gravitational lensing ○ Helps students to catch up with the latest research findings Interacting Gravitational, ○ Covers both the theory and a wide range of applications Electromagnetic, Neutrino and 8 of gravitational lensing which are not available in usual Other Waves textbooks of cosmology In the Context of Einstein’s General Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics Theory of Relativity and astronomy. by Anzhong Wang (Baylor University, USA) 200pp Jun 2021 This book is devoted to researchers who 978-981-3276-78-9 US$98 £85 would like to investigate interactions among gravitational waves and matter fields beyond linear order, including the phenomena of memory effects, The Advent of Relativity gravitational Faraday rotation, soft theorems, and formations of space- by Voldemar Smilga (University of Nantes, France) time singularities due to the mutual focus of gravitational waves. The This book explains the history of the discovery of special relativity to author presents exact solutions for a variety of models, including any person with a high school background. It narrates how physicists, the collisions of two plane gravitational waves and the collisions of from Galileo, Newton to Lorentz, Poincare and Einstein were distracted a plane gravitational wave with a dust shell, a massless scalar wave, in their reflections by numerous fallacies (like aether, dragged or an electromagnetic wave, or a neutrino wave. Readers only require a not), but eventually reached the laws of kinematics and dynamics of basic understanding of general relativity to understand the materials. the objects moving at high speed. The last chapter “Photon dreams” Readership: Graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in caters to the science fiction fans, in which the author proves to the investigations of gravitational waves and their nonlinear interactions disappointed reader that the laws of physics that we know do not allow among themselves and with matter fields. the construction of spaceships that could reach even the nearest stars during the life span of the crew. 220pp Mar 2020 978-981-121-148-5 US$98 £85 350pp Jan 2021 978-981-123-114-8 US$58 £50 For more information, visit: www.worldscientific.com WORLD SCIENTIFIC

Loop Quantum Gravity for Jacob Bekenstein Everyone The Conservative Revolutionary by Rodolfo Gambini (University of the edited by Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Republic, Uruguay), Jorge Pullin (Louisiana Technology, Sweden), Viatcheslav Mukhanov State University, USA) (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, Germany), Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew Selected as a Choice Outstanding University of Jerusalem, Israel) & K K Phua Academic Title for 2020 (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Jacob Bekenstein, an Israeli physicist of the “In this remarkably well-written text, the authors Hebrew University, Jerusalem, planted the introduce readers gently to the conceptual seeds of a revolution of our understanding of space-time. Using bricks of LQG without using any mathematics (quite an achievement). conservative intuitive methods including time-old gedanken The debate started with the discovery that the space-time geometry experiments, he discovered that black holes have thermodynamical of general relativity can be written in terms of the electromagnetic properties such as entropy. field. This led to intersecting graphs called loops. Now known as spin networks, they are the foundations of LQG. This slender volume This book contains a series of scientific and personal contributions by discusses applications of LQG to black holes and cosmology and his contemporaries who recall the struggle against his ideas and then introduces the notion of spin foam, acknowledging that as yet the theory, with them: the fate accompanying many revolutionary ideas. This is though elegant, has no experimental confirmation ... This book offers followed by original scientific contributions by many of the leaders a fascinating introduction to an esoteric realm otherwise accessible to of current research on black hole physics and holography. They have trodden his path and expanded it. The impact of Bekenstein’s visionary only a fortunate few.”. CHOICE ideas is just starting to be understood.

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Lattice Quantum Field Theory of It is now commonly being realized that in the the Dirac and Gauge Fields last forty years there has been no significant Selected Topics progress in the fundamental theoretical by Belal Ehsan Baaquie (INCEIF, The Global physics. A reason certainly lies in stumbling University of Islamic Finance, Malaysia) blocks on our way towards the unification of interaction and of The applications of lattice gauge theory are gravity with quantum mechanics. The book starts with reviewing some vast, from the study of high-energy theory historical cases, such as the arguments against the Earth rotation, and phenomenology to the numerical studies or the famous problem of ¾ in the theory of electromagnetic mass of quantum fields. This book examines the of electron. The author then discusses what he perceives as some mathematical foundations of lattice gauge persisting misconceptions existing today that have not yet been theory from first principles. It is an ideal guide for the study of Dirac recognized by the physics community in general. and lattice gauge fields and lays the foundation for more advanced Readership: Researchers and post graduate students in theoretical and specialized studies. and high energy physics.

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Probing Particle Physics with Tullio Regge: An Eclectic Genius Neutrino Telescopes From Quantum Gravity to Computer Play edited by Carlos Pérez de los Heros edited by Leonardo Castellani (University of (Uppsala University, Sweden) Eastern Piedmont, Italy), Anna Ceresole (National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Written for both mathematicians and physicists, Turin, Italy), Riccardo D’Auria (Polytechnic this book explains the theoretical formulation University of Turin, Italy) & Pietro Fré of quantum field theory with a mixture of (University of Turin, Italy) rigorous proofs and heuristic arguments. It is Key Features: not assumed that the reader is familiar with Major publications of Regge quantum mechanics; a short introduction to quantum mechanics is ○ accompanied by commentaries by contemporary scholars included for mathematicians. including Kip Thorne and Gabriele Veneziano. 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Textbook OPTICS Lectures of Sidney Coleman on Quantum Field Theory The Vortex Atom Foreword by David Kaiser A New Paradigm edited by Bryan Gin-ge Chen (Leiden University, by Barry R Clarke (Brunel University, UK) Netherlands), David Derbes (University of Chicago, USA), David Griffiths (Reed College, This is an entirely original examination of USA), Brian Hill (Saint Mary’s College of unsolved problems in theoretical physics. California, USA), Richard Sohn (Kronos, Inc., Working with the latest experimental data in Lowell, USA) & Yuan-Sen Ting (Harvard University, USA) photoionics, the author proposes a solution to the wave-particle dilemma based on an “There are many testimonials to Coleman’s devotion as a teacher, his array of circular-polarized rays. The Bose – unfailing helpfulness and his concern that each student should develop Einstein counting procedure is recast in terms their understanding of the subject ... Now his lectures have been of distinguishable elements. 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QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION

Textbook Textbook Essential Textbooks in Physics Essentials of Quantum Application-Driven Quantum and Mechanics and Relativity Statistical Physics by Shangwu Qian (Peking University, China) (3-Volume Series) This book introduces in a concise manner by Jean-Michel Gillet (CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, the essentials of quantum mechanics and France & Centrale Pékin, Beihang University, China) relativity, and along the way basic mathematical Bridging the gap between traditional books on quantum and statistical knowledge required to understand the topics. It physics, this series is an ideal introductory course for students looking abides by the less-is-more principle and adopts for an alternative approach to the traditional academic treatment. For an approach that is easy to follow. Based on courses given to senior every new concept introduced, an application is given to connect the students of the Physics Department of the University of North Texas, theoretical results to a real-life situation. Each volume features in-text it is suitable for a one-semester introductory course for advanced exercises and detailed solutions, with easy-to-understand examples. undergraduate students. Interested students can also used this as a study guide for self-learning. Readership: Undergraduate students; graduate students who wish to return and learn the subject from a different perspective. 300pp Nov 2020 978-981-122-118-7 US$68 £60 Volume 1: Foundations “From the basics and up to the generalized The Quantum Universe Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of Essays on Quantum Mechanics, Quantum quantum mechanics, the book is punctuated with Cosmology and Physics in General extremely well-chosen examples. … Conceptual by James B Hartle (University of California at understanding is at the center of Gillet’s solved Santa Barbara, USA) examples; a truly unique feature of this book.” As physics has progressed, its fundamental Chérif F Matta, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada theories have become more distant from everyday experience, posing challenges for This first volume sets the scene of a new physics. It explains the origin understanding, the most notable example of quantum mechanics and its connection to classical physics. It being quantum mechanics. To address such examines how very simple models can explain a variety of applications challenges, the author explains in 29 essays the pressing questions such as scanning tunnel microscopes, quantum cryptography, masers, in quantum mechanics, quantum cosmology and physics in general. and how fluorescence can unveil the past of art pieces. Examples include: How do we apply quantum mechanics to the whole 300pp Nov 2018 universe when all observers are inside? What do we mean by past, 978-1-78634-554-7 US$98 £86 present, and future in a four-dimensional universe? The essays vary 978-1-78634-690-2(pbk) US$45 £35 in length, style, and level but should be accessible to most physicists. 400pp Dec 2020 Volume 2: Equilibrium 978-981-121-639-8 US$108 £95 “the book is divided into two parts, one on quantum mechanics and one on statistical physics, Textbook both with a strong emphasis on applications. … this is a highly recommended textbook, which A Quantum Leap in Information fully achieves its goal of transmitting knowledge Theory in an original and thought-provoking way.” by Stefano Mancini (University of Camerino, Contemporary Physics Italy) & Andreas Winter (ICREA, Spain & Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) 32 Building on the principles of quantum mechanics introduced in Volume 1, this second volume explains the This is an introductory textbook on the structure of atoms, the vibration and rotation of molecules, as well as quantum theory of information at graduate or their relations to thermodynamics through statistical physics. advanced undergraduate level. It is suitable for students with diverse backgrounds, in mathematics, physics and 336pp Dec 2018 computer science. In particular, a background in quantum mechanics 978-1-78634-557-8 US$98 £86 is not needed, since quantum theory is used as a mere mathematical 978-1-78634-703-9(pbk) US$45 £40 framework without entering into physical interpretations.

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STATISTICAL PHYSICS, COMPLEXITY AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (INCLUDING HEAT AND THERMODYNAMICS)

Textbook Textbook Advanced Textbooks in Physics Statistical Mechanics Topics in Statistical Mechanics by Peter Riseborough (Temple University, USA) (2nd Edition) Key Features: by Brian Cowan (University of London, UK) ○ Elucidates the basis of Reviews of the First Edition: thermodynamics and provides a “Cowan has managed to capture the rich foundation for the understanding field of statistical mechanics in a concise and of not only the thermodynamic truly excellent exposition. His text should be properties of a microscopic system, accessible to good advanced undergraduates, and certainly to first- or but also their fluctuations, correlations and close-to- second-year graduate students in physics, mathematics, or engineering.” equilibrium properties. Mathematical Reviews ○ Provides much of the mathematical details that, otherwise, may hinder students mastering the subject Building on the material learned by students in their first few years ○ Includes material on quantum statistics that is frequently of study, this textbook presents an advanced course on statistical overlooked in current texts, but forms an important mechanics and thermodynamics. The second edition has been revised aspect of current research into quantum systems particularly to help the self-learners. The details of Mathematica calculations are provided in most cases, including Mathematica Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students reading Notebooks and expressions of some results in terms of Special a course in Statistical Mechanics or Statistical Physics. Functions. 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✔ Title Page ✔ Title Page ✔ Title Page ❑ 30 YEARS OF BES PHYSICS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM ❑ INFINITE DIMENSIONAL AND FINITE DIMENSIONAL STOCHASTIC ❑ PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM COMPUTATION AND INFORMATION: ON 30 YEARS OF BES PHYSICS...... 29 EQUATIONS AND APPLICATIONS IN PHYSICS...... 15 A COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK...... 33 ❑ ABCS OF HIGH-PRESSURE SCIENCE, THE...... 4 ❑ INTERACTING GRAVITATIONAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC, NEUTRINO AND ❑ PROBING PARTICLE PHYSICS WITH NEUTRINO TELESCOPES...... 30 ❑ “ABOUT STARS: THEIR FORMATION, EVOLUTION, COMPOSITIONS, OTHER WAVES: IN THE CONTEXT OF EINSTEIN’S GENERAL ❑ PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON ATOMIC, NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE LOCATIONS AND COMPANIONS“...... 7 ❑ THEORY OF RELATIVITY...... 8 PHYSICS...... 21 ❑ ADIABATIC THERMODYNAMICS OF FLUIDS: FROM HYDRODYNAMICS ❑ INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL MECHANICS...... 11 ❑ PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETISM...... 21 TO GENERAL RELATIVITY...... 34 ❑ INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL MECHANICS: SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS...... 11 ❑ PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON MECHANICS (SECOND EDITION)...... 21 ❑ ADVANCES IN THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF ❑ INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCES: A PHYSICS APPROACH ❑ PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON OPTICS (SECOND EDITION)...... 21 HIGH TEMPERATURE CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY...... 18 (SECOND EDITION)...... 6 ❑ PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON QUANTUM MECHANICS...... 21 ❑ ADVENT OF RELATIVITY, THE...... 8 ❑ INTRODUCTION TO HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS: PARTICLE PHYSICS ❑ PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON SOLID STATE PHYSICS, RELATIVITY A ❑ AGE OF THE EARTH, THE: A PHYSICIST’S ODYSSEY...... 24 FOR THE BEGINNER...... 27 ND MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS...... 21 ❑ ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES IN INTEGRABILITY: FOREWORD BY ❑ INTRODUCTION TO INVERSE PROBLEMS IN PHYSICS, AN...... 13 ❑ PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL VICTOR KAC...... 14 ❑ INTRODUCTION TO LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS, AN (2ND EDITION)...... 11 MECHANICS...... 21 ❑ ALPINE PHYSICS: SCIENCE IN THE MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT...... 25 ❑ INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE: ❑ ❑ PROGRESS IN ADVANCED DIELECTRICS...... 19 ANALYTIC THEORY OF MULTI-STREAM ELECTRON BEAMS IN COSMOLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS AND INFLATIONARY THEORY (2ND ED)..... 5 ❑ QUANTUM COMPUTING: PHYSICS, BLOCKCHAINS, AND DEEP TRAVELING WAVE TUBES, AN...... 20 ❑ INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE: HOT BIG LEARNING SMART NETWORKS...... 33 ❑ APPLICATION-DRIVEN QUANTUM AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS: A SHORT BANG THEORY (SECOND EDITION)...... 5 ❑ ❑ QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, QUANTUM PHYSICS AND MICRO-MACRO COURSE FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS - VOLUME 1: ...... INVISIBLE UNIVERSE, THE: A JOURNEY FROM MICROCOSM TO DUALITY...... 15 FOUNDATIONS...... 32 MACROCOSM AND RETURN...... 5 ❑ QUANTUM LEAP IN INFORMATION THEORY, A...... 32 ❑ APPLICATION-DRIVEN QUANTUM AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS: A SHORT ❑ JACOB BEKENSTEIN: THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTIONARY...... 9 ❑ ❑ QUANTUM MECHANICS IN POTENTIAL REPRESENTATION AND COURSE FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS - VOLUME 2: ...... KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY IN SOLAR ATMOSPHERIC JETS...... 5 APPLICATIONS...... 26 EQUILIBRIUM...... 32 ❑ LARGE-SCALE PECULIAR MOTIONS: MATTER IN MOTION...... 5 ❑ ❑ ❑ QUANTUM UNIVERSE, THE: ESSAYS ON QUANTUM MECHANICS, APPLICATION-DRIVEN QUANTUM AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS: A SHORT LATTICE QUANTUM FIELD THEORY OF THE DIRAC AND GAUGE FIELDS: QUANTUM COSMOLOGY AND PHYSICS IN GENERAL...... 32 COURSE FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS - VOLUME 3: SELECTED TOPICS...... 29 ❑ ❑ REVIEWS OF ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - TRANSITIONS...... 32 LECTURE NOTES ON MECHANICS: INTERMEDIATE LEVEL...... 11 VOLUME 10: THE FUTURE OF ACCELERATORS...... 30 ❑ ❑ APPLICATIONS OF FIELD THEORY METHODS IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS LECTURES OF DAVID OLIVE ON GAUGE THEORIES AND LIE ALGEBRAS: ❑ ROMAN JACKIW: 80TH BIRTHDAY FESTSCHRIFT...... 13 OF NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS...... 34 WITH SOME APPLICATIONS TO SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY ❑ ❑ ❑ RUBIDIUM ATOMIC CLOCK: THE WORKHORSE OF SATELLITE NAVIGATION..... 4 AS THE WORLD TURNS: THE HISTORY OF PROVING THE EARTH BREAKING AND INTEGRABLE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS - WITH FOREWORD ❑ S CHANDRASEKHAR: SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE AND ROTATES...... 24 BY LARS BRINK...... 28 ❑ ❑ CONVERSATIONS...... 25 ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROSCOPY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ATOMIC LECTURES OF SIDNEY COLEMAN ON QUANTUM FIELD THEORY: ❑ SCALE TRANSITIONS AS FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS...... 13 AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS OF ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROSCOPY FOREWORD BY DAVID KAISER...... 31 ❑ ❑ LECTURES ON ACCELERATOR PHYSICS...... 28 SCIENCE OF LEARNING PHYSICS, THE: COGNITIVE STRATEGIES (THIRD EDITION)...... 7 FOR IMPROVING INSTRUCTION...... 20 ❑ ❑ LECTURES ON CELLULAR BIOPHYSICS: FROM MOLECULES TO TISSUES..... 10 BASIC PHYSICS...... 21 ❑ SOFT MATTER AND BIOMATERIALS ON THE NANOSCALE: THE WSPC ...... ❑ BASIC PHYSICS OF QUANTUM THEORY, THE...... 33 ❑ LECTURES ON QUANTUM FIELD THEORY (SECOND EDITION)...... 29 ❑ REFERENCE ON FUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS - PART I (IN 4 VOLUMES).... 19 ❑ CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, A: THE MYTH, MAGIC AND MEASURE OF LECTURES ON STATISTICAL MECHANICS...... 35 ❑ ❑ SONG FOR MOLLY, A...... 23 METEORITES...... 23 LECTURES ON THE NON-EQUILIBRIUM THEORY OF CONDENSED ❑ ❑ MATTER (SECOND EDITION)...... 17 SPACE TIME AND DARK MATTER: THE HIDDEN SECTORS OF PARTICLE CHASING THE GHOST: NOBELIST FRED REINES AND THE NEUTRINO...... 22 PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY...... 5 ❑ ❑ LIGHT POWER: HALF A CENTURY OF SOLAR ELECTRICITY RESEARCH - CHINESE ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY: AN OUTSIDE HISTORY...... 5 ❑ SPACE-TIME, YANG-MILLS GRAVITY, AND DYNAMICS OF COSMIC ❑ CLASSICAL MECHANICS (5TH EDITION)...... 11 VOLUME 1: SOLAR THERMAL POWER SYSTEMS...... 4 ❑ EXPANSION...... 14 ❑ COHERENT STATES IN GAUGE THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS IN LIGHT POWER: HALF A CENTURY OF SOLAR ELECTRICITY RESEARCH - ❑ VOLUME 2: 20TH CENTURY PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS...... 4 SPECIAL RELATIVITY, TENSORS, AND ENERGY TENSOR: WITH COLLIDER PHYSICS...... 30 WORKED PROBLEMS...... 8 ❑ COMPACT MUON SOLENOID EXPERIMENT, THE: THE SCIENCE AND ❑ LINEAR AND NONLINEAR WAVE PROPAGATION...... 20 ❑ ❑ STARS AND SPACE WITH MATLAB APPS (WITH COMPANION MEDIA PACK)...... 7 THE STORY...... 27 LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY FOR EVERYONE...... 9 ❑ ❑ ❑ LOW-ENERGY EXCITATIONS IN DISORDERED SOLIDS: A STORY OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEWS ON ENERGETIC ION-ATOM AND CONCEPTS IN RELATIVISTIC DYNAMICS...... 8 ION-MOLECULE COLLISIONS...... 10 ❑ COSMIC PINWHEELS: SPIRAL GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE...... 23 ‘UNIVERSAL’ PHENOMENA OF STRUCTURAL TUNNELING...... 16 ❑ ❑ ❑ MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTION NETWORKS: STATISTICAL MECHANICS...... 34 COSMOLOGY WITH MATLAB: WITH COMPANION MEDIA PACK...... 7 ❑ STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION: ❑ DARK ENERGY SURVEY, THE: THE STORY OF A COSMOLOGICAL AN INTRODUCTION...... 18 ❑ MAJORANA CASE, THE: LETTERS, DOCUMENTS, TESTIMONIES...... 25 DETERMINISM, INDETERMINISM AND LAWS OF NATURE...... 13 EXPERIMENT...... 6 ❑ STATISTICAL PHYSICS OF DNA: AN INTRODUCTION TO MELTING, ❑ DAY AT CERN, A: GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE HEART OF PARTICLE ❑ MATHEMATICAL FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS (SECOND REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION)...... 15 UNZIPPING AND FLEXIBILITY OF THE DOUBLE HELIX...... 35 PHYSICS...... 24 ❑ STUMBLING BLOCKS AGAINST UNIFICATION: ON SOME PERSISTENT ❑ DEFECTS IN FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS...... 17 ❑ MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY...... 29 ❑ ❑ MATHEMATICAL JOURNEY THROUGH DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF MISCONCEPTIONS IN PHYSICS...... 29 DIAGRAMMATICS: LECTURES ON SELECTED PROBLEMS IN CONDENSED ❑ SUBATOMIC PHYSICS - AN INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE MATTER THEORY (2ND EDITION)...... 19 PHYSICS, A...... 15 ❑ ❑ MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR PHYSICISTS...... 14 PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS...... 26 DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY THROUGH SUPERSYMMETRIC GLASSES...... 13 ❑ SUPERCONDUCTIVITY BEGINS WITH H: BOTH PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD, ❑ DIRAC’S DREAM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAGNETIC MONOPOLE...... 27 ❑ MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS...... 14 ❑ AND MISUNDERSTOOD: SUPERCONDUCTIVITY B ❑ DISEASES FROM OUTER SPACE - OUR COSMIC DESTINY (2ND EDITION)...... 24 MATHEMATICS OF HARMONY AS A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY DIRECTION ❑ ❑ AND “GOLDEN” PARADIGM OF MODERN SCIENCE - VOLUME 1: ASICS RETHOUGHT...... 18 EINSTEIN’S RELATIVITY IN GREAT BRITAIN: FROM EDDINGTON TO ❑ SUPERGRAVITY PRIMER, A: FROM GEOMETRICAL PRINCIPLES TO HAWKING AND PENROSE. A TALE OF PHYSICISTS, ASTRONOMERS, THE GOLDEN SECTION, FIBONACCI NUMBERS, PASCAL TRIANGLE, AND PLATONIC SOLIDS...... 15 THE FINAL LAGRANGIAN...... 30 MATHEMATICIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS...... 8 ❑ ❑ ❑ MATHEMATICS PRIMER FOR PHYSICS STUDENTS, A...... 12 SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGE ANALYSIS OF PHOTOACTIVE MATERIALS...... 19 ELASTIC CONSTANTS, HEAVILY DOPED LOW DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS...... 16 ❑ ❑ TALE OF TWO TWINS, A: THE LANGEVIN EXPERIMENT OF A TRAVELER ❑ ELECTROMAGNETIC ANISOTROPY AND BIANISOTROPY: A FIELD GUIDE MEAN FIELD THEORY...... 26 ❑ MECHANICS OF FLUID DEFORMATIONS IN RIGID BODY ROTATIONS TO A STAR...... 24 (SECOND EDITION)...... 20 ❑ ❑ AND PLANE CHANNEL FLOW STABILITY...... 11 THEORETICAL PHYSICS IN YOUR FACE: SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF DIRAC AND WEYL SEMIMETALS...... 17 ❑ OF SIDNEY COLEMAN...... 12 ❑ ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTION AND LATTICE DYNAMICS IN HIGH TC MEMORIAL VOLUME FOR SHOUCHENG ZHANG...... 16 ❑ MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS MEETS QUANTUM ENGINEERING...... 33 ❑ THEORY OF GROUPS AND SYMMETRIES: FINITE GROUPS, LIE GROUPS, SUPERCONDUCTORS...... 18 ❑ AND LIE ALGEBRAS...... 13 ❑ ELECTRONS IN MOTION: ATTOSECOND PHYSICS EXPLORES FASTEST “MICRO-PATTERN GASEOUS DETECTORS: PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION AND APPLICATIONS“...... 28 ❑ THEORY OF GROUPS AND SYMMETRIES: REPRESENTATIONS OF DYNAMICS...... 31 GROUPS AND LIE ALGEBRAS, APPLICATIONS...... 13 ❑ ❑ MODELING ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION: FROM STATISTICS TO MATHEMATICS...... 35 37 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COSMOLOGY, THE (IN 4 VOLUMES)...... 6 ❑ ❑ THEORY OF SATELLITE FRAGMENTATION IN ORBIT...... 7 ❑ EQUIDISTRIBUTION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: TIME-QUANTITATIVE MODIFIED GRAVITY: PROGRESSES AND OUTLOOK OF THEORIES, NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES AND OBSERVATIONAL TESTS...... 9 ❑ THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS AND RELAXATION PROCESSES IN SECOND LAW...... 34 ❑ NANOMAGNETS...... 35 ❑ NEW PHENOMENA AND NEW STATES OF MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE: ESSENTIAL CLASSICAL MECHANICS...... 11 FROM QUARKS TO COSMOS...... 27 ❑ THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS...... 35 ❑ ESSENTIAL CLASSICAL MECHANICS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS...... 11 ❑ ❑ ❑ NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS OF HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS THIN FILM PHYSICS AND DEVICES: FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISM, ESSENTIALS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS AND RELATIVITY...... 32 MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS FOR THIN FILMS...... 17 ❑ (SECOND EDITION)...... 34 EVENTFUL JOURNEY TO UNIFICATION OF ALL THE FUNDAMENTAL ❑ ON FOUNDATIONS OF SEISMOLOGY: BRINGING IDEALIZATIONS DOWN ❑ THZ DYNAMICS OF LIQUIDS PROBED BY INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING, FORCES, AN...... 14 THE...... 17 ❑ TO EARTH...... 12 FINITE QUANTUM MANY-BODY PROBLEM, THE: SELECTED PAPERS OF ❑ OPTOMAGNONIC STRUCTURES: NOVEL ARCHITECTURES FOR ❑ TOPICS IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS (SECOND EDITION)...... 34 AAGE BOHR...... 26 ❑ ❑ SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL OF LIGHT AND SPIN WAVES...... 17 TOPICS ON STRONG GRAVITY: A MODERN VIEW ON THEORIES AND FLEXOELECTRICITY IN SOLID, SOFT AND LIVING MATTER...... 16 ❑ ORDER, DISORDER AND CRITICALITY: ADVANCED PROBLEMS OF EXPERIMENTS...... 9 ❑ FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY...... 29 ❑ ❑ PHASE TRANSITION THEORY - VOLUME 6...... 35 TULLIO REGGE: AN ECLECTIC GENIUS: FROM QUANTUM GRAVITY TO FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECTS: NEW DEVELOPMENTS...... 18 ❑ ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE: FROM BIG BANG TO COMPUTER PLAY...... 30 ❑ FROM CLASSICAL MECHANICS TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, A TUTORIAL... 33 ❑ ❑ EXOBIOLOGY (SECOND EDITION)...... 23 TWO-PHASE EMISSION DETECTORS...... 28 FROM PHOTONS TO ATOMS: THE ELECTROMAGNETIC NATURE OF MATTER.... 10 ❑ OUR CELESTIAL CLOCKWORK: FROM ANCIENT ORIGINS TO MODERN ❑ ULTRACOLD NEUTRONS...... 26 ❑ FROM THALES TO GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: THE SCIENTIFIC ASTRONOMY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM...... 23 ❑ ULTRA-HIGH-Q OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES...... 31 PERSPECTIVE...... 22 ❑ PARTICLES IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE: HIGH-ENERGY LIMIT OF THE ❑ UNDERSTANDING GRAVITY: THE GENERATION MODEL APPROACH...... 12 ❑ FRUSTRATED SPIN SYSTEMS (THIRD EDITION)...... 18 ❑ STANDARD MODEL FROM THE CONTRACTION OF ITS GAUGE GROUP...... 30 ❑ VORTEX ATOM, THE: A NEW PARADIGM...... 31 FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS OF SOUND...... 4 ❑ PEAR-SHAPED NUCLEI...... 26 ❑ ❑ FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTUM MATERIALS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WAVEFRONTS AND RAYS AS CHARACTERISTICS AND ASYMPTOTICS ❑ PHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HYDRODYNAMIC PROCESSES, THE: (THIRD EDITION)...... 12 SYNTHESIS AND EXPLORATION...... 17 MACROSCOPIC AND KINETIC APPROACHES...... 14 ❑ WAVES AND RAYS IN ELASTIC CONTINUA (FOURTH EDITION)...... 12 ❑ GAMMA-RAYS AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM...... 5 ❑ ❑ PHYSICS IN THE LIFE SCIENCES: PHYSICS FOR LIFE SCIENCE STUDENTS.. 10 ❑ WAVES AND RAYS IN SEISMOLOGY: ANSWERS TO UNASKED QUESTIONS GENERAL RELATIVITY: A FIRST EXAMINATION (SECOND EDITION)...... 8 ❑ PHYSICS OF ELECTRONS IN SOLIDS...... 16 ❑ GEOFFREY CHEW MEMORIAL VOLUME...... 28 (THIRD EDITION)...... 12 ❑ PHYSICS OF EXPERIMENT INSTRUMENTATION USING MATLAB APPS, THE... 28 ❑ WORLD OF CHIPS: ROAMING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WORLD...... 22 ❑ GRAVITATIONAL LENSING IN COSMOLOGY...... 8 ❑ ❑ PHYSICS OF LIVING MATTER: SPACE, TIME AND INFORMATION, THE - 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Author Page Author Page Author Page Author Page Alert, Ricard...... 10 Faraoni, Valerio...... 25 Kumar, Krishna S...... 27 Santos, Renato P Dos...... 33 Allori, Valia...... 13 Fazio, Giovanni G...... 6 Kuznetsov, Andrej...... 17 Sauli, Fabio...... 28 Almpanis, Evangelos...... 17 Fengler, Steffen...... 19 Kwek, Leong-chuan...... 21 Saxena, G M...... 4 Asorey, Manuel...... 33 Figotin, Alexander...... 20 Lahav, Ofer...... 6 Schwarz, Albert...... 29 Baaquie, Belal Ehsan...... 29 Fimin, Nikolay Nikolaevich...... 14 Lai, Choy Heng...... 21 Sevrin, Alexander...... 10 Babusci, Danilo...... 14 Fitzpatrick, Richard...... 35 Lakhtakia, Akhlesh...... 20 Shevchenko, Sergey N...... 33 Banyai, Ladislaus Alexander...... 17 Ford, Kenneth W...... 21 Lee, Choonkyu...... 11 Shimakawa, Koichi...... 19 Barkana, Rennan...... 6 Frampton, Paul H...... 23 Lee, Dominic J O’...... 20 Shlomo, Shalom...... 26 Beck, Jozsef...... 34 Fre, Pietro...... 30 Lee, Seung-wuk...... 19 Shovkovy, Igor A...... 17 Bedeaux, Dick...... 34 Frieman, Joshua A...... 6 Lee, Shyh-yuan...... 4 Shraiman, Boris...... 10 Beech, Martin...... 23 Fring, Andreas...... 28 Lein, Max...... 15 Slawinski, Michael A...... 12 Belkic, Dzevad...... 10 Fronsdal, Christian...... 34 Li, Baojiu...... 9 Smilga, Andrei...... 13 Benenti, Giuliano...... 33 Fukui, Yasuo...... 5 Li, Wen J...... 19 Smilga, Voldemar...... 8 Benguigui, Lucien Gilles...... 24 Funaro, Daniele...... 10 Licciardi, Silvia...... 14 Sohn, Richard...... 31 Berkshire, Frank H...... 11 Futamase, Toshifumi...... 8 Lim, Swee Cheng...... 21 Sokolov, Vladimir V...... 14 Bernstein, Jeremy...... 23 G Marinov, Yordan...... 16 Lim, Yung Kuo...... 21 Stakhov, Alexey...... 15 Blecher, Marvin...... 8 Gambini, Rodolfo...... 9 Ling, Chi-chung Francis...... 17 Steffens, Erhard...... 27 Blechman, Andrew E...... 12 Gang, Oleg...... 19 Lisei, Hannelore...... 15 Stephens, Richard B...... 16 Boller, Thomas...... 27 Ghatak, Kamakhya Prasad...... 16 Liu, Xiao...... 16 Steyerl, Albert...... 26 Bona, Andrej...... 12 Ghosal, Bikash...... 4 Ma, Zhong-qi...... 14 Stishov, Sergei M...... 4 Bray, Igor...... 10 Gillet, Jean-michel...... 32 Mackay, Tom G...... 20 Strini, Giuliano...... 33 Brink, Lars...... 9, 28 Gong, Qihuang...... 31 Malkan, Matthew A...... 23 Sukhachov, Pavlo O...... 17 Brizard, Alain J...... 11 Gorbar, Eduard V...... 17 Mancini, Stefano...... 32 Svozil, Karl...... 14 Broglia, Ricardo Americo...... 26 Gorbunov, Dmitry S...... 5 Marciano, William J...... 27 Swan, Melanie...... 33 Brower, Richard C...... 28 Grasso, Alberto...... 5 Mayers, Julian...... 6 Tan, Arjun...... 7 Brown, James Robert...... 12 Grecksch, Wilfried...... 15 Mazzucchi, Sonia...... 15 Tan, Chung-I...... 28 Bruinsma, Robijn...... 10 Greco, Mario...... 30 Mestre, Jose...... 20 Taylor, P Craig...... 19 Burrows, David N...... 6 Green, Daniel...... 7 Milner, Richard...... 27 Tennyson, Jonathan...... 7 Buta, Ronald J...... 23 Griffiths, David...... 31 Min, Hyunsoo...... 11 Theodorakopoulos, Nikos...... 35 Butch, Nicholas P...... 17 Gromov, Nikolai A...... 30 Miransky, Vladimir A...... 17 Ting, Yuan-sen...... 31 Calder, Lucy...... 6 Gross, David J...... 10 Moore, Anna...... 6 Titov, Sergei V...... 35 Casademunt, Jaume...... 10 Halperin, Bertrand I...... 18 Moretti, Valter...... 33 Tomboulis, Terry...... 13 Casati, Giulio...... 33 Han, Rushan...... 18 Mukhanov, Viatcheslav F...... 9 Tsujikawa, Shinji...... 6 Castellani, Leonardo...... 30 Hartle, James B...... 32 Nagamine, Kentaro...... 6 Turok, Neil...... 28 Ceresole, Anna...... 30 Hendry, Archibald W...... 24 Niemi, Antti...... 13 Valenzuela, Mauricio...... 30 Chandra, Ramesh...... 5 Hess, Peter Otto...... 27 Ojima, Izumi...... 15 Vasconcellos, Chao, Alexander Wu...... 28, 30 Hill, Brian...... 31 Okamura, Kazuya...... 15 Cesar Augusto Zen...... 9, 27 Chechetkin, Valery Mihailovich...... 14 Hirsch, Jorge E...... 18 Paglione, Johnpierre...... 17 Walecka, John Dirk...... 11 Chen, Bryan Gin-ge...... 31 Holovatch, Yurij...... 35 Pancholi, Suresh C...... 26 Wali, Kameshwar C...... 25 Chew, Lock Yue...... 11 Horwitz, Lawrence...... 8 Pavsic, Matej...... 29 Wang, Anzhong...... 8 Chia, Elbert Ee Min...... 11 Hou, Ru...... 35 Perez De Los Heros, Carlos...... 30 Wang, Ke-lin...... 21 Chou, Weiren...... 30 Hsu, Jong-ping...... 14 Petrov, Alexander G...... 16 Wang, Wanli...... 35 Clarke, Barry R...... 31 Hsu, Leonardo...... 14 Phua, Kok Khoo...... 9, 13, 28 Wegner, Gary A...... 5 Coffey, William T...... 35 Huber, Patrick...... 19 Pinfold, James L...... 27 Wickramasinghe, Nalin Chandra.... 24 Cole, Leonard A...... 22 Ikelle, Luc Thomas...... 6 Pivarski, Jim...... 27 Winter, Andreas...... 32 Coleman, Diana...... 12 Isaev, Alexey P...... 13 Podraza, Nikolas J...... 19 Witte, Frank...... 33 38 Collins, Robert W...... 19 Jain, Jainendra K...... 18 Pondrom, Lee G...... 27 Wolszczan, Alexander...... 6 Cunsolo, Alessandro...... 17 Janavicius, Arvydas Juozapas...... 26 Pullin, Jorge...... 9 Wong, Ke-lin...... 21 Das, Ashok...... 29 Jaroszkiewicz, George...... 24 Qian, Shangwu...... 32 Woolfson, Michael Mark...... 7 Datta, Somnath...... 8 Jiang, Xiaoyuan...... 5 Rabinovici, Eliezer...... 9 Wright, Aaron Sidney...... 12 Dattoli, Giuseppe...... 14 Jin, Li...... 19 Rausch De Traubenberg, Michel.... 30 Xiao, Dingquan...... 17 D’auria, Riccardo...... 30 Jurgaitis, Donatas...... 26 Razavy, Mohsen...... 13 Xiao, Yun-feng...... 31 Davis, Basil S...... 33 Kadyrov, Alisher...... 10 Recami, Erasmo...... 25 Xu, Pengbo...... 35 De Fontaine, Didier...... 36 Kaiser, David...... 12 Reimanis, Ivar E...... 19 Yang, Lan...... 31 De Luca, Roberto...... 18 Kalmykov, Yuri P...... 35 Reynolds, Robert C...... 7 Ye, Minghan...... 29 Delbourgo, Robert...... 14 Karim, Alamgir...... 19 Riseborough, Peter S...... 34 Yuan, Changzheng...... 29 Deng, Weihua...... 35 Kerner, Richard...... 23 Robson, Brian A...... 12 Zhang, Han...... 18 Depambour, Gautier...... 24 Kibble, Tom...... 11 Rodriguez, Efrain...... 17 Zhelyazkov, Ivan...... 5 Derbes, David...... 31 Kim, Jihn E...... 6, 23 Roper, D Keith...... 19 Zhou, Shengqiang...... 17 Detar, Carleton...... 28 Kim, Jin-woo...... 19 Rossini, Davide...... 33 Zhu, Jianguo...... 17 Diep, Hung-the...... 18 Kjelstrup, Signe...... 34 Rothe, Klaus D...... 29 Zhu, Jiliang...... 17 Dittrich, Thomas...... 19 Kolobov, Alexander V...... 19 Rowell, Gavin...... 5 Zou, Chang-ling...... 31 Docktor, Jennifer...... 20 Kolomietz, Vladimir M...... 26 Rubakov, Valery A...... 5, 13 Zou, Shichang...... 22 Engdahl, Goran...... 4 Kornyshev, Alexei A...... 20 Sabia, Elio...... 14 Zuckerman, Benjamin M...... 23 Englert, Berthold-georg...... 35 Kosso, Peter...... 24 Sadovskii, Michael V...... 19 Zvonkina, Irina...... 19 Ercolessi, Elisa...... 33 Koyama, Kazuya...... 9 Saigo, Hayato...... 15 Mitra, Madhuchanda...... 16 Faiman, David...... 4 Krausz, Ferenc...... 31 Sanchez-ron, Jose M...... 8 Popolo, Antonino Del...... 5 PHYSICS JOURNALS

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