Complex Networks

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 650
• This volume is devoted to the applications of techniques from statistical physics to the characterization and modeling of complex networks. The first ... Lees meer

Astrotomography

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 573
• TheideaforthisbookoriginatedintheLaSillaobservatorywheretwoofthe editorsweredoingphase-resolvedspectroscopyofsomecataclysmicvariable starsusingtheNTT.... Lees meer

A First Course in Topos Quantum Theory

Cecilia Flori

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 868
• In the last five decades various attempts to formulate theories of quantum gravity have been made, but none has fully succeeded in becoming the quantu... Lees meer

Introduction to the Functional Renormalization Group

Peter Kopietz, Lorenz Bartosch, Florian Schütz

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 798
• The renormalization group (RG) has nowadays achieved the status of a meta-theory, which is a theory about theories. The theory of the RG consists of a... Lees meer

An Introduction to Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetries for Particle Physicists

Tatsuo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Ohki, Hiroshi Okada, Yusuke Shimizu, Morimitsu Tanimoto

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 995
• This lecture note provides a tutorial review of non-Abelian discrete groups and presents applications to particle physics where discrete symmetries co... Lees meer

Jamming, Yielding, and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 688
• This volume gathers a number of selected contributions from the XIX Sitges Conference on "Jamming, Yielding, and Irreversible Deformation in C- densed... Lees meer

Renormalization of Quantum Field Theories with Non-Linear Field Transformations

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 303
• The characteristic feature of many models for field theories based on concepts of differential geometry is their nonlinearity. In this book a systemat... Lees meer

Turbulence Modeling and Vortex Dynamics

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 491
• This volume collects contributions to the workshop on "Turbulence Modeling and Vortex Dynamics, Istanbul", where engineers, physicists, and mathematic... Lees meer

Galactic Dynamics and N-Body Simulations

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 433
• This book provides an in-depth coverage of modern research on dynamical systems. The first part discusses stellar dynamics, integrable systems, the tr... Lees meer

Statistical Physics and Spatial Statistics

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 554
• Modern physics is confronted with a large variety of complex spatial patterns. Although both spatial statisticians and statistical physicists study ra... Lees meer

Computational Materials Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 642
• Computational Physics is now a discipline in its own right, comparable with theoretical and experimental physics. Computational Materials Science conc... Lees meer

Singularities in Gravitational Systems

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 590
• Chaos theory plays an important role in modern physics and related sciences, but the most important results so far have been obtained in the study of ... Lees meer

Jets from Young Stars IV

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 793
• Astronomical jets are key astrophysical phenomena observed in gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei or young stars. Research on them has largely oc... Lees meer

Quantum Plasmadynamics

Donald Melrose

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 735
• The idea of synthesizing quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the kinetic theory of plasmas ?rst occurred to me in the early 1970s [1, 2]. The project to... Lees meer

Canonical Gravity: From Classical to Quantum

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 434
• These lectures are meant as an introduction to an area of quantum gravity which is still close to the original ideas of classical relativity and which... Lees meer

A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 503
• Concepts of nonlinear physics are applied to an increasing number of research disciplines. With this volume, the editors offer a selection of articles... Lees meer

Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 375
• The book describes the close relationship between physics and geometry as it is understood nowadays. The reader will find inportant contributions to n... Lees meer

Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories

Stuart Raby

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 939
• These course-tested lectures provide a technical introduction to Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories (SUSY GUTs), as well as a personal view on the ... Lees meer

Aspects of Physical Biology

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 752
• The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to... Lees meer

Integrable Hamiltonian Hierarchies

Vladimir Gerdjikov, Gaetano Vilasi, Alexandar Borisov Yanovski

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 748
• In the past decades now a famous class of evolution equations has been discovered and intensively studied, a class including the nowadays celebrated K... Lees meer

Lattice Hadron Physics

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 663
• Lattice Hadron Physics draws upon the developments made in recent years in implementing chirality on the lattice via the overlap formalism. These deve... Lees meer

The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 785
• The aim of this book is to offer to the next generation of young researchers a broad and largely self-contained introduction to the physics of heavy i... Lees meer

Transport Processes in Space Physics and Astrophysics

Alexander Dosch, Gary P Zank

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 918
• This is the problems and solution manual for the graduate text with the same title and published as Lecture Notes in Physics Vol 877 which provides th... Lees meer

Quantum Trajectories and Measurements in Continuous Time

Alberto Barchielli, Matteo Gregoratti

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 782
• Quantum trajectory theory is largely employed in theoretical quantum optics and quantum open system theory and is closely related to the conceptual fo... Lees meer