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

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

A Primer for Chiral Perturbation Theory

Stefan Scherer, Matthias R Schindler

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 830
• Chiral Perturbation Theory, as effective field theory, is a commonly accepted and well established working tool, approximating quantum chromodynamics ... Lees meer

Introduction to Relativistic Continuum Mechanics

Giorgio Ferrarese, Donato Bini

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 727
• Classical Physics: Axiomatic Formulation.- Space-Time Geometry and Relativistic Kinematics.- Test Particle Dynamics.- Applications.- Relativistic Kine... Lees meer

Transport and Structure

• Paperback | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 532
• Local and global spatial coupling mechanisms form the basis of transport processes that are of fundamental importance for the occurrence and the dynam... Lees meer

Methods of Quantization

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 572
• The present set of lecture notes gives both a status report and a survey of recent advances for the most important quantization methods in the field t... Lees meer

The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams, Vol. II

• Hardcover | Engels | Lecture Notes in Physics | nr. 700
• This is the second volume in a series of lecture notes based on the highly s- cessful Euro Summer School on Exotic Beams that has been running yearly ... Lees meer

Aspects of Physical Biology

• Paperback | 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