Bücher der Reihe International Series of Monographs on Physics

Serves as a textbook for first-year graduate and advanced undergraduate students in both physics and engineering. This book explains the theoretical principles on which the work is based for practising engineers and experimental physicists who work in the field of magnetism.

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of relativity are at the centre of modern theoretical physics, yet, the consistent unification of both theories is still elusive. This book offers an up-to-date introduction into the attempts to construct a unified theory of "quantum gravity".

The book provides a detailed and uniform treatment of the science and technology of light absorbing organic materials (used in nano-scale optical devices, LEDs, solar cells, flat screens, cell phones etc), which are increasingly investigated for use in mass market products.

This book provides beginning researchers with a self-contained introduction to the subject of CP violation, starting at an elementary level and taking the reader to the forefront of current research.

An invaluable, up-to-date reference aid for investigators and researchers, this two-volume work develops the principles and concepts of statistical physics and quantum chemistry that are the basis for the interpretation of experimental data.

An anomaly is the failure of a classical symmetry to survive the process of quantization and regularization. The study of anomalies plays an important role in quantum field theory. This text presents the different aspects of the study of anomalies and includes chapters on abelian and nonabelian anomalies, and consistent and covariant anomalies.

This is a classic text of its time in condensed matter physics.

Presents an application of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to the field of magnetism. This book contains the microscopic theory of many electron systems, which provide the physical understanding of magnetism. It shows how to solve the equations numerically and how to apply them to practical problems arising in mechanical engineering.

Talking about liquid crystals, polymers, rubber, and elasticity, this book reviews experimental techniques and results, and describes theoretical ideas, illustrating them by solved examples and nearly 200 figures. It is aimed at physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate student level.

With a primary focus on experiments, the authors include an extensive theoretical introduction to the field, as well as many exercises with solutions explained in detail.

Spin glasses are magnetic materials. Statistical mechanics, a subfield of physics, has been a powerful tool to theoretically analyse various unique properties of spin glasses. This book provides the reader with a sound introduction to the field and to the analytical techniques necessary to follow its developments.

Basic to the entire theory and applications of black hole physics, this book covers the topics needed to understand the key issues in gravitation theory: cosmology and black holes. The topics included are the structure and topology of space-time, exact solutions and singularities, quantum effects in strong gravity fields, and more.

Quantum field theory is an area of wide and growing interest to students and researchers of both mathematics and physics. This is an authoritative and self- contained introduction to the subject, which uses the mathematical theory of operator algebras to present the theory.

This book is a textbook for graduate students and researchers who are interested in ferromagnetism. The emphasis is primarily on explanation of physical concepts rather than on a rigorous theoretical treatment.