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Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy of asteroids, comets and dust in the circumstellar environments in general.

A particularly strong feature of the present work is the constructive-critical approach to the present mainstream theories, the careful assessment of some alternative approaches, and the overall balance between theoretical and observational considerations.

In the context of polymer crystallization there are several still open and often controversially debated questions. The intention is thus not only to provide a summary of the present state-of-the-art to all active works but to provide an entry point to newcomer and graduate students entering the field.

This mathematically-oriented introduction takes the point of view that students should become familiar, at an early stage, with the physics of relativistic continua and thermodynamics within the framework of special relativity.

This concise research monograph introduces and reviews the concept of chiral soliton models for baryons. The many applications shed light on a number of bayron properties, ranging from static properties via nuclear resonances to even heavy ion collisions.

Part textbook, part exploratory work, this book aims to raise the awareness of students, physicists, and engineers in turbulence on the modeling of gravitationally induced turbulent mixing flows as produced, for instance, by Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

"Granular Gases" are diluted many-particle systems in which the mean free path of the particles is much larger than the typical particle size, and where particle collisions occur dissipatively. Part V, finally, deals with possible generalizations for dense granular systems.

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This volume aims to change this situation by presenting in a clear way fundamental concepts of spatial statistics which are of great potential value for condensed matter physics and materials sciences in general, and for porous media, percolation and Gibbs processes in particular.

With the imminent operational start of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), a range of fundamental experiments in nuclear and particle physics will come within reach. This book details the most promising ones.

This is an introduction to classical and quantum mechanics on two-point homogenous Riemannian spaces, empahsizing spaces with constant curvature. Chapter 7 investigates the classical counterpart of the quantum system introduced in Chapter 5.

For most cases of interest, exact solutions to nonlinear equations describing stochastic dynamical systems are not available. This book details the relatively simple and popular linearization techniques available, covering theory as well as application.

The field of quantum plasmas has a long and diverse tradition. This book synthesizes two fields: classical kinetic theory of collisionless plasmas and quantum electrodynamics. The book therefore provides a comprehensive introduction to a more general formalism for plasma kinetic and dispersion theory.

The reviews presented in this volume cover a huge range of cluster of galaxies topics. Readers will find the book essential reading on subjects such as the physics of the ICM gas, the internal cluster dynamics, and the detection of clusters using different observational techniques.

Physicists who wish to understand the modeling of confinement of quantum chromodynamics, as exhibited by dual superconductors, will find this book an excellent introduction. The author focuses on the models themselves, especially the Landau--Ginzburg model of a dual superconductor, also called the Dual Abelian Higgs model.

The new edition of this well received primer on rigorous aspects of symmetry breaking presents a more detailed and thorough discussion of the mechanism of symmetry breaking in classical field theory in relation with the Noether theorem.

This book serves as a tutorial, high-level guided tour through the black hole landscape. Coverage includes information paradox and black hole thermodynamics, numerical simulations of black hole formation, and braneworld scenarios and stability of black holes.

This book presents a consistent formulation for the handling of noncovariant gauges in the quantization and renormalization of gauge theories. It serves as an ideal introduction to postgraduate students, lecturers and researchers in the field.

Written by experts from geophysics, astrophysics and engineering, this unique book on the interdisciplinary aspects of turbulence offers recent advances in the field and covers everything from the very nature of turbulence to some practical applications.

A mathematically consistent formulation of relativistic quantum electrodynamics (QED) has still to be found. Large Coulomb Systems explores a selection of mathematical topics inspired by QED.

This book presents a detailed derivation of the spectral properties of the Recursion Operators allowing one to derive all the fundamental properties of the soliton equations and to study their hierarchies.

This primer introduces classical general relativity with emphasis on the clarity of conceptual structure and on the basic mathematical methods to build up, systematically, application skills. End-of-chapter exercises complete the main text.

This book is a comprehensive survey of most of the theoretical and experimental achievements in the field of quantum estimation of states and operations.

Only satellite-based remote-sensing instruments generate the wealth of global data on the concentrations of atmospheric constituents that are necessary for long-term monitoring of the atmosphere.

Lectures of a Workshop Held in Hamburg, Germany, July 27-28, 1999

This book is devoted to recent developments in the field of rotating fluids, in particular the study of Taylor--Couette flow, spherical Couette flow, planar Couette flow, as well as rotating annulus flow.

Those that are integrable provide various mathematical methods, presented by experts in this tutorial book, to find special analytic solutions to both integrable and partially integrable equations.

The contributions to this volume are based on selected lectures from the first international workshop on decoherence, information, complexity and entropy (DICE).

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 gravitational systems applied to celestial mechanics.

The authors present important aspects of modern research on the mathematical structure of Einstein's field equations and they show how to extract their physical content from them by mathematically exact methods.