Bücher der Reihe Springer Theses

Using a state-of-the-art global microphysics model, this book examines the impact of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health. It shows that continuously degassing volcanoes exert a major effect on global climate.

This book presents a comprehensive review of the current state of the art in studying flow with anisotropy, mineral physics and geodynamics. It describes several novel methods for the modeling and interpretation of shear wave splitting.

This book outlines the development of a novel technique that stretches a map according to quantitative data, such as population. It proposes a gridded cartogram technique that is a versatile alternative to other conventional map making methods.

This book contributes to the understanding of fundamental issues in colloidal science. The author investigates scaling laws, testing their generality, and thereby explaining and resolving long-standing contradictions in the literature.

This book details a method used to embed nanoparticle arrays into the substrate, which is developed and used to design robust, re-usable biosensor platforms and nanoscale patterns of biomimetic lipid bilayer membranes.

This book details experiments on studying the Brownian motion of an optically trapped microsphere with ultrahigh resolution and the cooling of its motion towards the quantum ground state.

This outstanding thesis makes an invaluable contribution to land surface process modeling n arid and semi-arid zones, using a two-phase heat- and mass-transport model that incorporates the essential but previously neglected effects of vapor convection.

This book explores freeze-thaw effects on the accumulation and release of carbon and nitrogen in wetland soils, as a step toward investigating wetland biogeochemical processes in seasonal freeze-thaw areas. Offers strategies aimed at impacts of global warming.

This book examines the realization of spin-squeezed states suitable for atom interferometry. Recipient of the German Physical Society's 2011 Dissertation.

Exploring averaging dynamics in multiagent networked systems, this book offers an in-depth study of stability and other phenomena characterizing the limiting behavior of both deterministic and random averaging dynamics. Includes numerous illustrative examples.

This remarkable volume showcases the latest advances in a rapidly growing field of research. The author's treatment of ultracold quantum gases of bosonic and fermionic atoms in optical lattices includes new insights into the nature of ultracold quantum matter.

This book shows how a combination of techniques such as a time dependent and finite temperature Density Matrix Renormalization Group technique, can be used to obtain the physical properties of low dimensional quantum magnets with unprecedented accuracy.

Addressing every stage of the laser fabrication process, this thesis demonstrates how key performance characteristics of three discrete types of semiconductor lasers can be customized using clever nanostructure design and epitaxial growth techniques.

This book surveys methods used at the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN to identify and extrapolate charged particle tracks and estimate the originating annihilation location, in its successful effort to achieve stable, long-term storage of atomic antimatter.

This truly groundbreaking thesis integrates nuclear energy density functional theory and the algebraic, interacting boson model. Bridging a longstanding theoretical chasm in physics, it reveals the origins of the latter in nucleon degrees of freedom.

Treating dialogue as a problem of inferring a speaker's intentions based on what is said, this book describes the architecture, the algorithms needed for fast real-time inference over very large networks, model parameter estimation and policy optimisation.

This book reviews environmental issues related to biocomposites, and offers a new modeling method incorporating process-oriented Denitrification-Decomposition into site-specific LCA studies, to simulate carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the wheat agro-ecosystem.

This book develops a novel analysis method for QCD sum rules (QCDSR) by applying the maximum entropy method (MEM) to arrive at an analysis with less artificial assumptions.

For the power allocation and spectrum sharing problem, he developed a game form that possesses the second and third properties as detailed above along with a fourth property: the allocations corresponding to all NE of the game induced by the mechanism are Pareto optimal.

This book deals with Rare Earth Elements, applying basic research data on neodymium used in permanent magnets. Surprisingly, analysis showed that hard drives, mobile phones, wind turbines and e-mobility account for much less use of neodymium than supposed.

This thesis contains results of Dr. Guilong Gui during his PhD period with the aim to understand incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. It is also hopeful that the thesis could serve as a valuable reference on current developments in research topics related to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.

This is the first wide-field photometric and spectroscopic survey of star clusters in the galaxy M33, the nearest example of a dwarf spiral galaxy. Includes data on magnitudes, colors, structural parameters and several preliminary velocity measurements.

This thesis reports on investigations of a specific collective mode of nuclear vibration, the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR), the nuclear "breathing mode", the energy of which is directly related to a fundamental property of nuclei-the nuclear incompressibility.

This Thesis in biological physics has two components, describing the use of X-ray scattering techniques to study the structure of two different stacked lipid membrane systems. The first part focuses on the interaction between a short 11-mer peptide, Tat, which is part of the Tat protein in the HIV-1 virus.

This thesis addresses in a very new and elegant way several measurements and the extraction of so-called double parton scattering. When the density of partons in the protons becomes large, there is a non-negligible probability that more than one parton participates in the interaction and the so-called double parton scattering becomes important.

This thesis analyses how supersymmetric (SUSY) extensions of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics can be constrained using information from Higgs physics, electroweak precision observables and direct searches for new particles.

This thesis casts new light on quantum entanglement of photons with complex spatial patterns due to direct coincidence imaging.

In this book, the author deals mainly with two topics: (1) single-molecule visualization of switching behaviors in the DNA nanoframe system utilizing different kinds of molecular switches through the use of high-speed atomic force microscope (AFM);