"Version: 20170301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : dark matter--what we do and do not know -- 1.1. Observational evidence for dark matter -- 1.2. Explanations for dark matter -- 1.3. Sterile neutrinos as dark matter2. Sterile neutrinos--almost part of the Standa…
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Direct space -- 1.1. What are crystals? -- 1.2. Miller indices -- 1.3. Point symmetry -- 1.4. Point groups -- 1.5. Translational symmetry -- 1.6. Crystal structures -- 1.7. Space groups2. The reciprocal lattice -- 2.1. Definition -- 2.2.…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Wave scattering by many small impedance particles -- 2.1. Scalar wave scattering by one small body of an arbitrary shape -- 2.2. Scalar wave scattering by many small bodies of an arbitrary shape3. Creating materials wi…
"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why are surfaces important? -- 1.2. Ultra-high vacuum science and technology -- 1.3. Exercises2. Thermodynamics of surfaces : equilibrium crystal shape -- 2.1. Surface thermodynamic functions -- 2.2. Surface tension …
"Version: 20190301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Path integral approach -- 1.1. Path integral -- 1.2. Spin -- 1.3. Path integral and statistical mechanics -- 1.4. Fermion path integral2. Topology and vector spaces -- 2.1. Topological spaces -- 2.2. Group theory -- 2.3. Cocycle -- 2.4. …
Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Gauge theories -- Gauge gravity dualityQuantum phase transitions -- Quantum Ising model -- XY model -- Other modelsGravitation -- Basics of general relativity -- Anti-de Sitter spaceAdS/CFT correspondence -- Formalism -- Scalar fields -- Finite temperature -- Finite chemical potentialDynamics -- Linear response t…
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Bibliography -- Elements of many-particle physics -- Green's functions in condensed matter physics -- Formal properties of Green's functions -- Perturbation theory and Feynman diagramsDielectric theory of the solid -- Electromagnetic fields in solids -- Dielectric properties of ionic crystals -- Dielectric response of the free electron gasTran…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Potentials in multilayer planar systems -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Equations of the spatial distribution of potentials in planar multilayer systems -- 1.3. Modulation transmission matrix -- 1.4. Modulation transmission matrix for three-layer and five-layer systems -- 1.5. Modulation transmission matrix for periodic s…
"Version: 20250401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.part I. Basic concepts. 1. From Brownian motion to the Langevin equation -- 1.1. From the surprising behaviour of pollen grains to the existence of atoms -- 1.2. Toward a mathematical theory -- 1.3. Again about the Langevin equation -- 1.4. Further remarks2. The Boltzmann equation -- 2.1. Boltzmann equation in a…
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Overview of thermodynamics -- 1.1. Basic concepts and terminology -- 1.2. The laws of thermodynamics -- 1.3. Fundamental equations -- 1.4. Thermal, mechanical, and chemical equilibria -- 1.5. Phase equilibria -- 1.6. Summary2. Brownian m…