"Version: 20250401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Relativistic quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The rotation groups SO(3) and SO(n) -- 1.2. Special relativity -- 1.3. Klein-Gordon equation -- 1.4. Dirac equation -- 1.5. Free solutions of the Dirac equation -- 1.6. Lorentz covariance : first look -- 1.7. Representations of the Lorentz group -- 1.8. Exercises -- 1.9. Solutions…
"Version: 20151101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biography -- 1. The scientific method -- 1.1. Introduction to the scientific method -- 1.2. Some mathematics2. Early astronomy -- 3. Nebulae4. Cosmic distances -- 4.1. The cosmic distance ladder -- 4.2.…
"Version: 20250601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.12. The Wilson and functional renormalization group equations -- 12.1. Wilson renormalization group approach -- 12.2. The Wilson approximate recursion formulas -- 12.3. Generating functionals -- 12.4. The functional renormalization group -- 12.5. The vertex expansion approximation method for 04 -- 12.6. The gradient expan…
"Version: 20151101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Observational background -- 1.1. Distances -- 1.2. Stellar brightness and luminosity -- 1.3. Colors -- 1.4. Spectroscopy -- 1.5. Color-magnitude diagrams -- 1.6. Stellar masses -- 1.7. The mass-luminosity relation for main seq…
"Version: 20230901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.8. Boosting biomedical research with the integration of blockchain and AI -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Advancements in artificial intelligence -- 8.3. A system of large-scale storage distance -- 8.4. Data privacy and regulatory barriers : their significant concerns -- 8.5. The developments in blockchain -- 8.6. The exonum…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Author biography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A simple model of nonlinear dielectrics3. Basic properties of photonic crystals -- 3.1. Plane wave method -- 3.2. Wannier function method -- 3.3. Computer simulation me…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Vortices in nature -- 1.2. Historical review of optical vortices -- 1.3. Orbital angular momentum of vortex beams2. Generation of optical vortex beams -- 2.1. Typical vortex beams -- 2.2. Methods for vortex generation3. Measuring OAM of vortex beams -- 3.1. Interference or diffraction method -- 3.2…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Sampling -- 1.2. Random-number generators2. The Metropolis algorithm -- 2.1. Importance sampling -- 2.2. Classical liquids -- 2.3. Block algorithms3. Variational Monte Carlo -- 3.1. Variational principle -…
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: Transmission and processing for data center networking.Includes bibliographical references.1. Historical overview and digital transmission technologies in data centre networking -- 1.1. Digital optical communications and transmission systems : historical overview -- 1.2. Digital optical transmission in evolving networking -- 1.3. Photoni…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Units : the essential tools to all understanding -- 1.1. What are units and why are they important? -- 1.2. Unit conversions2. Mechanics of the body -- 2.1. What is mechanics? -- 2.2. Speed, velocity, and acceleration -- 2.3. …