Condensed Matter And Materials Physics

Author : Board on Physics and Astronomy,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309665407

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Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics by Board on Physics and Astronomy,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences Pdf

As part of the 2010 physics decadal survey project, DOE and NSF requested the NRC to assess opportunities, over roughly the next decade, in condensed matter and materials physics (CMMP). The study is to review recent accomplishments and new opportunities; identify potential future impact of CMMP; consider its contributions to national needs; assessing priorities for tools and facilities; analyze current research and funding; and make recommendations for realizing the full benefit of CMMP. This interim report provides a summary of the early assessment of eight important challenges facing CMMP research in the coming decade and a brief review of the international situation. The final report will present a detailed discussion of these challenges including recommendations for addressing them.

Author : Prasanta Misra
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780123849557

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Physics of Condensed Matter by Prasanta Misra Pdf

Physics of Condensed Matter is designed for a two-semester graduate course on condensed matter physics for students in physics and materials science. While the book offers fundamental ideas and topic areas of condensed matter physics, it also includes many recent topics of interest on which graduate students may choose to do further research. The text can also be used as a one-semester course for advanced undergraduate majors in physics, materials science, solid state chemistry, and electrical engineering, because it offers a breadth of topics applicable to these majors. The book begins with a clear, coherent picture of simple models of solids and properties and progresses to more advanced properties and topics later in the book. It offers a comprehensive account of the modern topics in condensed matter physics by including introductory accounts of the areas of research in which intense research is underway. The book assumes a working knowledge of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, electricity and magnetism and Green's function formalism (for the second-semester curriculum). Covers many advanced topics and recent developments in condensed matter physics which are not included in other texts and are hot areas: Spintronics, Heavy fermions, Metallic nanoclusters, Zno, Graphene and graphene-based electronic, Quantum hall effect, High temperature superdonductivity, Nanotechnology Offers a diverse number of Experimental techniques clearly simplified Features end of chapter problems

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309063494

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Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics Pdf

This book identifies opportunities, priorities, and challenges for the field of condensed-matter and materials physics. It highlights exciting recent scientific and technological developments and their societal impact and identifies outstanding questions for future research. Topics range from the science of modern technology to new materials and structures, novel quantum phenomena, nonequilibrium physics, soft condensed matter, and new experimental and computational tools. The book also addresses structural challenges for the field, including nurturing its intellectual vitality, maintaining a healthy mixture of large and small research facilities, improving the field's integration with other disciplines, and developing new ways for scientists in academia, government laboratories, and industry to work together. It will be of interest to scientists, educators, students, and policymakers.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Solid State Sciences Committee,Committee on CMMP 2010
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309109697

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Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Solid State Sciences Committee,Committee on CMMP 2010 Pdf

The development of transistors, the integrated circuit, liquid-crystal displays, and even DVD players can be traced back to fundamental research pioneered in the field of condensed-matter and materials physics (CMPP). The United States has been a leader in the field, but that status is now in jeopardy. Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics, part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, assesses the present state of the field in the United States, examines possible directions for the 21st century, offers a set of scientific challenges for American researchers to tackle, and makes recommendations for effective spending of federal funds. This book maintains that the field of CMPP is certain to be principle to both scientific and economic advances over the next decade and the lack of an achievable plan would leave the United States behind. This book's discussion of the intellectual and technological challenges of the coming decade centers around six grand challenges concerning energy demand, the physics of life, information technology, nanotechnology, complex phenomena, and behavior far from equilibrium. Policy makers, university administrators, industry research and development executives dependent upon developments in CMPP, and scientists working in the field will find this book of interest.

Author : David L. Sidebottom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139510707

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Fundamentals of Condensed Matter and Crystalline Physics by David L. Sidebottom Pdf

This undergraduate textbook merges traditional solid state physics with contemporary condensed matter physics, providing an up-to-date introduction to the major concepts that form the foundations of condensed materials. The main foundational principles are emphasized, providing students with the knowledge beginners in the field should understand. The book is structured in four parts and allows students to appreciate how the concepts in this broad area build upon each other to produce a cohesive whole as they work through the chapters. Illustrations work closely with the text to convey concepts and ideas visually, enhancing student understanding of difficult material, and end-of-chapter exercises varying in difficulty allow students to put into practice the theory they have covered in each chapter and reinforce new concepts.

Author : Michael P. Marder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470949948

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Condensed Matter Physics by Michael P. Marder Pdf

Now updated—the leading single-volume introduction to solid state and soft condensed matter physics This Second Edition of the unified treatment of condensed matter physics keeps the best of the first, providing a basic foundation in the subject while addressing many recent discoveries. Comprehensive and authoritative, it consolidates the critical advances of the past fifty years, bringing together an exciting collection of new and classic topics, dozens of new figures, and new experimental data. This updated edition offers a thorough treatment of such basic topics as band theory, transport theory, and semiconductor physics, as well as more modern areas such as quasicrystals, dynamics of phase separation, granular materials, quantum dots, Berry phases, the quantum Hall effect, and Luttinger liquids. In addition to careful study of electron dynamics, electronics, and superconductivity, there is much material drawn from soft matter physics, including liquid crystals, polymers, and fluid dynamics. Provides frequent comparison of theory and experiment, both when they agree and when problems are still unsolved Incorporates many new images from experiments Provides end-of-chapter problems including computational exercises Includes more than fifty data tables and a detailed forty-page index Offers a solutions manual for instructors Featuring 370 figures and more than 1,000 recent and historically significant references, this volume serves as a valuable resource for graduate and undergraduate students in physics, physics professionals, engineers, applied mathematicians, materials scientists, and researchers in other fields who want to learn about the quantum and atomic underpinnings of materials science from a modern point of view.

Author : Werner Martienssen,Hans Warlimont
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1143 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540304371

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Springer Handbook of Condensed Matter and Materials Data by Werner Martienssen,Hans Warlimont Pdf

Springer Handbook of Condensed Matter and Materials Data provides a concise compilation of data and functional relationships from the fields of solid-state physics and materials in this 1200 page volume. The data, encapsulated in 914 tables and 1025 illustrations, have been selected and extracted primarily from the extensive high-quality data collection Landolt-Börnstein and also from other systematic data sources and recent publications of physical and technical property data. Many chapters are authored by Landolt-Börnstein editors, including the prominent Springer Handbook editors, W. Martienssen and H. Warlimont themselves. The Handbook is designed to be useful as a desktop reference for fast and easy retrieval of essential and reliable data in the lab or office. References to more extensive data sources are also provided in the book and by interlinking to the relevant sources on the enclosed CD-ROM. Physicists, chemists and engineers engaged in fields of solid-state sciences and materials technologies in research, development and application will appreciate the ready access to the key information coherently organized within this wide-ranging Handbook. From the reviews: "...this is the most complete compilation I have ever seen... When I received the book, I immediately searched for data I never found elsewhere..., and I found them rapidly... No doubt that this book will soon be in every library and on the desk of most solid state scientists and engineers. It will never be at rest." -Physicalia Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500409813

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Condensed Matter and Materials Physics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jagannathan Thirumalai,Sergey Ivanovich Pokutnyi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781838805548

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Advances in Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics by Jagannathan Thirumalai,Sergey Ivanovich Pokutnyi Pdf

This book, Condensed Matter and Material Physics, incorporates the work of multiple authors to enhance the theoretical as well as experimental knowledge of materials. The investigation of crystalline solids is a growing need in the electronics industry. Micro and nano transistors require an in-depth understanding of semiconductors of different groups. Amorphous materials, on the other hand, as non-equilibrium materials are widely applied in sensors and other medical and industrial applications. Superconducting magnets, composite materials, lasers, and many more applications are integral parts of our daily lives. Superfluids, liquid crystals, and polymers are undergoing active research throughout the world. Hence profound information on the nature and application of various materials is in demand. This book bestows on the reader a deep knowledge of physics behind the concepts, perspectives, characteristic properties, and prospects. The book was constructed using 10 contributions from experts in diversified fields of condensed matter and material physics and its technology from over 15 research institutes across the globe.

Author : P. M. Chaikin,T. C. Lubensky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139643054

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Principles of Condensed Matter Physics by P. M. Chaikin,T. C. Lubensky Pdf

Now in paperback, this book provides an overview of the physics of condensed matter systems. Assuming a familiarity with the basics of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the book establishes a general framework for describing condensed phases of matter, based on symmetries and conservation laws. It explores the role of spatial dimensionality and microscopic interactions in determining the nature of phase transitions, as well as discussing the structure and properties of materials with different symmetries. Particular attention is given to critical phenomena and renormalization group methods. The properties of liquids, liquid crystals, quasicrystals, crystalline solids, magnetically ordered systems and amorphous solids are investigated in terms of their symmetry, generalised rigidity, hydrodynamics and topological defect structure. In addition to serving as a course text, this book is an essential reference for students and researchers in physics, applied physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering, who are interested in modern condensed matter physics.

Author : Alberto Fernandez-Nieves,Antonio Manuel Puertas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118065624

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Fluids, Colloids and Soft Materials by Alberto Fernandez-Nieves,Antonio Manuel Puertas Pdf

This book presents a compilation of self-contained chapters covering a wide range of topics within the broad field of soft condensed matter. Each chapter starts with basic definitions to bring the reader up-to-date on the topic at hand, describing how to use fluid flows to generate soft materials of high value either for applications or for basic research. Coverage includes topics related to colloidal suspensions and soft materials and how they differ in behavior, along with a roadmap for researchers on how to use soft materials to study relevant physics questions related to geometrical frustration.

Author : Steven M. Girvin,Kun Yang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107137394

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Modern Condensed Matter Physics by Steven M. Girvin,Kun Yang Pdf

Comprehensive and accessible coverage from the basics to advanced topics in modern quantum condensed matter physics.

Author : Prafulla K. Jha,Arun Pratap,Ashvin R. Jani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Condensed matter
ISBN : 3037856254

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Condensed Matter and Materials Physics by Prafulla K. Jha,Arun Pratap,Ashvin R. Jani Pdf

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).This collection highlights the frontiers of current research in condensed matter and materials physics. Emphasis is placed upon the presentation of current status of the condensed matter and materials physics that could facilitate decisions and future directions of research. The book comprises 56 peer-reviewed papers which provide an excellent and up-to-date coverage of the subject.

Author : Kazuya Saito
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811590238

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Chemical Physics of Molecular Condensed Matter by Kazuya Saito Pdf

This book fills a gap in knowledge between chemistry- and physics-trained researchers about the properties of macroscopic (bulk) material. Although many good textbooks are available on solid-state (or condensed matter) physics, they generally treat simple systems such as simple metals and crystals consisting of atoms. On the other hand, textbooks on solid-state chemistry often avoid descriptions of theoretical background even at the simplest level. This book gives coherent descriptions from intermolecular interaction up to properties of condensed matter ranging from isotropic liquids to molecular crystals. By omitting details of specific systems for which comprehensive monographs are available—on liquid crystals and molecular conductors, for instance—this book highlights the effects of molecular properties, i.e., the presence of the shape and its deformation on the structure and properties of molecular systems.

Author : Klaus R. Mecke,Dietrich Stoyan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540442035

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Morphology of Condensed Matter by Klaus R. Mecke,Dietrich Stoyan Pdf

The morphology of spatially stuctured materials is a rapidly growing field of research at the interface of statistical physics, applied mathematics and materials science. A wide spectrum of applications encompasses the flow through porous and composite materials as well as microemulsions and foams. Written as a set of lectures and tutorial reviews leading up to the forefront of research, this book will be both a compendium for the experienced researcher as well as a high level introductory text for postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers working in related areas.