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

The investigation of the properties of condensed matter using experimental nuclear methods is becoming increasingly important. An extremely broad range of techniques is used, including the use of particles, such as positrons and neutrons, ion beams, and the detection of radiation from nuclear decays or nuclear reactions. Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics: Nuclear Methods and Applications is the only book to provide a comprehensive coverage of the nuclear methods used to study the properties of condensed matter. It covers all the key techniques, including the Mossbauer effect, perturbed angular correlation, muon spin rotation, neutron scattering, positron annihilation, nuclear magnetic resonance and ion beam analysis. Numerous examples are given throughout the text to illustrate how each of the experimental methods is used in modern condensed matter physics, and practical details concerning instrumentation are included to help the reader apply each method. Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics: Nuclear Methods and Applications is an invaluable textbook for graduate students of condensed matter physics and chemistry, and is of great interest to those studying materials science and applied nuclear physics. It is also a key reference source for more experienced researchers in these and related fields, including nuclear and condensed matter physicists and solid state and inorganic chemists.

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Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Workshop held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in June 1992. Papers are divided into a broad range of topics: solid state physics, superconductivity, quantum fluids, nuclear physics, atoms and molecules, classical fluids, polymers, plasmas, lattice theories, phase transitions, cellular automata, and fundamental quantum mechanics. Participants discussed density function theory, dynamics of metal films, coulomb coupling, nucleonic superfluids, time-dependent n-level systems, fluids of hard convex molecules, and line tension at wetting and pre-wetting transitions.

Condensed matter is one of the most active fields of physics, with a stream of discoveries in areas from superfluidity and magnetism to the optical, electronic and mechanical properties of materials such as semiconductors, polymers and carbon nanotubes. It includes the study of well-characterised solid surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures as well as studies of molecular liquids (molten salts, ionic solutions, liquid metals and semiconductors) and soft matter systems (colloidal suspensions, polymers, surfactants, foams, liquid crystals, membranes, biomolecules etc) including glasses and biological aspects of soft matter. This book presents state-of-the-art research in this exciting field.

Proceedings of the Niels Bohr Centennial Symposium, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held in Boston, MA, Nov. 1985. Nineteen contributions on the philosophical issues associated with quantum theory and the qualities of a unique scientist. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR