Read article 'Path Integrals for Pedestrians'
Path Integrals for Pedestrians
This short book provides a clear, pedagogical and insightful presentation of the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.
Read article 'Path Integrals for Pedestrians'
Read article 'Ghosts in the machine'
Ghosts in the machine
In July 1956, in a brief paper published in Science, a small team based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US presented results from an experiment at a new, powerful fission reactor at the S...
Read article 'Japan eyes up its future'
Japan eyes up its future
Japan has been a leader in the global neutrino community since the 1980s, breaking ground (both literally and figuratively) with multiple generations of massive underground experiments. These e...
Read article 'A portal to new physics'
A portal to new physics
The 1998 discovery that neutrinos can oscillate between different flavours, by the Super-Kamiokande experiment in Japan and subsequently by the SNO experiment in Canada, marked a turning point ...
Read article 'The Unknown as an Engine for Science: An Essay on the Definite and the Indefinite'
The Unknown as an Engine for Science: An Essay on the Definite and the Indefinite
This essay is the result of interdisciplinary research pursued by the author, a theoretical physicist, on the concept of the indefinite and its expression in different fields of human knowledge.
Read article 'Goethe’s ‘Exposure of Newton’s Theory’: A Polemic On Newton’s Theory of Light and Colour'
Goethe’s ‘Exposure of Newton’s Theory’: A Polemic On Newton’s Theory of Light and Colour
The book provides an English translation of Goethe’s polemic, completed by an introduction in which a possible justification of this resistance by Goethe to Newton’s theory is given.
Read article 'Superconductivity: A New Approach Based on the Bethe–Salpeter Equation in the Mean-Field Approximation'
Superconductivity: A New Approach Based on the Bethe–Salpeter Equation in the Mean-Field Approximation
This specialist book on superconductivity proposes an approach to the topic, based on the Bethe–Salpeter equations, that allows a description of the characteristics of superconductors (SCs) that are...
Read article 'Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection (4th edition)'
Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection (4th edition)
Based on a series of lectures given to undergraduate and graduate students over several years, this book provides a comprehensive and clear presentation of the physics principles that underlie radiati...
Read article 'Physics and Mathematical Tools: Methods and Examples'
Physics and Mathematical Tools: Methods and Examples
This volume presents a set of useful mathematical methods and tools that can be used by physicists and engineers for a wide range of applications.
Read article 'Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasmas'
Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasmas
Robert Bingham reviews in 2016 Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasmas.
