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Path Integrals for Pedestrians

This short book provides a clear, pedagogical and insightful presentation of the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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...