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Dynamics of Heavy Electrons

In this context "heavy electrons" means electrons in rare-earth and actinide metals that acquire very large effective masses owing to strong local correlations.

Introductory Statistical Mechanics

This text offers an introduction to the theory of condensed matter and first appeared in 1996.

Dynamics and Relativity

This a comprehensive textbook sets out to introduce special relativity to mathematicians, mathematical physicists and physicists in a natural way and avoid all "gee-whizz".

Defect and Microstructure Analysis by Diffraction

In the International Union of Crystallography series of monographs, this comprehensive compilation of 31 chapters from different authors looks at the latest developments in X-ray diffraction techniq...

Particle Astrophysics

This is a revised and updated edition, in paperback, of a book that, when it first appeared a few years ago (Bookshelf, Summer 1998), merited the comment "more than just a graduate level textbook......

Quantum Processes in Semiconductors

First published in 1982, this work provides a useful overview of semiconductor physics without indulging in extraneous solid state matters.

The Physics of Foams

This book is also a lively performance - its authors, from Dublin's Trinity College, evidently have a knowledge for thirst!

Bogolyubov conference caravan takes in Moscow, Dubna and Kiev

Last year the 90th anniversary of the birth of Russian scientific polymath Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov was marked by an international conference, which travelled through the three cities where he...

The Delphic Oracleand antimatter

This winter, CERN's LEP pit formed the backdrop for an unusual theatrical performance portraying Paul Dirac's mathematical discovery of antimatter symmetry.