Read article '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'
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)'
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'
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'
Robert Bingham reviews in 2016 Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasmas.
Read article 'Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks: From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN. With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn'
Frithjof Karsch reviews in 2016 Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks: From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN. With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn.
Read article 'The Composite Nambu–Goldstone Higgs'
This book provides a description of a composite Higgs scenario as possible extension of the Standard Model (SM).
Read article 'Chern–Simons (Super) Gravity – 100 Years of General Relativity (vol. 2)'
Written on the basis of a set of lecture notes, this book provides a concise introduction to Chern–Simons (super) gravity theories accessible to graduate students and researchers in physics and math...
Read article 'Wisdom of the Martians of Science: In Their Own Words with Commentaries'
The book comes as a follow-up to a previous title, The Martians of Science, which drew the profiles of these five scientists and presented their contributions to their fields of research. The aim of t...
Read article 'Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics'
This book deals with two major but different fields of condensed-matter physics, semiconductors and superconductors, starting from the consideration that the key particles of these materials, which ar...
