Books in the Graduate Texts in Physics series

This book presents the basics of quantum information, e.g., foundation of quantum theory, quantum algorithms, quantum entanglement, quantum entropies, quantum coding, quantum error correction and quantum cryptography. As important quantum protocols, this book contains quantum teleportation, quantum dense coding, quantum data compression.

Particles and Nuclei

This textbook sets out to enable readers to understand fundamental aspects underlying quantum macroscopic phenomena in solids, primarily through the modern experimental techniques and results. Problem sets involve experimental approaches and tools which support a practical understanding of the materials and their behaviour.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to general relativity, with a development of its foundations and a rich body of applications. It is a completely revised and expanded version of the classic edition General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics.

This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics. Because of their importance in modern information technology and nanostructure research, particular emphasis is paid to electronic surface and interface states, semiconductor space charge layers and heterostructures.

This well-illustrated book presents many applications of special relativity, from particle physics to astrophysics, to Sagnac gyrometers and GPS, as well as mathematical developments such as the detailed analysis of the Lorentz group and its Lie algebra.

Updated and revised, this second edition provides a coherent presentation of the basic physics behind lasers, along with some of their most important applications. Numerical examples are scattered throughout the book, and problems are included at the end of each chapter.

This book explains aspects of transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffractometry that are important for characterization of materials. The 4th edition adds new techniques such as electron tomography, nanobeam diffraction and geometric phase analysis.

This account of sources of ionizing radiation and methods of radiation protection describes units of radiation protection, measurement techniques, biological effects, environmental radiation and many applications. Each chapter contains problems with solutions.

This concise guide to a vast field punches above its weight with its streamlined presentation of the full spectrum of subfields such as elasticity, rheology and thermoelectricity alongside core coverage of the governing principles of continuum physics.

It covers the heating of matter to super-high temperatures and pressures, novel schemes of fast particle acceleration, matter far from thermal equilibrium, stimulated radiation scattering, relativistic optics, strong field QED, as well as relevant applications, such as extreme states of matter, controlled fusion, and novel radiation sources.

This book covers equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena. It includes worked examples, problems and exercises.

This review of classical field theory describes Maxwell's equations in their integral, directly testable form, and moves on to their local formulation. Includes detailed figures, worked examples, problems and solutions, highlighted special topics and more.

With an emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, this volume introduces lasers and quantum optics. It focuses on the structure of molecules and their spectroscopy as well as on collision physics as the continuum counterpart to bound molecular states.

This volume provides canonical knowledge in atomic physics together with the basics of modern spectroscopy. Starting from the fundamentals of quantum physics, it teaches readers the most important phenomena, models and measuring techniques.

Statistical methodology is a key element in physics research. Here, expert contributors cover the latest techniques as well as providing a thorough introduction to the field in general. The volume includes cutting-edge topics such as filters and wavelets.

Starting from basic principles, the book covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from Heisenberg, Schroedinger, second quantization, density matrix and path integral formulations of quantum mechanics, to applications that are (or will be) corner stones of present and future technologies.

This book covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, the principles of canonical mechanics and rigid body mechanics to relativistic mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. This updated edition includes more explanations and examples.

This comprehensive and yet approachable textbook emphasizes a few fundamental principles and extracts from them a wealth of information. This approach enables the authors to unify an enormous and diverse subject which might at first appear too disjointed.

This book is intended to help advanced undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students in their daily work by öering them a compendium of numerical methods. The choice of methods pays signi¿cant attention to error estimates, stability and convergence issues, as well as optimization of program execution speeds. Numerous examples are given throughout the chapters, followed by comprehensive end-of-chapter problems with a more pronounced physics background, while less stress is given to the explanation of individual algorithms. The readers are encouraged to develop a certain amount of skepticism and scrutiny instead of blindly following readily available commercial tools. The second edition has been enriched by a chapter on inverse problems dealing with the solution of integral equations, inverse Sturm-Liouville problems, as well as retrospective and recovery problems for partial di¿erential equations. The revised text now includes an introduction to sparse matrix methods, the solution of matrix equations, and pseudospectra of matrices; it discusses the sparse Fourier, non-uniform Fourier and discrete wavelet transformations, the basics of non-linear regression and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; it demonstrates the key concepts in solving sti¿ di¿erential equations and the asymptotics of Sturm-Liouville eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Among other updates, it also presents the techniques of state-space reconstruction, methods to calculate the matrix exponential, generate random permutations and compute stable derivatives.

The enlarged new edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic processes in plasmas and demonstrates that the same fundamental concepts describe cold gas-discharge plasmas, space plasmas, and hot fusion plasmas.

This textbook presents a concise yet detailed introduction to quantum physics. It will attract graduate students and professionals in particular who wish to systematize or refresh their knowledge of quantum physics when studying specialized texts on solid state and materials physics, advanced optics, and other modern fields.

In the chapter on laser-driven molecules a discussion of 2D infrared spectroscopy is incorporated. Theoretical investigations of atoms and molecules interacting with pulsed lasers up to atomic field strengths on the order of 10^16 W/cm(2) are leading to an understanding of many challenging experimental discoveries.

This book offers a general description of the laser, theoretical and operational details of gas, solid state, free-electron and semiconductor lasers. Includes a uniform treatment of gas and solid-state lasers on one hand, and semiconductor lasers on the other.