Books in the Partially Ordered Systems series

The study of "soft matter" materials with complex properties has raised a number of interesting problems in basic physics, biology, and materials science, all of which promise new and important technological applications.

This is particularly true of media, such as crystals and liquid crystals, that have a periodic structure. After two chapters dealing with exact and approximate solutions to the scattering problem in periodic media in general, the author discusses: the diffraction of Moessbauer radiation in magnetically ordered crystals;

The usefulness of the book to the reader is exposure to many different classes of materials and relaxation phenomena. The readers can apply what they learn to solve their own problems and use it as a stepping-stone to make further advances in theoretical understanding of the origin of the universality.