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Relativity and Gravitation
Textbook Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Fields (2nd Edition)
by W-Y Pauchy Hwang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) & Ta-You Wu
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“The publication of Professor Wu’s Quantum Mechanics and the present sequel will make it possible for serious science students everywhere to share the insight and the wisdom that were instrumental in launching our careers.” Foreword in the 1st edition by T. D. Lee Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1957 This book follows the generally pedagogic style of quantum mechanics. The scope ranges from relativistic quantum mechanics to an introduction to quantum field theory with quantum electrodynamics as the basic example and ends with an exposition of important issues related to the standard model.
Readership: Undergraduate students and lecturers
978-981-3270-02-2 416pp US$148
Jun 2018 £130
by Jacob Dunningham (University of Sussex, UK), Vlatko Vedral (Oxford)
“The authors have done an exceptional job. It’s probably more accurate to describe this text as an introduction to both non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics ... This book was a lot of fun to read and digest. I definitely recommend it for instructors, but also for students who have already been exposed to quantum mechanics.”
Contemporary Physics
This undergraduate textbook combines quantum physics and relativity at an introductory level. Based on undergraduate courses given at the University of Leeds, this new edition covers all the material required for quantum physics and relativity in the first three years of a traditional physics degree, in addition to more interesting and up-to-date extensions and applications which include quantum field theory, entanglement, and quantum information science.
308pp 978-981-3228-64-1 978-981-3230-04-0(pbk) May 2018 US$98 US$48 £86 £42
Textbook Problems and Solutions in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information (4th Edition)
by Willi-Hans Steeb (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), Yorick Hardy (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Review of the 2nd Edition: “This is a nice collection of standard problems and solutions, the latter being formulated on a level as elementary as possible. So it is especially useful for students who want to become acquainted with quantum information and computation. It is also useful for lecturers when they have to prepare exercises.”
Zentralblatt MATH
This book presents a large collection of problems in quantum computing and quantum information together with their detailed solutions, which will prove to be invaluable to students as well as researchers in these fields.
556pp 978-981-3238-40-4 978-981-3239-28-9(pbk) Apr 2018 US$118 US$58 NOTABLE TITLES FEYNMAN’S THESIS — A NEW APPROACH TO QUANTUM THEORY
EDITED BY BROWN LAURIE M (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789812563668
JOHN S BELL ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
BELL M ET AL (CERN) 9789810246877
QUANTUM ASPECTS OF LIFE
ABBOTT DEREK ET AL (UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA) 9781848162532
CLASSIC TEXTBOOKS QUANTUM COMPUTING FROM THE GROUND UP
PERRY RILEY TIPTON (UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA) 9789814412117(PBK)
QUANTUM MECHANICS: A MODERN DEVELOPMENT (2ND EDITION)
BALLENTINE LESLIE E (SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, CANADA) 9789814578578
LECTURES ON QUANTUM THEORY: MATHEMATICAL AND STRUCTURAL FOUNDATIONS
ISHAM CHRIS J (IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON, UK) 9781860940002
LECTURES ON QUANTUM MECHANICS (IN 3 COMPANION VOLUMES)
ENGLERT BERTHOLD-GEORG (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE) 9789812567901(SET)
ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS (2ND EDITION)
DYSON FREEMAN (IAS, PRINCETON) 9789814383400
AI and Quantum Computing
Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence - Vol 87
Fuzzy Systems to Quantum Mechanics
by Hong Xing Li (Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, China)
978-981-121-118-8 400pp US$148
Oct 2020 £130
Quantum Mechanics and Bayesian Machines
by George Chapline (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
978-981-3232-46-4 100pp US$68
Aug 2020 £60
Principles of Quantum Artificial Intelligence
by Andreas Wichert (Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Einstein’s Relativity in Great Britain
From Eddington to Hawking and Penrose. A Tale of Physicists, Astronomers, Mathematicians and Philosophers by José M Sánchez-Ron (Universidad Autó noma de Madrid, Spain)
The publication of Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity in 1905 and 1915 received attention from a wide range of British scholars (astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and philosophers). The reaction varied from deep acceptance (as was in the case of Arthur Eddington) to straightforward opposition. This book analyzes those reactions, which involved a large number of important scientists as well as philosophers, like Bertrand Russell. The study covers the time from the 1910s till the 1960s, when the work of a group of relativists centered in Cambridge (Sciama and Hawking) and London (Bondi, Pirani and Penrose) made a new, fresh approach to general relativity.
978-981-120-028-1 250pp US$98
Jul 2020 £85
Interacting Gravitational, Electromagnetic, Neutrino and Other Waves
In the Context of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity by Anzhong Wang (Baylor University, USA)
This book investigates nonlinear interactions between gravitational waves and matter fields, which could be detected by the current or forthcoming generation of gravitational wave detectors. It opens with an overview on the fundamentals of the Newman-Penrose formalism and a brief introduction to distribution theory, with which the author systematically develops a mathematical description of spacetimes of colliding gravitational waves. Also discussed are the collisions of a gravitational wave with a matter shell, a massless scalar, an electromagnetic, or a neutrino wave. Readership: Students and researchers studying gravitational waves and their nonlinear interactions among themselves and with matter fields.
978-981-121-148-5 200pp US$98
J ul 2020 £85
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Gravitational Lensing in Cosmology
by Toshifumi Futamase (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan)
Gravitational lensing has become an indispensable tool in observational cosmology. This book provides the theoretical foundation of the observations based on general relativity. It also covers a wide range of applications of gravitational lensing which are not available in the usual textbook of cosmology.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and astronomy.
978-981-3276-78-9 200pp US$98
May 2020 £85
Loop Quantum Gravity for Everyone
by Rodolfo Gambini (University of the Republic of Uruguay, Uruguay), Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, USA)
This book describes loops quantum gravity, one of the main contenders to unify Einstein’s general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. Geared to the general public, it is concise and has a light style that makes for easy reading yet covering many of the cutting-edge developments in the field. Readership: Beginning science students, science enthusiasts.
Topics on Strong Gravity
Mar 2020 £105
A Modern View on Theories and Experiments edited by César Augusto Zen Vasconcellos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil & International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network Coordinating Center (ICRANet), Italy)
In recent years, discrepancies between the data and the corresponding predictions of General Relativity have been observed, generating intense research activity. One of the most critical aspects is the presence of singularities in extreme physical situations. It indicates that either the parameters of General Relativity or the theory itself must be modified in the regime of strong field gravity and large space-time curvature. This book is focused on extended alternative gravity theories and the use of black holes, pulsars, and neutron stars as astrophysical laboratories to probe strong-field gravity. Readership: Students and researchers in general relativity and gravitation.
978-981-3277-33-5 300pp US$118
Jacob Bekenstein
The Conservative Revolutionary edited by Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, Germany), Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) & K K Phua (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Jacob Bekenstein, an Israeli theoretical physicist, planted the seeds of a revolution of our understanding of space-time. Using conservative intuitive methods like gedanken experiments, he discovered that black holes have thermodynamical properties such as entropy. Moreover, their entropy is proportional to the surface of their horizon, leading to the formulation of Bekenstein Bound, the amount of information that can be stored in a given region of space-time.
This book contains a series of scientific and personal contributions by his contemporaries who recall the struggle against his ideas and then with them: the fate accompanying many revolutionary ideas. This is followed by original scientific contributions by many of the leaders of current research on black hole physics and holography.
978-981-120-395-4 392pp US$88
Oct 2019 £75
Modified Gravity
Progresses and Outlook of Theories, Numerical Techniques and Observational Tests edited by Baojiu Li (Durham University, UK), Kazuya Koyama (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Modified gravity theories have been a main focus of theoretical cosmology research in the past decade, and are quickly developing into a mature research field that interests both theoretical and observational cosmologists. This book collects expert reviews on different topics in the field. Together, they form a self-consistent and self-contained treatment of the frontier research on gravity theories. Readership: Graduate students and researchers in cosmology.
