Statistical Physics, Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Michelson – Morley Experimentss

An Enigma for Physics and the History of Science by Maurizio Consoli (National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy), Alessandro Pluchino (University of Catania, Italy)

“This book has the great and uncommon virtue of combining the fascinating tale of a crucial step in the history of science with the related research sections, where the substantial contributions made by the authors themselves in this exciting field are reviewed. While the tutorial part of the book has a captivating style, suitable to entertain a general readership, the research chapters expose in a critical approach, based on the authors’ thorough research work, the fundamental implications that Michelson-Morley’s (MM) experiments in their more recent versions are having on present astroparticle physics and cosmology. “

Il Nuovo Saggiatore 196pp Jan 2019 978-981-3278-18-9 US$78 £70

Principles of Space-Time-Matter

Cosmology, Particles and Waves in Five Dimensions by Paul S Wesson, James M Overduin (Towson University, USA & Johns Hopkins University, USA)

“This is a self-contained text but does assume some background in tensor analysis, and a familiarity with general relativity will be very helpful. The book is well written and will interest graduate students, faculty, and researchers. It could serve as a supplement to a course in general relativity.”

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This book sums up the prospects for unification between relativity and particle physics by extending Einstein’s theory of General Relativity to five dimensions. This subject was first established by Paul Wesson in his previous best-seller, Space-Time-Matter, and discussed from a different perspective in Five-Dimensional Physics, both published by World Scientific in 1999 and 2006. This third book brings the field up to date and details exciting connections to quantum theory and particle physics, suggesting the possibility of new experimental tests.

978-981-3235-77-9 276pp US$98

J an 2019 £85

New Perspectives on Einstein’s E = mc 2

by Young Suh Kim (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Marilyn E Noz (New York University, USA)

Einstein’s energy–momentum relation is applicable to particles of all speeds, including particles at rest and massless particles moving at the speed of light. If one formula or formalism is applicable to all speeds, we call it “Lorentzcovariant”. This book aims to extend Einstein’s Lorentz covariance to the internal space-time symmetries of elementary particles moving with different speeds. Using the same mathematical tool, it is possible to give a Lorentz-covariant picture of Gell-Mann’s quark model for the proton at rest and Feynman’s parton model for the fast-moving proton.

978-981-3237-70-4 200pp US$78

Nov 2018 £69

One Hundred Years of General Relativity

From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity

(In 2 Volumes)

edited by Wei-Tou Ni (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

"This collection is certainly meant for experts, but it must be recommended to students and people interested in the field; in one book they can find a complete overview of General Relativity: past, present and future." Angela di Virgilio

INFN, Frascati

1356pp(Set) May 2017 978-981-4635-12-7 US$248 £206

MORE TITLES LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY: THE FIRST 30 YEARS

ASHTEKAR ABHAY (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA), PULLIN JORGE (LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789813209923

FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS (SECOND EDITION)

SAULSON PETER R (SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789813143074

AN OVERVIEW OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: THEORY, SOURCES AND DETECTION

AUGER GERARD (UNIVERSITÉPARIS DIDEROT — PARIS 7, FRANCE), PLAGNOL ERIC (UNIVERSITÉPARIS DIDEROT — PARIS 7, FRANCE) 9789813141759

CLASSIC TITLES GENERAL RELATIVITY: A FIRST EXAMINATION

BLECHER MARVIN (VIRGINIA TECH, USA) 9789813108462

LECTURES ON GRAVITATION

DAS ASHOK (UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, USA & SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS, INDIA) 9789814329378

SPECIAL RELATIVITY FOR BEGINNERS: A TEXTBOOK FOR UNDERGRADUATES

FREUND JÜRGEN (SCHUBART COLLEGE, GERMANY) 9789812771599

INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY

WALECKA JOHN DIRK (COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, USA) 9789812705846

100 YEARS OF RELATIVITY SPACE-TIME STRUCTURE: EINSTEIN AND BEYOND

ASHTEKAR ABHAY (INSTITUTE FOR GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS AND GEOMETRY, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789812563941

AN INTRODUCTION TO BLACK HOLES, INFORMATION AND THE STRING THEORY REVOLUTION: THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE

SUSSKIND LEONARD (STANFORD UNIVERSITY, USA), LINDESAY JAMES (HOWARD UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789812560834

EUCLIDEAN QUANTUM GRAVITY

GIBBONS G W & HAWKING S W (CAMBRIDGE) 9789810205157

PROCEEDINGS THE PHYSICS OF LIVING MATTER: SPACE, TIME AND INFORMATION - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 27TH SOLVAY CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS

GROSS DAVID ET AL (UC SANTA BARBARA) 9789813239241

LEPTON PHOTON INTERACTIONS AT HIGH ENERGIES - LEPTON PHOTON 2017 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 28TH INTERNATIONAL

WEI WANG (SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, CHINA), XING ZHI-ZHONG (CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CHINA) 9789811204609

2D QUANTUM METAMATERIALS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 NIST WORKSHOP

KIRK WILEY P ET AL (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, USA) 9789811206054

EXOTIC NUCLEI - EXON-2018 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EXOTIC NUCLEI

YU E PENIONZHKEVICH, YU G SOBOLEV (JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH, DUBNA, RUSSIA) 9789811209444

HEAVY PARTICLES AND FLAVOURS - PROCEEDINGS OF LISHEP 2018 WORKSHOP ON HEAVY PARTICLES AND FLAVOURS

EDITED BY SANTORO ALBERTO ET AL (UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO (UERJ), BRAZIL) 9789811200373

THE NEW PHYSICS FRONTIERS IN THE LHC-2 ERA - PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

ZICHICHI ANTONINO (EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) 9789811206849

PARTICLE PHYSICS AT THE SILVER JUBILEE OF LOMONOSOV CONFERENCES - PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTEENTH LOMONOSOV CONFERENCE ON ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

STUDENIKIN ALEXANDER I (MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY, RUSSIA & JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (DUBNA), RUSSIA) 9789811202322

SOLAR NEUTRINOS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL SOLAR NEUTRINO CONFERENCE

MIKKO MEYER, KAI ZUBER (TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDEN, GERMANY) 9789811204289

INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS ON NUCLEAR WAR AND PLANETARY EMERGENCIES - INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON NUCLEAR WAR AND PLANETARY EMERGENCIES — 49TH SESSION

ZICHICHI ANTONINO (EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) 9789811205200

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND COLLECTIVE EFFECTS IN PARTICLE BEAM PHYSICS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE NOCE 2017 WORKSHOP

CHATTOPADHYAY SWAPAN ET AL (FERMILAB, USA & NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789813279605

PROBING THE MEANING OF QUANTUM MECHANICS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE II INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION. PHYSICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND LOGICAL APPROACHES

AERTS DIEDERIK ET AL (BRUSSELS FREE UNIVERSITY, BELGIUM) 9789813276888

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STATISTICAL PHYSICS, COMPLEXITY AND NONLINEAR SCIENCE

Adiabatic Thermodynamics of Fluids

From Hydrodynamics to General Relativity by Christian Fronsdal (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

This book describes the interaction of dynamical metric with extended distributions of matter. It will be shown that any theory of interacting fields that includes the Einsteinian metric must be based on an action principle. This allows us, for the first time, to use “energy” as a precise concept in vortex dynamics. The theory discussed in this book is applicable to rotating planets, Couette flow, tresses in fluids (inside the meniscus, negative pressures), immiscible fluids, amongst others. Readership: Graduates, physicists and engineers interested in hydrodynamics and thermodynamics.

978-981-120-067-0 350pp US$128

Dec 2019 £115

Textbook Introduction to Nonadiabatic Dynamics

by Hiroki Nakamura (Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan & The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)

Textbook Principles of Classical Thermodynamics

This textbook explains the basic concepts of nonadiabatic transitions, a highly multidisciplinary concept that is applicable to various state and phase changes in physics, chemistry and biology. Quantum mechanically intriguing phenomena such as complete reflection and nonadiabatic tunneling are emphasized. The Zhu-Nakamura theory as developed by the author is employed to deal with non-negligible classically forbidden transitions. Furthermore, by controlling nonadiabatic transitions with laser, designing chemical reaction dynamics as we desire is shown to be theoretically possible. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in physical chemistry, atomic and molecular physics, theoretical chemistry and physics, photochemistry and biochemistry.

978-981-120-341-1 350pp US$98

Oct 2019 £85

Applied to Materials Science by Didier de Fontaine (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

This textbook introduces the fundamentals of classical thermodynamics and its various applications to materials science. It starts with a restrictive, quasi-axiomatic treatment of classical thermodynamics and moves on to address mesoscopic and irreversible phenomena such as non-uniformity, kinetics, order-disorder reactions, crystals and metastable materials (glasses), plus also a brief introduction to statistical thermodynamics and topological disorder. The author presents classical thermodynamics in a unified way, from the most fundamental principles to non-uniform systems. In this way, this book reconciles in a unified manner techniques generally presented separately in physics and materials texts.

Readership: Students and professionals in solid state physics and materials science.