Aharonov-Bohm and other Cyclic Phenomena (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, #139)
by James Hamilton
Written for theoretical physicists, this book covers such topics as motion around a solenoid, flux measurements, and other phenomena involving movement on a closed circuit, as well as a discussion of a variety of physical phenomena where the A-B phase is a basic feature.
Superdense QCD Matter and Compact Stars (NATO Science Series II, #197)
2 Homogeneous superconducting state 210 3 Superconducting phases with broken space symmetries 213 4 Flavor asymmetric quark condensates 219 5 Concluding remarks 221 Acknowledgments 222 References 223 Neutral Dense Quark Matter 225 Mei Huang and Igor Shovkovy 1 Introduction 225 2 Local charge neutrality: homogeneous phase 226 3 Global charge neutrality: mixed phase 234 4 Conclusion 238 References 238 Possibility of color magnetic superconductivity 241 Toshitaka Tatsumi, Tomoyuki Maruyama, and Eij...
Superconductor/Semiconductor Junctions (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, #174)
by Thomas Schapers
This book, featuring the most comprehensive treatment of Josephson junctions ever published, describes superconductor/two-dimensional-electron-gas (2DEG) structures, providing a better understanding of their transport properties. It also discusses the control of junctions using gate electrodes or injection currents, and the physical effects observed in these junctions.
Applications of High Temperature Superconductors to Electric Power Equipment
by Swarn S. Kalsi
The only one-stop reference to design, analysis, and manufacturing concepts for power devices utilizing HTS . High temperature superconductors (HTS) have been used for building many devices for electric grids worldwide and for large ship propulsion motors for the U.S. Navy. And yet, there has been no single source discussing theory and design issues relating to power applications of HTS-until now. This book provides design and analysis for various devices and includes examples of devices built o...
Morphogenesis
What are the relations between the shape of a system of cities and that of fish school? Which events should happen in a cell in order that it participates to one of the finger of our hands? How to interpret the shape of a sand dune? This collective book written for the non-specialist addresses these questions and more generally, the fundamental issue of the emergence of forms and patterns in physical and living systems. It is a single book gathering the different aspects of morphogenesis and app...
The authors present a theoretical and numerical study of anisotropic high-temperature materials using techniques of muon spin rotation spectroscopy. Using the London theory, the method obtains information on the microscopic magnetic fields in the probe. The muon spin rotation technique is presented in some detail, especially the muon behaviour in magnetic fields. The authors then describe the superconductor and present a prescription for numerical calculations of the fields. These in turn are us...
Electron-Phonon Interaction in Oxide Superconductors: Proceedings of the First Cinvestav Superconductivity Symposium
by R Baquero
U.S. Technological Endeavors
As the rules of global Internet develop and evolve, digital trade has risen in prominence on the global trade and economic agenda, but multilateral trade agreements have not kept pace with the complexities of the digital economy. The economic impact of the Internet is estimated to be $4.2 trillion in 2016, making it the equivalent of the fifth-largest national economy. According to one source, the volume of global data flows grew 45-fold from 2005 to 2014, faster than international trade or fina...
This is the first detailed description in English of radiation and polymeric material interaction and the influences of thermal and optical material properties. As such, it provides comprehensive information on material and process characteristics as well as applications regarding plastic laser welding. The first part of this practical book introduces the structure and physical properties of plastics, before discussing the interaction of material and radiation in the NIR and IR spectral range....
Ferroelectric Phenomena in Crystals
by Boris A. Strukov and Arkadi P. Levanyuk
The expansion of the application of ferroelectric crystals in engineering as well as of a number of fundamental problems of solid-state physics, which have not yet been solved and which bear a direct relation to ferro electricity, has lately stimulated much interest in the problem of ferroelectricity. In courses of solid-state physics ferroelectricity is studied today along with traditional disciplines, such as magnetism, superconductivity, and 'semiconducting phe nomena. Moreover, new speciali...
This volume contains the proceedings of the International Winter School on Electronic Properties of High Temperature Superconductors, which was held March 3-10, 1990, in Kirchberg (Tyrol), Austria. This course was a sequel to three meetings on the subject of conducting polymers held there one, three and five years previously. The new topic was taken up since many of the scientists working on conducting polymers are now also actively interested in high-Tc superconductors, a research area that con...
Realizing Controllable Quantum States
by Hideaki Takayanagi and Junsaku Nitta
High-Temperature Superconductors (Springer Series in Materials Science, #125)
by Ajay Kumar Saxena
This book presents the current knowledge about superconductivity in high Tc cuprate superconductors. There is a large scientific interest and great potential for technological applications. The book discusses all the aspects related to all families of cuprate superconductors discovered so far. Beginning with the phenomenon of superconductivity, the book covers: the structure of cuprate HTSCs, critical currents, flux pinning, synthesis of HTSCs, proximity effect and SQUIDs, possible applications...
Anomalous and Topological Hall Effects in Itinerant Magnets (Springer Theses)
by Yuki Shiomi
This book presents an investigation of the anomalous and topological Hall effects in some itinerant ferromagnets and helimagnets by measurements of Hall effects driven by electrical or heat current. New clarifications are provided for spin-dependent Hall effects induced by the Berry phase, skew scattering, and scalar spin chirality. The author reveals the scattering-free nature of the Berry-phase-induced anomalous Hall current by conducting the first comparative study of electrical and ther...
During a century, from the Van der Waals mean field description (1874) of gases to the introduction of renormalization group (RG techniques 1970), thermodynamics and statistical physics were just unable to account for the incredible universality which was observed in numerous critical phenomena. The great success of RG techniques is not only to solve perfectly this challenge of critical behaviour in thermal transitions but to introduce extremely useful tools in a wide field of daily situations w...
The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a device used to amplify or switch electronic signals. It is by far the most common field-effect transistor in both digital and analog circuits. The MOSFET is composed of a channel of n-type or p-type semiconductor material, and is accordingly called an NMOSFET or a PMOSFET (also commonly nMOSFET, pMOSFET. The width of the channel, which determines how well the device conducts, is controlled by an electrode ca...
Advances in Superconductivity
The Tenth International Symposium on Superconductivity was held October 27-30, 1997, in Gifu, Japan. Convened annually since 1988, the symposium covers the whole field of superconductivity from fundamental physics and chemistry to new applications. This year there was much discussion on the unique properties of cuprates such as the non-Fermi liquid normal state, spin-charge separation, spin gap, and d-wave symmetry, as well as the latest exotic materials. The potential of YBCO bulk materials was...
Layered Superconductors: Volume 1 (International Series of Monographs on Physics)
Ferromagnetism of metallic systems, especially those including transition metals, has been a controversial subject of modern science for a long time. This controversy sterns from the apparent dual character of the d-electrons responsible for magnetism in transition metals, i.e., they are itinerant elec- trons described by band theory in their ground state, while at finite tem- peratures they show various properties that have long been attributed to a system consisting of local magnetic moments....
Electronic Properties and Mechanisms of High Tc Superconductors
This Workshop took place after the International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity - High Temperature Superconductors III (Kanazawa, 22-27 July 1991) and attracted some of the most distingusihed participants from that major event. From the conference some key areas were selected and discussed at the workshop in great detail. These include cuprate superconductors and a new class of high-T c M x C 60 . The investigation of the similarity and dissimilarity between the prop...
Leading-Edge Semiconductor Research
This book includes within its scope studies of the structural, electrical, optical and acoustical properties of bulk, low-dimensional and amorphous semiconductors; computational semiconductor physics; interface properties, including the physics and chemistry of heterojunctions, metal-semiconductor and insulator-semiconductor junctions; all multi-layered structures involving semiconductor components. Dopant incorporation. Growth and preparation of materials, including both epitaxial (e.g. molecul...