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The treatment of time in quantum mechanics is still an important and challenging open question in the foundation of the quantum theory. The book describes the problems, and the attempts and achievements in defining, formalizing and measuring different time quantities in quantum theory.

Looking for the real state of play in computational many-particle physics? This book presents an overview of state-of-the-art numerical methods for studying interacting classical and quantum many-particle systems. This excellent book comes complete with online files and updates allowing readers to stay right up to date.

In the Langrangian view, fluid parcels are followed around as they move with the flow, experiencing chaotic or stochastic motion. This book examines both pictures, presenting a number of theoretical and experimental lectures on various aspects of transport and mixing of active and passive particles in geophysical flows.

This book collects lectures on the general theory of relativity given by Dr. Oyvind Gron at the University of Oslo, Norway. This accessible text allows students to follow the deductions all the way throughout the book.

The new edition of this well received primer on rigorous aspects of symmetry breaking presents a more detailed and thorough discussion of the mechanism of symmetry breaking in classical field theory in relation with the Noether theorem.

This volume is a collection of Nishina Memorial Lectures delivered by distinguished physicists during the past 50 years at the invitation of the Nishina Memorial Foundation. You can read the remainder of this lecture and all other lectures online via the link under "E-content".

This book serves as a tutorial, high-level guided tour through the black hole landscape. Coverage includes information paradox and black hole thermodynamics, numerical simulations of black hole formation, and braneworld scenarios and stability of black holes.

This book presents a consistent formulation for the handling of noncovariant gauges in the quantization and renormalization of gauge theories. It serves as an ideal introduction to postgraduate students, lecturers and researchers in the field.

Written by experts from geophysics, astrophysics and engineering, this unique book on the interdisciplinary aspects of turbulence offers recent advances in the field and covers everything from the very nature of turbulence to some practical applications.

This is the third volume in a series of books on general topics in supersymmetric mechanics. This collection presents material from the well established international and annual INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati Winter School on the Attractor Mechanism.

A mathematically consistent formulation of relativistic quantum electrodynamics (QED) has still to be found. Large Coulomb Systems explores a selection of mathematical topics inspired by QED.

This book recounts the recent theoretical and experimental advances in the properties and applications of magnetic fluids. It compiles seven years of research from approximately thirty interdisciplinary groups of scientists.

This book presents a detailed derivation of the spectral properties of the Recursion Operators allowing one to derive all the fundamental properties of the soliton equations and to study their hierarchies.

This primer introduces classical general relativity with emphasis on the clarity of conceptual structure and on the basic mathematical methods to build up, systematically, application skills. End-of-chapter exercises complete the main text.

Hard spheres and related objects (hard disks and mixtures of hard systems) are paradigmatic systems: indeed, they have served as a basis for the theoretical and numerical development of a number of fields, such as general liquids and fluids, amorphous solids, liquid crystals, colloids and granular matter, to name but a few.

This book is a comprehensive survey of most of the theoretical and experimental achievements in the field of quantum estimation of states and operations.

Only satellite-based remote-sensing instruments generate the wealth of global data on the concentrations of atmospheric constituents that are necessary for long-term monitoring of the atmosphere.

Lectures of a Workshop Held in Hamburg, Germany, July 27-28, 1999

This book is devoted to recent developments in the field of rotating fluids, in particular the study of Taylor--Couette flow, spherical Couette flow, planar Couette flow, as well as rotating annulus flow.

Those that are integrable provide various mathematical methods, presented by experts in this tutorial book, to find special analytic solutions to both integrable and partially integrable equations.

The contributions to this volume are based on selected lectures from the first international workshop on decoherence, information, complexity and entropy (DICE).

Chaos theory plays an important role in modern physics and related sciences, but -, the most important results so far have been obtained in the study of gravitational systems applied to celestial mechanics.

The authors present important aspects of modern research on the mathematical structure of Einstein's field equations and they show how to extract their physical content from them by mathematically exact methods.

Lectures of a Workshop Held at Mont Saint Odile, France, October 2-5, 1998

The outcome of a close collaboration between mathematicians and mathematical physicists, these lecture notes present the foundations of A. Connes's noncommutative geometry, as well as its applications in particular to the field of theoretical particle physics.

This concise text introduces techniques from quantum mechanics, especially scattering theory, to compute the effects of an external background on a quantum field in general, and on the properties of the quantum vacuum in particular.

The present volume, published at the occasion of his 100th birthday anniversary, is a collection of articles that reviews the impact of Kolomogorov's work in the physical sciences and provides an introduction to the modern developments that have been triggered in this way to encompass recent applications in biology, chemistry,.

The lectures that four authors present in this volume investigate core topics related to the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Accelerated expansion occured in the ?36 very early Universe - an exponential expansion in the in ationary period 10 s after the Big Bang.

Over last decades low-dimensional materials are in focus of physics and chemistry as well as of material and other natural sciences. In particular, it is important to understand that the line groups are much wider class of symmetries than the well-known rod groups.

Powerful techniques, including heavy ion and exotic beams, are pushing the frontiers of nuclear physics. This book discusses theoretical and experimental aspects of nuclear collisions and beams. It also addresses conquest of the neutron and the proton drip-lines, nuclear astrophysics, and the equation of state of hypernuclear matter.