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This book offers an introduction to established and novel optical micromanipulation techniques, and reviews the state-of-the-art of the emerging field of structured light fields and their applications in optical trapping, micromanipulation, and organisation.

This thesis deals with the problem of ion confinement in thermonuclear fusion devices. ISDEP has shown, using a simple model of the 3D magnetic field, how the ion confinement is affected by this symmetry breaking. Secondly, ISDEP has been applied successfully to the study of fast ion dynamics in fusion plasmas.

The book reports on the author's original work to address the use of today's state-of-the-art smartphones for human physical activity recognition.

Representing a paradigm shift in the architecture of quantum optics and offering building blocks for all-optical and hybrid quantum technologies, this book describes quantum photonic devices based on waveguide circuits embedded in miniature monolithic chips.

This book gives an excellent discussion of our basic understanding of different wave modes, using a full-waveform and multi-component approach.

This volume describes the task of developing high critical temperature superconducting quantum interference devices and using them as sensors for biomedical applications, including magnetic immunoassays, magnetoencephalography and MRI.

Exploring the interface between economics and the emerging field of complexity science, this book offers the first comprehensive complex systems analysis of real-world ownership networks. Presents potent new tools for studying economic and corporate networks.

Cosmic rays consist of elementary particles with enormous energy which originate from outside our solar system and constantly hit the Earth's atmosphere. Digital radio-antenna arrays offer a promising, complementary measurement method for high-energy cosmic rays.

This book investigates the effects of the radiation-pressure force of light on macroscopic mechanical structures. Includes detailed descriptions of several novel experiments.

This book provides an introduction to the physics of the Standard Model and beyond, and to the methods used to analyze Large Hadron Collider data. It presents a full phenomenological search for graviton emission in a multi-jet final state.

This book introduces a new Markov chain optimization method with braking the detailed balance. It develops a quantum Monte Carlo method for nonconserved particles and combines it with the excitation level analysis.

This study in geomorphology regards systems as open but at the same time operationally closed, as self-organized, structure-building and potentially self-referential. Uses state-of-the-art systems theory as a bridge to Human Geography and related studies.

A superb introduction to the physics of enhancement cavities, this volume shares new insights in attosecond physics and frequency-comb spectroscopy, covering key research questions such as increasing the accuracy of attempts to measure cavity parameters.

In this book, Corinna Reisinger describes a new organocatalytic asymmetric epoxidation of cyclic and acyclic a,ss-unsaturated ketones, using primary amine salts as catalysts, and hydrogen peroxide as an inexpensive and environmentally benign oxidant.

This book demonstrates for the first time, using state-of-the-art computer simulations, that the interpretation of future galaxy survey measurements is far more subtle than assumed, and that a major revision to our models of these effects is urgently needed.

This outstanding thesis charts the links between a molecule's shape and its photochemical reactivity, which has highly truncated excited states radically different to those in ground-state chemistry. Its novel use of bichromophoric interactions is promising.

This volume describes a major new advance in scanning 'SQUID' microscopy that surmounts limitations in spatial resolution by deploying a nano-sized superconducting quantum interference device judged capable of imaging the spin of a single electron.

This book presents an experimental and theoretical study of the coherent properties of trapped atomic ensembles at high densities. It points towards a means of making atom ensembles more useful in future quantum computers.

This book reviews the first demonstration of a cooperative optical non-linearity based on Rydberg excitation. Covers theoretical aspects of the non-linear effect, pioneering experimental results and implications for experiments in the single photon regime.

This thesis unifies the dissipative dynamics of an atom, particle or structure within an optical field that is influenced by the position of the atom, particle or structure iteslf. Discusses practical implications in cooling of several types of structure.

In this key contribution to modern cosmic ray physics, the author presents fresh numerical code for modeling cosmic ray propagation, and sets out credible evidence for a new spectral component that could be generated by the destruction or decay of dark matter.

The winner of UCL's annual HEP thesis prize, this work analyzes data from the second flight of the Antarctica Impulsive Transient Antenna, a balloon-borne experiment that searches for radio signals originating from ultra-high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays.

This singular non-invasive technique for in-line metrology is an outstanding contribution to the field, reporting significant advances in testing the properties of semiconductors, such as the characteristics of ultra-shallow junctions, without destroying them.

Supplying vital insights into the emergence and the evolution of cooperative behavior, this volume explores the classic 'Prisoner's Dilemma'-the interface between the underlying structure of a given population and the outcome of its cooperative dynamics.

This book describes a combination of orthogonal supramolecular interactions for the design of functional monolayer architectures on surfaces, that can be used as chemical and biosensors in a wide range of applications.

This book is devoted to ab initio studies of self-assembled organic molecules on a gold surface. It describes new methods and results relevant for physicists and chemists working on the assemblies of organic molecules on crystal surfaces.

This book examines the use of the corrole to combat atherosclerosis. It examines the effects of three rationally designed corrole-metal complexes on some of the many variables which contribute to the development of atherosclerosis.

Motivated by the discovery of intriguing effects that arise when electromagnetic radiation interacts with metallic nanostructures, this book focuses on fabrication of extended-area plasmonic nanostructures, and the optimization of their optical response.

This book presents a coherent picture of mesoscopic effects in quantum Hall systems, which accounts for integer and fractional filling factors and ranges from microscopic theory to effective models, and covers both equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena.

This book presents and demonstrates a coarse-grained model of DNA, simulating DNA tweezers, an iconic nanodevice, and a two-footed DNA walker - it represents the first time that coarse-grained modelling has been applied to dynamic DNA nanotechnology.