New Forms of Nanocarbon. Theory and Observation -- Carbon Family at the Nanoscale -- Structural and Electronic Properties of Isolated Nanodiamonds: A Theoretical Perspective -- From Nanodiamond to Nanowires -- Quantum Chemical Studies of Growth Mechanisms of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond -- Nanodiamonds in the Cosmos -- Diamond Molecules Found in Petroleum -- Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films -…
Invited Papers -- Nanostructured Materials Based Next Generation Devices and Sensors -- Metal-Induced Crystallization — An Advanced Technology for Producing Polycrystalline Si Films on Foreign Substrates -- Electronic Characterisation and Modelling of Disordered Semiconductors -- Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions -- Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Bio-Applications -- Transmission Elec…
Statistical Description of Large Systems. Postulates of Statistical Physics -- The Different Statistical Ensembles. General Methods in Statistical Physics -- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics in Equilibrium -- The Ideal Gas -- Indistinguishability, the Pauli Principle (Quantum Mechanics) -- General Properties of the Quantum Statistics -- Free Fermions Properties -- Elements of Bands Theory…
The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars -- Lower bound to the energy of complex atoms -- Improved Lower Bound on the Indirect Coulomb Energy -- Letter to the Editor -- Proof of the Stability of Highly Negative Ions in the Absence of the Pauli Principle -- Atomic and Molecular Negative Ions -- Bound on the maximum negative ionization of atoms and molecules -- Approximate Neutrality of Large…
Part 1 General Tables: 1.1 The Fundamental Constants -- 1.2 The International System of Units -- 1.3 Rudiments of Crystallography Part 2 The Elements Part 3 Classes of Materials: 3.1 Metals -- Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys -- Aluminium and Aluminium Alloys -- Titanium and Titanium Alloys -- Zirconium and Zirconium Alloys -- Iron and Steels -- Cobalt and Cobalt Alloys -- Nickel and Nickel Super…
KdV-Class Solitons -- Generalized KdV Equations. NLS and DNLS Equations -- Classic Two- and Three-Dimensional KP Models and Their Applications -- Generalized Two- and Three-Dimensional Models and Their Applications -- Appendices.This book is devoted to one of the most interesting and rapidly developing areas of modern nonlinear physics and mathematics - the theoretical, analytical and advanced …
Lasers with Nonresonant Feedback and Laserlike Emission from Powders: Early Ideas and Experiments -- Neodymium Random Lasers: Experimental Studies of Stimulated Emission -- Propagation of Light in Neodymium Random Lasers -- Theoretical Modeling of Neodymium Random Lasers -- Engineering Aspects of Neodymium Random Lasers: External Seeding, Design, and Second Harmonic Generation -- Random Lasers …
Fundamentals of Functional Materials -- Functional Materials: Properties, Processing and Applications -- Scaling of Silicon-Based Devices to Submicron Dimensions -- Unsolved Problems in Ferroelectrics for Scanning Probe Microscopy -- Fundamentals of Scanning Probe Techniques -- Principles of Basic and Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy -- Nanoscale Probing of Physical and Chemical Functionality…
Preface -- I. Quantum-statistical self-consistent field models - 1. The generalized Thomas-Fermi model - 2. Electron wave functions in a given potential - 3. Quantum-statistical self-consistent field models - 4. The Hartree-Fock-Slater model for the average atom -- II. Radiative and thermodynamical properties of high-temperature dense plasma - 5. Interaction of radiation with matter - 6. The eq…
The Renormalization Group Approach – From Fermi Liquids to Quantum Dots (R. Shankar) -- Semiconductor Few-Electron Quantum Dots as Spin Qubits (J.M. Elzerman et al.) -- Low-Temperature Conduction of a Quantum Dot (M. Pustilnik and L. Glazman) -- Andreev Billiards (C.W.J. Beenakker).Quantum dots, often denoted artificial atoms, are the exquisite tools by which quantum behavior can be probed on…