Adaptive Optics Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Reduction Strategies -- The Sun and (Exo-)Planets -- Star Formation and Brown Dwarfs -- Evolved Stars -- Galactic Center and AGN -- Galaxies and Cosmology.The field of Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomy has matured in recent years, and diffraction-limited image resolution in the near-infrared is now routinely achieved by ground-based 8 to 10…
Photon Scattering -- Lepton Scattering -- Quasi-Elastic Lepton-Quark Scattering -- The Hydrogen Atom -- Many Electron Atoms -- Hadrons -- Covalent and Ionic Bonding -- Intermolecular Forces -- Cold Neutron Scattering -- The Nuclear Force and the Deuteron -- Quantum Gases -- Quantum Liquids -- Metals -- Nuclei — Droplets of a Fermi Liquid -- Stars, Planets, and Asteroids -- Elementary Particle…
Maxwell and Schrödinger -- Lorentz, Pauli and Dirac -- Quantum Fields and Particles -- Scattering and Bound States -- Hyperfine Shifts, Radiation, Quarks.In this book, quantum mechanics is developed from the outset on a relativistic basis, using the superposition principle, Lorentz invariance and gauge invariance. Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics as well as classical relativistic mechanics ap…
Elements of Quantum Dynamics -- Electron-Impurity System -- Linear Response Theory -- Bosons Interacting with Electrons -- Interacting Phonon Systems -- Effects of Electron-Electron Interaction -- Non-Equilibrium Electrons -- Non-Equilibrium Diagram Technique -- Kinetics of Bounded Systems -- Quantum Magnetotransport -- Photoexcitation -- Ballistic and Hopping Transport -- Multi-Channel Kinetic…
Noncommutative Geometry -- Poisson Geometry and Deformation Quantization -- Applications in Physics -- Topological Quantum Field Theory.This volume reflects the growing collaboration between mathematicians and theoretical physicists to treat the foundations of quantum field theory using the mathematical tools of q-deformed algebras and noncommutative differential geometry. A particular challeng…
Results in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics -- The Construction of Fields -- Canonical Quantization -- Commutators and Propagators -- Interactions and the S-matrix -- The Electromagnetic Field -- Examples of Scattering Processes -- Functional Integral Representations -- Renormalization -- Gauge Theories -- Symmetry -- Spontaneous symmetry breaking -- Anomalies I -- Elements of differential geomet…
An Introduction to the Physics of the Early Universe -- Cosmological Perturbation Theory -- Cosmic Microwave Backgrond Anisotropies -- Oberservational Cosmology -- Dark Matter and Dark Energy -- String Cosmology -- Brane-World Cosmology -- Gravitational Wave Astronomy: the High Frequency Window -- Computational Black Hole Dynamics.The Physics of the Early Universe is an edited and expanded vers…
Positron Emission Tomography in Clinical Medicine -- Physics and Instrumentation in PET -- Data Acquisition and Performance Characterization in PET -- Image Reconstruction Algorithms in PET -- Quantitative Techniques in PET -- Tracer Kinetic Modeling in PET -- Coregistration of Structural and Functional Images -- Anato-Molecular Imaging: Combining Structure and Function -- Radiohalogens for PET…
Neutrinos, Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravity -- The Neutrino Mass Matrix — From A4 to Z3 -- Neutrinos — Inner Properties and Role as Astrophysical Messengers -- Lepton Flavor Violation in the SUSY Seesaw Model: An Update -- Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter in the Galaxy -- Supernovae and Dark Energy -- Semiclassical Cosmology with Running Cosmological Constant -- Limits on New Invers…
ElectroWeak Symmetry Breaking as of 2003, on the Way to the Large Hadron Collider -- Current Status of the CKM Matrix and the CP Violation -- Neutrino Masses -- Neutrinos -- Baryo- and Leptogenesis (Outline) -- Scalar Fields in Particle Physics in Cosmology -- Inflation, Quantum Fluctuations and Cosmological Perturbations -- Cosmic Microwave Background Cosmology -- Cosmology with Supernovae 1A …