Author : Mike Guidry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1316518612
A pedagogical introduction to the modern applications of groups, algebras, and topology for undergraduate and graduate students in physics.
Author : Paul Preuss
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1626818835
"Paul Preuss has done a fine thing. He has written a magnificent book in BROKEN SYMMETRIES. I admire his knowledge and artistry." —Roger Zelazny BROKEN SYMMETRIES introduces theoretical physicist Peter Slater and world-traveling photojournalist Anne-Marie Brand. They meet in Hawaii, where Anne-Marie is in pursuit of a story about the giant atom-smasher TERAC, the newest and biggest particle accelerator in the world, built amidst the pineapple fields of Oahu. Dr. Martin Edovich is the triumphant scientist behind the project—he claims that "his" discovery of I-particles will win him the Nobel Prize and change the face of physics. But Peter Slater predicted the existence of I-particles long ago and suspects that they are unstable—explosive and potentially cataclysmic. And as TERAC ramps up, Slater’s theory is about to be tested. The symmetries of matter itself are about to be unexpectedly broken, unleashing the fury of self-annihilation...
Author : Jack Ridl
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2006-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814335209
Michigan poet Jack Ridl leads readers into reflective connection with the everyday world in this unique and enjoyable volume. Broken Symmetry is a collection drawn from the experiences of daily life and organized through the context of mathematics. Poet Jack Ridl uses remarkably clear and precise language to express a singular awareness of the world around us. Some of the poems in this volume deal with the universal human experience of loss, others discover a fresh perspective on what is easily overlooked, and many seek the goodness and joy that remain in a challenging world. Poems are grouped into chapters by mathematical themes, suggesting a commonality in these two separate worlds that is often overlooked. The straightforward language and universal subject matter make Broken Symmetry a profound collection of poetry that will appeal to readers of all backgrounds.
Author : Leopold Mathelitsch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1999-03-10
Category : Medical
ISBN :
The rapid and continuing growth on liquid crystal research is not only the result of the high success of liquid crystal display technology, but also because of the great potential for new and improved applications. This is a unique area of scientific research in which the joint research efforts of chemists, physicists and material scientists have led to spectacular practical developments which are been exploited commercially. This two-volume set of the series Structure and Bonding focuses on the structural properties of liquid crystals. The balanced, in-depth coverage of both theoretical and experimental aspects by leading experts serves as a basis for further innovations in this dynamic field and makes these volumes an essential resource for both academic and industrial researchers.
Author : T. Eguchi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 9812795820
This text contains selected papers of the particle theorist, Professor Nambu. It comprises about 40 papers which made fundamental contributions to our understanding of particle physics during the last few decades. The unpublished lecture note on string theory (1969) and the first paper on spontaneous symmetry breaking (1961) are retyped and included. The book also contains a memoir of Professor Nambu on his research career.
Author : Alberto Galindo
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Symmetry (Physics)
ISBN :
Author : Adriaan M J Schakel
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9813107197
This textbook covers the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics in a modern and unified way, using quantum field theory in the functional-integral approach. The book highlights symmetry aspects in acknowledging that much of the collective behaviors of condensed matter systems at low temperatures emerge above a nontrivial ground state, which spontaneously breaks the symmetry.The emphasis is on effective field theories which provide an efficient and powerful description that is valid at long wavelengths and low frequencies. In conjunction with the emphasis on effective theories, a modern approach towards renormalization is taken, whereby a wavenumber cut-off is introduced to set a scale beyond which the microscopic model under consideration ceases to be valid.The unique and innovative character of this presentation, free of historical constraints, allows for a compact and self-contained treatment of the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics.
Author : H. a. Ormziar
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781517223885
What happens when you combine the power of science with religion?! A young theologian from the Middle East lives happily with his wife until he suddenly realizes that their life is at risk and all the prophecies he read about the end-day are about to come true. His quest to uncover the truth leads him to the unexpected!
Author : John Freund
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN :
This important study makes a convincing case for its thesis that the dramatic form of Shakespeare's plays corresponds to that of a natural system evolving to a more complex state while undergoing symmetry breaking. Drawing upon such key concepts of chaos theory as global agency and self-similarity, the book constructs a methodology which illuminates many problematic aspects of agency in the selected comedies, tragedies, and histories it examines. Each of these genres is shown to reflect the paradoxical dynamics of a chaotic system. This fresh «systems perspective» offers a serious challenge to the structuralist assumptions underlying many current literary approaches.
Author : Franco Strocchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662621665
The third edition of the by now classic reference on rigorous analysis of symmetry breaking in both classical and quantum field theories adds new topics of relevance, in particular the effect of dynamical Coulomb delocalization, by which boundary conditions give rise to volume effects and to energy/mass gap in the Goldstone spectrum (plasmon spectrum, Anderson superconductivity, Higgs phenomenon). The book closes with a discussion of the physical meaning of global and local gauge symmetries and their breaking, with attention to the effect of gauge group topology in QCD. From the reviews of the first edition: It is remarkable to see how much material can actually be presented in a rigorous way (incidentally, many of the results presented are due to Strocchi himself), yet this is largely ignored, the original heuristic derivations being, as a rule, more popular. - At each step he strongly emphasizes the physical meaning and motivation of the various notions introduced [...] a book that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature, and does it rather well. It could also be a good basis for a graduate course in mathematical physics. J.-P. Antoine, Physicalia 28/2, 2006 Despite many accounts in popular textbooks and a widespread belief, the phenomenon is rather subtle, requires an infinite set of degrees of freedom and an advanced mathematical setting of the system under investigation. [...] The mathematically oriented graduate student will certainly benefit from this thorough, rigorous and detailed investigation. G. Roepstorff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1075, 2006 From the reviews of the second edition: This second edition of Strocchi’s Symmetry Breaking presents a complete, generalized and highly rigorous discussion of the subject, based on a formal analysis of conditions necessary for the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking to occur in classical systems, as well as in quantum systems. [...] This book is specifically recommended for mathematical physicists interested in a deeper and rigorous understanding of the subject, and it should be mandatory for researchers studying the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking. S. Hajjawi, Mathematical Reviews, 2008
