Granular materials are an integral part of our everyday life. They are also the base material for most industrial processing techniques. The highly dissipative nature of the particle collisions means energy input is needed in order to mobilize the grains. This interplay of dissi…
Requiring only an elementary knowledge of classical mechanics and some rudimentary ideas from quantum theory, this textbook provides a clear, instructive and highly readable introduction to thermal physics.
Statistical mechanics and field theory
This invaluable book provides a broad introduction to the fascinating and beautiful subject of many-body quantum systems that can be solved exactly. The subject began with Bethe's famous solution of the one-dimensional Heisenberg magnet more than 70 years ago, soon after the inv…
This book provides a challenging and stimulating introduction to the contemporary topics of complexity and criticality, and explores their common basis of scale invariance, a central unifying theme of the book." "The book includes a generous number of figures and exercises, and …