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Physics Newsletter - August 2011



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  TABLE OF CONTENTS (August 2011 Physics Newsletter)
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  1. New Reviews
  2. New & Forthcoming Publications
  3. Highlights
  4. Bestsellers
  5. Journals

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  1. NEW REVIEWS
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ADVANCES IN ATOMIC PHYSICS
An Overview
by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Laboratory Kastler Brossel, France) & David 
GuÃry-Odelin (Laboratory Collisions AgrÃgats RÃactivitÃ, France)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/6631.html


MORE AND DIFFERENT
Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon
by P W Anderson (Princeton University)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/8141.html


BCS: 50 YEARS
edited by Leon N Cooper & Dmitri Feldman (Brown University)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7728.html


CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS
by David Agmon (Technion Israel Institute of Technology) & Paul Gluck 
(Jerusalem College of Engineering)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7095.html


Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics - Vol. 20
LEPTON DIPOLE MOMENTS
edited by B Lee Roberts (Boston University) & William J Marciano 
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7273.html


PHENOMENOLOGY OF ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS
by Wojciech Florkowski (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce & Institute 
of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7396.html

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  2. NEW & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
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**ASTROPHYSICS/ASTRONOMY/COSMOLOGY**
Series on Knots and Everything - Vol. 47
INTRODUCTION TO THE ANISOTROPIC GEOMETRODYNAMICS
by Sergey Siparov (State University of Civil Aviation) 
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/8095.html

ADVENTURES IN COSMOLOGY
edited by David Goodstein (California Institute of Technology)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7820.html


**CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS / SOLID STATE PHYSICS**
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS
by Fuxiang Han (Dalian University of Technology)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/8218.html


**HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS / PARTICLE PHYSICS**
THE NEUTRON
A Tool and an Object in Nuclear and Particle Physics
by Hans G BÃrner (Institut Laue Langevin, France) & Friedrich GÃnnenwein 
(University TÃbingen, Germany)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7283.html

A MODERN INTRODUCTION TO PARTICLE PHYSICS
Third Edition
by Fayyazuddin & Riazuddin (National Centre for Physics, Pakistan)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/8064.html


**QUANTUM PHYSICS / QUANTUM MECHANICS / QUANTUM INFORMATION**
WEIMAR CULTURE AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the 
Forman Thesis
edited by Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley), Alexei 
Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia), & Helmuth Trischler 
(Deutsches Museum) http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7581.html

INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
by Roberto Casalbuoni (University of Florence)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7988.html


**STATISTICAL PHYSICS**
INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL MECHANICS
by John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary) 
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/8244.html


**THEORETICAL PHYSICS**
THE THERMODYNAMICS OF QUANTUM YANGâMILLS THEORY
Theory and Applications
by Ralf Hofmann (Heidelberg University)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/8015.html


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  3. HIGHLIGHTS
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THERMAL PHYSICS
Entropy and Free Energies
(Second Edition)
by Joon Chang Lee (University of Southern Mississippi)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/8092.html


GLASSY MATERIALS AND DISORDERED SOLIDS
An Introduction to Their Statistical Mechanics
(Revised Edition)
by Kurt Binder (Johannes-Gutenberg UniversitÃt) & Walter Kob (Università 
Montpellier 2)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7300.html


HEISENBERG'S QUANTUM MECHANICS
by Mohsen Razavy (University of Alberta)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7702.html


SIX QUANTUM PIECES
by Valerio Scarani (National University of Singapore), Lynn Chua & Shi 
Yang Liu (NUS High School of Mathematics and Science)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7965.html


PHYSICS OVER EASY
Breakfasts with Beth and Physics
(2nd Edition)
by Leonid V AzÃroff (University of Connecticut)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7636.html


MODERN ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS
(Revised Edition)
by Fujia Yang (Fudan University & Nottingham University) & Joseph H 
Hamilton (Vanderbilt University)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7099.html


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  4. BESTSELLERS
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FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE
The Story of Gauge Fields
by Kerson Huang (MIT)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/6447.html


INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY
by John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/6399.html


STATISTICAL METHODS IN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS
(2nd Edition)
by Frederick James (CERN)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/6096.html


CLASSICAL MECHANICS
(5th Edition)
by Tom W B Kibble & Frank H Berkshire (Imperial College London)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/p310.html


ELEMENTARY ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
Revised Edition
editby Walter A Harrison (Stanford University)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5432.html


INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
(Second Edition)
by A Das & T Ferbel (University of Rochester)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5460.html


THE PHYSICS OF SOLAR CELLS
by Jenny Nelson (Imperial College London)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/p276.html


FACTS AND MYSTERIES IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS
by Martinus J G Veltman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor & NIKHEF, The 
Netherlands)
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5088.html


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  5. JOURNALS
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International Journal of Modern Physics B
Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics; Applied Physics
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmpb/ijmpb.shtml


***Aims & Scope***
Launched in 1987, this journal covers the most important aspects as well 
as the latest developments in Condensed Matter, Statistical, Applied 
Physics and High Tc Superconductivity. One unique feature of this 
journal is its review section which contains articles with permanent 
research value besides the state-of-the-art research work in the 
relevant subject areas.


Notable IJMPB Papers:

BOGOLIUBOVâS VISION: QUASIAVERAGES AND BROKEN SYMMETRY TO QUANTUM 
PROTECTORATE AND EMERGENCE
by A. L. Kuzemsky (Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint 
Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia)
Vol. 24, No. 8 pp. 835â935
ENTANGLEMENT IN VALENCE-BOND-SOLID STATES
by Vladimir E. Korepin (State University of New York at Stony Brook) and 
Ying Xu (UniversitÃt Innsbruck, Austria)
Vol. 24, No. 11 pp. 1361 â 1440
SOME PROBLEMS IN COLD ATOM RESEARCH
by C.N. Yang (Tsinghua University)
Vol. 24, No. 18 pp 3469 â 3477
FIDELITY APPROACH TO QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS
by Shi-Jian Gu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Vol. 24, No. 23 pp. 4371â4458

THEORY OF ORBITAL MAGNETIZATION IN SOLIDS
by T. Thonhauser (Wake Forest University)
Vol. 25, No. 11 pp. 1429â1458



Modern Physics Letters B
Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics and Applied Physics
http://www.worldscinet.com/mplb/mplb.shtml


***Aims & Scope***
MPLB opens a channel for the fast circulation of important and useful 
research findings in Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical Physics, 
Applied Physics and High-Tc Superconductivity. It provides a convenient 
avenue for researchers all over the world to exchange information with 
others in similar fields of interest. A section consisting of brief 
reviews is included.

Notable MPLB Papers:

PROTEIN FOLDING STAGES AND UNIVERSAL EXPONENTS
by Kerson Huang (MIT)
Vol. 24, No. 20 pp. 2113-2115

THE SUPERFLUID PHASES OF LIQUID 3He: BCS THEORY
by A. J. Leggett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Vol. 24, No. 25 pp. 2525 2539

COOPER PAIR BREAKING
by P. Fulde (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
Vol. 24, No. 26 pp. 2601-2624

THE COMPLEXITY OF BROWNIAN PROCESSES RUN WITH NONLINEAR CLOCKS
Moongyu Park (University of Alabama, Huntsville) and John H. Cushman 
(Purdue University)
Vol. 25, No. 1 pp. 1-10

UNIVERSAL SPIN-HALL CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATIONS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL 
MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS
by Zhenhua Qiao (University of Texas, Austin), Wei Ren (University of 
Arkansas) and Jian Wang (University of Hong Kong)
Vol. 25, No. 6 pp. 359-376




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