New and Notable Titles in Spring 2019

Advanced Quantum Mechanics,Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics

New Edition

PT SymmetryIn Quantum and Classical PhysicsBy (author): Carl M Bender (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Contributions by: Patrick E Dorey, Clare Dunning, Andreas Fring, Daniel W Hook, Hugh F Jones, Sergii Kuzhel, GézaLévai, Roberto Tateo

Originated by the author in 1998, the field of PT (parity-time) symmetry has become an extremely active and exciting area of research. PT-symmetric quantum and classical systems have theoretical, experimental, and commercial applications, and have been the subject of many journal articles,

PhD theses, conferences, and symposia. Carl Bender’s work has influenced major advances in physics and generations of students.

This book is an accessible entry point to PT symmetry, ideal for students and scientists looking to begin their own research projects in this field.

468pp Jan 2019978-1-78634-595-0 US$138 £120978-1-78634-668-1(pbk) US$58 £50

Interdisciplinary

Topology and Physicsedited by Chen Ning Yang (Tsinghua University, China), Mo-Lin Ge (Nankai University, China) & Yang-Hui He (City University of London, UK)

This book is a contribution of an assembly of grand masters of the field, guiding us with their world-renowned expertise on the subject of the interplay between “Topology” and “Physics”.

This book is a collective contribution from respected figures such as Chen Ning Yang, Sir Michael Atiyah, Nick Manton, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Edward Witten, Louis H Kauffman, Minhyong Kim, Sir Roger Penrose, Haijun Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang and Xiao-Gang Wen.

220pp Jan 2019978-981-3278-49-3 US$88 £75978-981-3278-50-9(pbk) US$36 £30

Harvard Lectures

Lectures of Sidney Coleman on Quantum Field TheoryForeword by David Kaiseredited by Bryan Gin-ge Chen (Leiden University, Netherlands), David Derbes (University of Chicago, USA), David Griffiths (Reed College, USA), Brian Hill (Saint Mary’s College of California, USA), Richard Sohn (Kronos, Inc., Lowell, USA) & Yuan-Sen Ting (Harvard)

“Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All of us who knew him became his students and disciples. Sidney’s

legendary course remains fresh and bracing, because he chose his topics with a sure feel for the essential, and treated them with elegant economy.”

Frank WilczekNobel Laureate in Physics 2004

“Sidney Coleman’s Field Theory lectures at Harvard were a staple of every particle physicist Harvard graduate student’s education ... the ideas — like all good physics concepts — have survived the decades beautifully. In a labor of love and educational devotion, a team of former students and TAs teamed up with professors and experts to share his legacy in perpetuity.”

Lisa RandallHarvard

1000pp Dec 2018978-981-4632-53-9 US$168 £150978-981-4635-50-9(pbk) US$88 £75

Classic Textbook

Advanced Quantum Mechanics2nd EditionBy (author): Freeman Dyson (IAS, Princeton) Translated by: David Derbes (Laboratory Schools, University of Chicago, USA)

“This book is likely to be of interest mainly to historians of science … one thing was done rather well was the relativistic treatment of the spectrum of the hydrogen atom, which is found

algebraically and, rather elegantly and efficiently. The treatment of fluctuations in fields had some nice points …”

CERN Courier

This edition has been printed on the 60th anniversary of the Cornell lectures, and includes a foreword by science historian David Kaiser, as well as notes from Dyson’s lectures at the Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics in 1954. The Les Houches lectures, described as a supplement to the original Cornell notes, provide a more detailed look at field theory, a careful and rigorous derivation of Fermi’s Golden Rule, and a masterful treatment of renormalization and Ward’s Identity.

316pp Dec 2012978-981-4383-40-0 US$98 £81978-981-4383-41-7(pbk) US$42 £35

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TEXTBOOKS

Principles of Quantum Computation and InformationA Comprehensive TextbookBy (author): Giuliano Benenti (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy), Giulio Casati (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy), Davide Rossini (Università di Pisa, Italy), Giuliano Strini (Università di Milano, Italy)

“This second edition of the textbook is a timely and very comprehensive update in a rapidly developing field, both in theory as well as in the experimental implementation of quantum information processing. The book provides a solid introduction into the field, a deeper insight in the formal description of quantum information as well as a well laid-out overview on several platforms for quantum simulation and quantum computation. All in all, a well-written and commendable textbook, which will prove very valuable both for the novices and the scholars in the fields of quantum computation and information.”

Rainer BlattUniversität Innsbruck and IQOQI Innsbruck, Austria

Readership: Upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in physics, mathematics and computer science.

650pp Feb 2019978-981-3237-22-3 US$158 £139

Accelerator Physics4th EditionBy: S Y Lee (Indiana University, USA)

“The large number of formulas and the excellent table of contents and index make the book a very useful addition to the library of a scientist or engineer already in the field.”

Physics TodayReadership: Accelerator, high-energy, nuclear, plasma and applied physicists.

568pp Nov 2018978-981-3274-67-9 US$138 £120978-981-3274-78-5(pbk) US$78 £70

Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics of Two-Level SystemsBy: James P Lavine (Georgetown University, USA)

This book is ideal for self-study by students or researchers starting on two-level systems. The detailed derivations and plots should ease readers into the study of two-level systems in a wide variety of settings. It builds upon an undergraduate course in quantum mechanics and is useful for readers

interested in magnetic resonance and quantum optics.

Readership: This is an undergraduate textbook in quantum mechanics suitable for students in physics, chemistry, optics, materials science, and electrical engineering.

256pp Jan 2019978-981-3272-58-3 US$98 £85

Application-Driven Quantum and Statistical PhysicsA Short Course for Future Scientists and Engineers Volume 1: FoundationsVolume 2: EquilibriumsBy: Jean-Michel Gillet (CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, France)

This series is an ideal introductory course for students who are looking for an alternative approach to the traditional academic treatment of quantum and statistical physics. It bridges the gap between other traditional books on this topic. This pedagogical approach relies heavily on scientific or technological applications from a wide range of fields. For every new concept introduced, an application is given to connect the theoretical results to a real-life situation.

Each volume features in-text exercises and detailed solutions, with easy-to-understand applications.

Volume 1:300pp Nov 2018978-1-78634-554-7 US$98 £86978-1-78634-690-2(pbk) US$45 £35

Volume 2:336pp Dec 2018978-1-78634-557-8 US$98 £86978-1-78634-703-9(pbk) US$45 £40

Introductory Quantum Physics and Relativity2nd EditionBy: Jacob Dunningham (University of Sussex, UK), Vlatko Vedral (Oxford)

The second edition is unique as an undergraduate textbook as it combines quantum physics and relativity at an introductory level. It expounds the foundations of these two subjects in detail, but also illustrates how they can be combined. It

discusses recent applications, but also exposes undergraduates to cutting-edge research topics, such as laser cooling, Bose–Einstein condensation, tunneling microscopes, lasers, nonlocality, and quantum teleportation.

Readership: Students taking undergraduate-level courses in quantum physics and relativity.

308pp May 2018978-981-3228-64-1 US$98 £86978-981-3230-04-0(pbk) US$48 £42

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Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle PhysicsRevised EditionBy: Martinus Veltman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA & NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

“I must congratulate you! The book you have written is truly a masterpiece. Not only have you explained the physics of the world of elementary particles to the young aspiring student, but you have made it available to the intelligent layman. On top of that you gave it the humanity it deserves;

reading this book brought me back to the most exciting period of my life in which every day brought a new discovery and we all fought for recognition. I can truly say that there is no book like this.”

Melvin SchwartzNobel laureate

Columbia University

“Veltman gives an excellent impression of how science works and how the desire to penetrate into the unknown is what fires the enthusiasm of scientists. He also manages to explain the most abstract intricacies of particle theory without using any mathematics whatsoever ... I can fully recommend this book to students and interested lay readers, who will gain a fascinating insight into the sub-nuclear world — from a theoretical experimental and personal point of view.”

Physics WorldReadership: Students, lay people and anyone interested in the world of elementary particles.

352pp May 2018978-981-3237-05-6 US$85 £75978-981-3237-49-0(pbk) US$35 £31

Beams and Accelerators with MATLABWith Companion Media PackBy: Dan Green (Fermilab)

The text in this book uses the suite of tools made available in the MATLAB package. Since many colleges have a site wide license, these tools are often freely available to students. The text is compact and focuses on graphical data display and dynamical “movies” as an aid to understanding specific systems. Hands on dialogue using command line

inputs, “apps”, and “live” tools are stressed. The extensive algebraic steps are subsumed into the associated scripts, where the symbolic math utilities spare the reader from the math manipulations.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and accelerator physics.

244pp May 2018978-981-3237-46-9 US$88 £77

Solid State Quantum Information — An Advanced TextbookQuantum Aspect of Many-Body SystemsBy: Wonmin Son (NUS, Singapore), Vlatko Vedral (Oxford)

This book has been written with an emphasis on recent developments in quantum many-body physics approaches. It starts by covering the classical theory of solids and electrons and describes how this classical model has failed. The authors then present the quantum mechanical model

of electrons in a lattice and they also discuss the theory of conductivity. Extensive reviews on the topic are provided in a compact manner so that any non-specialist can follow from the beginning.

Readership: Graduate students in physics and quantum information science.

212pp Apr 2018978-1-84816-764-3 US$88 £77

Concepts in Particle PhysicsA Concise Introduction to the Standard ModelBy: V Parameswaran Nair (City College of the City University of New York, USA)

This book is an attempt to put the key concepts of particle physics together in an appealing way, and yet give enough extra titbits for students seriously

considering graduate studies in particle physics. It starts with some recapitulation of relativity and quantum mechanics, and then builds on it to give both conceptual ideas regarding the Standard Model of particle physics as well as technical details. It is presented in an informal lecture style, and includes “remarks” sections where extra material, history, or technical details are presented for the interested student.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates studying particle physics.

328pp Jan 2018978-981-3227-55-2 US$98 £86

Supersymmetric Quantum MechanicsAn Introduction2nd EditionBy: Asim Gangopadhyaya (Loyola University Chicago, USA), Jeffry Mallow (Loyola University Chicago, USA), Constantin Rasinariu (Loyola University Chicago, USA)

Readership: Undergraduates, graduate and academics in physics.

296pp Dec 2017978-981-3221-03-1 US$98 £81978-981-3221-04-8(pbk) US$48 £40

The Standard Model and BeyondBy: J D Vergados (University of Ioannina, Greece)

This book contains a systematic and pedagogical exposition of recent developments in particle physics and cosmology. The Feynman diagrams are introduced and applied, at the level of first year graduate students.

Examples are the evaluation of the decay widths of the gauge bosons and some cross sections for interesting processes such as Rutherford scattering, electron-proton scattering (elementary proton or described by a form factor, and inelastic scattering) and Compton scattering.

It also discusses classic topics like the role of C, P, CP symmetries and the experimental methods needed to verify their conservation or violation.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates studying particle or astroparticle physics.

452pp Oct 2017978-981-3228-55-9 US$98 £86978-981-3275-77-5(pbk) US$58 £50

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Nuclear Radiation InteractionsBy: Sidney Yip (MIT)

This book is a treatment on the foundational knowledge of Nuclear Science and Engineering. It is an outgrowth of a first-year graduate-level course which the author has taught over the years in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. The emphasis of the book is on concepts in nuclear science and engineering in contrast to the traditional nuclear physics in a nuclear

engineering curriculum. The essential difference lies in the importance we give to the understanding of nuclear radiation and their interactions with matter. We see our students as nuclear engineers who work with all kinds of nuclear devices, from fission and fusion reactors to accelerators and detection systems. In all these complex systems, nuclear radiation play a central role. In generating nuclear radiation and using them for beneficial purposes, scientists and engineers must understand the properties of the radiation and how they interact with their surroundings. It is through the control of radiation interactions that we can develop new devices or optimize existing ones to make them more safe, powerful, durable, or economical. This is why radiation interaction is the essence of this book.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate or graduate students and researchers in nuclear physics.

386pp Dec 2014978-981-4368-07-0 US$118 £98978-981-3144-53-8(pbk) US$58 £48

Quantum MechanicsA Modern Development 2nd EditionBy: Leslie E Ballentine (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Review of the First Edition:

“One of the best aspects of this book is that there are many graphs showing experimental data taken from published research papers that reinforce the theory being presented. This is especially helpful due to the abstract and sometimes counterintuitive nature of quantum mechanics.

This advanced book can be used by graduate students or researchers who want to learn the fundamentals of QM plus more current research topics in quantum information theory.”

IEEE Electrical Insulation MagazineReadership: Graduate and senior undergraduate students, lecturers and researchers in quantum mechanics.

740pp Nov 2014978-981-4578-57-8 US$115 £95978-981-4578-58-5(pbk) US$75 £62

Quantum Computing from the Ground UpBy: Riley Tipton Perry (University of New South Wales, Australia)

“This book aims to explain these ideas, the building blocks and algorithms for quantum computing. It would be a great book for people with some higher education in physical sciences. I think that if you are a physics or mathematics or computer science student, struggling with a difficult higher level course or just interested in how it works, this book is one of the better choices.”

Contemporary PhysicsReadership: Advanced undergraduate students interested in quantum information.

256pp Sep 2012978-981-4412-11-7(pbk) US$49 £41

Six Quantum PiecesA First Course in Quantum PhysicsBy: Valerio Scarani (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Lynn Chua (NUS High School of Mathematics and Science, Singapore), Shi Yang Liu (NUS High School of Mathematics and Science, Singapore)

This book is an original first approach to quantum physics, the core of modern

physics. It combines the competence of a well-known researcher in quantum information science and the freshness in style of two high school students.

Readership: High school students, first year undergraduates, university professors/lecturers in physics, computer science and computer engineering.

160pp Sep 2010978-981-4327-53-4 US$51 £42978-981-4327-54-1(pbk) US$25 £21

Principles of Fusion EnergyAn Introduction to Fusion Energy for Students of Science and EngineeringBy: A A Harms (McMaster University, Canada), D R Kingdon (McMaster University, Canada), K F Schoepf (University of Innsbruck, Austria), G H Miley (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

“This textbook provides a useful summary of the relevant physics and an objective overview of the possible systems that could allow and contain thermonuclear fusion.”

CERN CourierReadership: University students and lecturers of senior undergraduates in courses dealing with fusion energy and systems.

308pp Jun 2000978-981-02-4335-7 US$63 £52

Basic PhysicsBy: Kenneth W Ford

Many teachers will value this book as a personal reference during a teaching year as various topics are addressed. Ford’s discussions of the history and meaning of topics from Newton’s mechanics to Feynman’s diagrams, although written first in 1968, have beautifully withstood the test of time

and are fully relevant to 21st-century physics teaching.

Readership: University students, course lecturers, teaching assistants, university curriculum planners.

852pp Jan 2017978-981-3208-00-1 US$130 £108978-981-3208-01-8(pbk) US$48 £40

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MORE NEW TITLES

Subatomic Physics3rd EditionBy: Ernest M Henley (University of Washington, USA), Alejandro Garcia (University of Washington, USA)

“Henley and García’s presentation and style hold the reader’s attention right from the start. The treatment is at just the right level to whet the reader’s appetite, slake their thirst for understanding and

assess the current ‘state of the art’ … this is a highly enlightening and up-to-date text, rather ambitious in its scope but successful in its aim to provide a comprehensive and comprehensible pedagogic overview of an exciting field of physics.”

Contemporary PhysicsReadership: Senior undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and advanced engineering students.

640pp Jul 2007978-981-270-056-8 US$121 £100978-981-270-057-5(pbk) US$73 £61

LiquidatorThe Chernobyl StoryBy: Sergei Belyakov (Theracross Technologies, Singapore)

Sergei Belyakov, then a PhD scientist, volunteered to become one of the many “nuclear jumpers” of that long-forgotten crew. This book sums up his recollections about that nuclear jumper stint. It is written not as a traditional

memoir, but as an alloy of personal views and feelings, templated over the information about the Chernobyl disaster from the official sources of those days. It will give the Western readers a chilling sense of the magnitude of the event that brought down the almighty Soviet Union.

Readership: People who are interested in the Chernobyl story.

188pp Dec 2018978-981-3227-41-5 US$48 £42978-981-3228-68-9(pbk) US$28 £25

Quantum LeapsHow Quantum Mechanics Took Over ScienceBy: Jeremy Bernstein

In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was “unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.” Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd years, one can find at least nine million

entries on Google under the rubric “quantum theory” — from poets and historians, as well as film critics and Buddhist monks. How did quantum mechanics enter general culture so pervasively?

Readership: For the general public. Rudimentary knowledge of science history, philosophy and physics is recommended.

260pp Feb 2019978-981-3272-70-5 US$50 £45978-981-3274-41-9(pbk) US$26 £25

Multiple Parton Interactions at the LHCEdited by: Paolo Bartalini (Central China Normal University, China), Jonathan Richard Gaunt (CERN, Switzerland)

Understanding the nature of the MPI is important in terms of searching for new physics in the products of the scatters, and also in its own right to gain a greater understanding of hadron structure. This book aims at providing a pedagogical introduction and a comprehensive review of different research lines linked by an involvement of

MPI phenomena. It is written by pioneers as well as young leading scientists, and reviews both experimental findings and theoretical developments, discussing also the remaining open issues.

Readership: This is a valuable reference for both graduate students and experienced researchers in particle physics.

472pp Jan 2019978-981-3227-75-0 US$158 £139

Effective Field Theories for Nuclei and Compact-Star MatterChiral Nuclear Dynamics (CND-III)By: Yong-Liang Ma (Jilin University, China), Mannque Rho (CEA Saclay, France)

This volume is devoted to exploring the intricate structure of compact-star matter inaccessible directly from QCD. It is principally anchored on hidden symmetries and topology presumed to be encoded in QCD. It differs from standard

effective field theory and energy density functional approaches in that it exploits renormalization-group flow in the complex “vacuum” sliding with density inferred from topology change identified as a manifestation of baryon-quark continuity in dense matter. It makes a variety of predictions that drastically differ from the conventional treatments that could be tested by upcoming terrestrial and astrophysical experiments.

This monograph recounts how to go, in one unique field theoretic formalism in terms of hadronic degrees of freedom, from finite nuclei to dense compact-star matter that could be explored in RIB-type machines in nuclear physics as well as in LIGO-type gravity waves in astrophysics.

Readership: Graduate students, researchers and professionals engaged in the fields of nuclear physics and particle physics.

380pp Dec 2018978-981-3273-31-3 US$138 £120

The World According to Quantum MechanicsWhy the Laws of Physics Make Perfect Sense After All2nd EditionBy: Ulrich Mohrhoff (Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education, India), Manu Jaiswal (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

Apart from providing a lucid introduction to the mathematical formalism and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, the authors explain why the laws of

physics have the form that they do. In addition, we present a new and unique look at the quantum world, steering clear of two common errors: the error of the ψ-ontologists, who reify a calculational tool; and the error of the anti-realists, for whom physical theories are simply devices for expressing regularities among observations.

Readership: Students, lecturers in university undergraduate physics courses related to quantum mechanics.

500pp Dec 2018978-981-3273-69-6 US$158 £140

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Crossing the Red LineThe Nuclear OptionBy: Gerald E Marsh

Unlike most books on these topics, this one includes, besides the technical component, the pol i cy aspec t s sur rounding nuclear weapons. It also shows how nuclear weapons can — and

have — stabilized conflicts, discussing why the concept of deterrence may not always be relied upon to prevent war. The origin of terrorism in the Middle East and the possibility of nuclear terrorism originating from that region are other topics of interest.

Readership: Students, researchers and policy makers interested in the proliferation of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology.

252pp Nov 2018978-981-3276-82-6 US$68 £60

Bestselling

Frontier Problems in Quantum MechanicsBy: Lee Chang (Tsinghua University, China), Molin Ge (Nankai University, China)

This book presents a practical perspec t ive of the s tudy of symmetry groups in Physics, i.e. emphasising the explicit methods

and algorithms useful for the practitioner and profusely illustrating by examples.

Readership: People working in physics, especially as a guide for graduate students and advanced undergraduates of related disciplines in the transition from course work to active research.

1092pp Oct 2018978-981-3146-84-6 US$198 £164

From Quarks to PionsChiral Symmetry and ConfinementBy: Michael Creutz (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)

This would be the first book to elaborate on the detailed connections between confinement and chiral symmetry, with an

emphasis on a unified treatment of the non-perturbative nature of these phenomena. As such, it should be a valuable title on any particle theorist’s bookshelf, containing extensive pedagogical material for scientists at the graduate level and above.

Readership: Advanced students and researchers in high-energy physics.

216pp Aug 2018978-981-3229-23-5 US$85 £75

Polarization Phenomena in PhysicsApplications to Nuclear ReactionsBy: Makoto Tanifuji (Hosei University, Japan)

This book allows the reader to understand the fundamentals of polarization phenomena in a general spin system, showing the polarizations to be indispensable information source of spin-dependent interactions.

Readership: Researchers working with polarization phenomena and spin physics in both nuclear and particle physics.

156pp Jun 2018978-981-3230-88-0 US$58 £50

Schrödinger’s MechanicsInterpretationBy: David B Cook (University of Sheffield, UK)

The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been in dispute for nearly a century with no sign of a resolution. Using a careful examination of the relationship between the final form of classical particle mechanics (the Hamilton–Jacobi Equation) and Schrödinger’s mechanics, this book presents a coherent way of addressing the problems and paradoxes that emerge through conventional interpretations.

Readership: Physicists, chemists, philosophers of science, anyone with an interest in physical science.

196pp May 2018978-1-78634-490-8 US$78 £69

International Journal of Modern Physics A (IJMPA)Modern Physics Letters A (MPLA)Particles and Fields ∙ Gravitation ∙ Cosmology ∙ Astrophysics ∙ Nuclear Physics ∙ Accelerator physics ∙ Quantum Information

Recent Special Issue

Particles and CosmologyEditor: H. Fritzsch (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

IJMPA Vol. 33, No. 31 (10 November 2018)

This special issue presents selected contributions from the Conference on Particles and Cosmology (NTU, Singapore, 5–9 March 2018).

Featured Articles

Early Examples of Topological Concepts in PhysicsC. N. Yang (Tsinghua University)

MPLA Vol. 33, No. 22, 1830009 (2018)

Complex Geometry of Nuclei and AtomsM. F. Atiyah (University of Edinburgh) and N. S. Manton (University of Cambridge)

IJMPA Vol. 33, No. 24, 1830022 (2018)

About the journals

Started in 1986, IJMPA and MPLA have gained international repute as high-quality scientific journals. They consist of important review articles and original papers covering the latest research developments in Particles and Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. The journals also feature articles of longstanding value and importance which can be vital to research into new unexplored areas. MPLA has now expanded its scope to cover letters and brief reviews of Astrophysics, Accelerator Physics, and Quantum Information.

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Basics of Transport and Storage of Radioactive MaterialsEdited by: Toshiari Saegusa (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEP), Japan), Gilles Sert (Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN), France), Holger Völzke (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM), Germany), Frank Wille (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM), Germany)

This book overviews current available information in the literature. It also covers advanced technology on similar subjects in the literature. On top of that, new and valuable subjects are introduced for readers to grasp the wide spectrum of the safe and secure transport and storage technology. The contents are arranged and divided into three sections, I: Safety of Transport, II: Safety of Storage, III: Security of Transport and Storage.

Readership: Advanced graduate students and researchers in the field of nuclear engineering and nuclear waste management.

400pp May 2018978-981-3234-03-1 US$138 £121

The State of the Art of Neutrino PhysicsA Tutorial for Graduate Students and Young ResearchersEdited by: Antonio Ereditato (University of Bern, Switzerland)

The aim of the book is to provide graduate students and young researchers a comprehensive tutorial in modern neutrino physics, specially tailored with emphasis on the educational

aspects. It provides an overview of the basics and of recent achievements in the field, from both experimental and theoretical points of view.

Readership: Students and researchers interested in high energy physics and/or astrophysics.

580pp May 2018978-981-3226-08-1 US$168 £148

The Geometry of Quantum PotentialEntropic Information of the VacuumBy: Davide Fiscaletti (SpaceLife Institute, Italy)

This book makes a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of some of the most significant elements and results about the geometrodynamic picture determined by the quantum potential in various contexts. Above all, the book explores the perspectives about the fundamental arena

subtended by the quantum potential, the link between the geometry associated to the quantum potential and a fundamental quantum vacuum.

Readership: Researchers interested in the link between the geometrodynamic action of the quantum potential and a fundamental quantum vacuum, in the different contexts of quantum physics.

344pp Apr 2018978-981-3227-97-2 US$118 £104

Problems and Solutions in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information4th EditionBy: Willi-Hans Steeb (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), Yorick Hardy (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

The topics range in difficulty from elementary to advanced. Almost all problems are solved in detail and most of the problems are self-contained. Each chapter also contains supplementary problems to challenge the reader. Programming problems with Maxima and Symbolic C++ implementations are also provided.

Readership: Graduates and researchers in theoretical and mathematical physics.

556pp Apr 2018978-981-3238-40-4 US$118 £104978-981-3239-28-9(pbk) US$58 £51

An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics for the Non-SpecialistBy: Gerald E Marsh

This book takes the reader from some elementary ideas about groups to the essence of the Standard Model of particle physics along a relatively straight and intuitive path. The idea is to give an Olympian view of this evolution, one that is often missing

when absorbing the detailed subject matter of the Standard Model as presented in an historical approach to the subject.

Readership: Undergraduate students and academics interested in the Standard Model.

164pp Nov 2017978-981-3232-58-7 US$48 £42

Universal MeasurementsHow to Free Three Birds in One MoveBy: Diederik Aerts (Brussels Free University, Belgium), Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi (Laboratorio di Autoricerca di Base, Switzerland)

This is a book presenting to a wide audience of readers, ranging from fans of science to professional researchers, some of the authors’ recent discoveries in three distinct, but intimately related domains: probability theory (Bertrand’s

paradox), observation in physics (the measurement problem) and the modeling of experiments in psychology (quantum cognition). In all three of these domains of investigation, and the associated problems, the authors explain how to advantageously use the key notion of universal measurement, which constitutes the fil rouge of the whole text.

Readership: University students and science enthusiasts interested in quantum mechanics or quantum cognition.

148pp May 2017978-981-3220-15-7 US$68 £56978-981-3220-16-4(pbk) US$28 £23

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