Canberra International Physics Summer Schools – serie

This Proceedings contains lectures given at the third annual Physics Summer School held at The Australian National University. The courses were planned to provide a balanced overview of low, intermediate and high energy nuclear and particle physics for both theorists and experimentalists. The lectures start at an introductory level and build up to a stage where the reader can appreciate the challenges of current research fields.

Articles in this collection discuss basic concepts and modern developments in the field. Suitable for both theorists and experimentalists.

The articles discuss basic concepts and modern developments in atomic and molecular physics and quantum optics. Suitable for both theorists and experimentalists.

This proceedings volume aims to expose graduate students to the basic ideas of field theory and statistical mechanics and to give them an understanding and appreciation of current topical research.

The Proceedings contain lectures given at the 8th annual Physics Summer School held at The Australian National University. The articles discuss the basic concepts and modern developments in cosmology, including the impact of nuclear and particle physics. They are suitable for both theorists and experimentalists.

Computational Physics is a vigorous subject due to its interdisciplinary nature. In this spirit, the volume brings together lecture notes from leading computational physicists in quite disparate areas of research interest. The resulting collection of essays should be a valuable resource in an area where there are few standard textbooks at the present time.The volume is made up of lecture notes and introductory articles representative of the Summer School on Computational Physics which was held at the Australian National University in 1996. Several of the authors are world-renowned for their contributions to this new — and rapidly evolving — area, and this volume will be a useful supplement to textbooks at the graduate, advanced undergraduate, and professional levels.

This book contains lectures delivered at the 10th Physics Summer School on “Physics of Novel Materials” at Australian National University by internationally reputed scientists. It covers a wide variety of materials: semiconductors, superconductors, polymers, zeolites, clusters and nanostructures, and transport in novel materials. It is hard to find theoretical and experimental aspects of such diverse topics on novel materials in a single volume.

This proceedings volume presents current developments in nuclear physics which are driven by new experimental facilities (e.g. radioactive ion beams, CEBAF, RHIC), as well as by cross-fertilization with astrophysics and particle physics. It starts at an introductory level and builds up to a stage where the reader can appreciate the challenges of current research fields. It is suitable for both theorists and experimentalists.

Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases is an exciting new field of interdisciplinary physics. The eight chapters in this volume introduce its theoretical and experimental foundations. The authors are lucid expositors who have also made outstanding contributions to the field. They include theorists Tony Leggett, Allan Griffin and Keith Burnett, and Nobel-Prize-winning experimentalist Bill Phillips. In addition to the introductory material, there are articles treating topics at the forefront of research, such as experimental quantum phase engineering of condensates, the “superchemistry” of interacting atomic and molecular condensates, and atom laser theory.