Note: Intro -- PERSPECTIVES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS -- PERSPECTIVES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 MATTER-DENSITY DISTRIBUTION IN DEUTERON AND DIFFRACTION DEUTERON-NUCLEUS INTERACTION -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.DeuteronWaveFunctionsandFormFactors -- 3.DifferentialCrossSectionofElasticScattering -- 4.IntegratedCrossSectionsofVariousProcessesofDiffractionDeuteron-NucleusInteraction -- 5.Discussion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 2 STUDY OF AMPLIFICATION WITHOUT INVERSION IN H2 MOLECULE: EFFECT OF HOMOGENEOUS AND INHOMOGENEOUS BROADENING IN THREE LEVEL L SYSTEM CONSIDERING BIDIRECTIONAL PUMPING -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Theory -- 3.Schemes -- 4.ResultsandDiscussions -- 4.1.GainandAbsorptionfortheClosedSystemConsideringUnidirectionalPumping -- 4.2.GainandAbsorptionfortheClosedSystemConsideringBidirectionalPumping -- 4.3.GainProfileConsideringTotalSpontaneousDecayWidth -- 4.4.GainProfileConsideringDopplerBroadening -- 5.Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 3 AMPLIFICATION WITHOUT INVERSION AND ABSORPTION WITH INVERSION IN H2 MOLECULES: A DRESSED-STATE PICTURE OF A COHERENTLY COUPLED THREE LEVEL L SYSTEM -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Theory -- 2.1.HamiltonianAndMasterEquation -- 2.2.DressedStates -- 2.3.DerivationoftheDressed-StateDensityMatrixElementsinTermsoftheBare-StateDensityMatrixElementsandVice-versa -- 2.4.EquationofMotionfortheDensity-MatrixElementsintheDressed-StateBasis -- 3.Schemes -- 4.ResultsandDiscussions -- 4.1.TemporalDependenceofthePopulationsandCoherencesintheDressed-StateBasis -- 4.2.TemporalDependenceofthePopulationsandCoherencesintheDressed-StateBasisConsideringTotalSpontaneousDecayWidthandDopplerDecayWidth. , 4.3.DependenceofDressedStatePopulationsandCoherencesontheRelativeMagnitudeofProbeFieldandCoherentFieldRabiFrequencies -- 5.Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 4 SPECTRA AND BOUND STATES OF THE ENERGY OPERATOR OF A TWO-MAGNON SYSTEM IN A NON-HEISENBERG FERROMAGNET WITH SPIN S=3/2 AND NEAREST-NEIGHBOR INTERACTIONS -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 5 MODEL-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF THE GROWTH PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR A SILICON SHEET GROWN IN A VACUUM BY THE EDGE-DEFINED FILM-FED GROWTH METHOD -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATHEMATICAL MODEL -- 3. NUMERICAL RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 FIBRE BUNDLE FORMULATION OF RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS II: COVARIANT APPROACH -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Diracequation -- 3.Otherrelativisticwaveequations -- 4.Propagatorsandevolutiontransportsoroperators -- 4.1.Greenfunctions(review) -- 4.2.Nonrelativisticcase(Schr¨odingerequation)4 -- 4.3.Diracequation -- 4.4.Klein-Gordonequation -- 5.Conclusion -- AppendixA.Lineartransportsalongmapsinfibrebundles -- AppendixB.Matrixoperators -- References -- Chapter 7 ON THE INDUCTION PERIOD OF LASER-DRIVEN THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- KEY EQUATIONS AND RELATED EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 DISPERSION PROPERTIES OF NANO-SCALE SYSTEMS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE SELF-CONSISTENT EQUATION AND THE EFFECTIVE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF A NANO-PARTICLE -- 3. DISSIPATIVE AND DISPERSIVE PROPERTIES OF NANO-PARTICLES -- 4. NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS AND DISCUSSION -- a) ellipsoidal particles -- b) parallelepiped particles -- c) two spherical particles -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 AN ALGORITHM OF LOCAL HIDDEN VARIABLES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PROPOSED ALGORITHM -- 3. EVALUATION -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 10 SUPERCONDUCTING STATE PARAMETERS OF 3D-TRANSITION METALS BINARY ALLOYS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHOD OF COMPUTATION -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 SUPERCONDUCTING STATE PARAMETERS OF BE-ZR GLASSY ALLOYS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS USING ACOUSTIC SPECTRAL FINITE ELEMENT METHODS -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.WeakFormulationfortheSpectralFiniteElement -- 2.1.ApproximationFunctions -- 3.WaveInfluenceFunctions& -- theDynamicStiffnessMatrix -- 4.ExamplesforTwo-DimensionalSpectralFiniteElements -- 4.1.TheoryforTransmissionLoss -- 4.2.Example1.AbsorbingBoundaryMaterialLiningSilencerChamber -- 4.3.Example2.DissipativeFibrousMaterialChambers -- 5.ResultsfromaThree-DimensionalAnalysis -- 5.1.DispersionRelationsforThree-DimensionalExamples -- 5.2.SolutionsforEllipticCylinderSilencerProblem -- 6.Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13 FRACTIONAL OSCILLATOR: PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.FractionalDerivative -- 2.1.Non-uniformandUniform-Expansion -- 3.FractionalOscillation -- 3.1.FractionalOscillatoraMathematicalApproach -- 3.2.FractionalGeneralizationofNewton'sLaw -- CaseA -- CaseB -- 4.DampingCharactristicsoftheFractionalOscillator -- 4.1.LimitingCaseofa=2−e -- 5.HamiltonianofFractionalOscillator -- 6.Non-casualFractionalOscillator -- 7.Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 CHARGE-BASED ELECTRONICS IS UNDER CONTROL - TECHNOLOGY WELCOMES ORBITRONICS FOR THIS MILLENIUM THOUGH SPINTRONICS IS NOT YET ESTABLISHED -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15 THERMODYNAMICS OF LIQUID METALS: A VARIATIONAL APPROACH -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. , CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16 DOMINANT FEATURES OF INTERFACES IN NANOMETRIC DIELECTRICS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. POINT DEFECT CHEMISTRY AT THE INTERFACE -- 3. SEGREGATION OF INTERFACIAL CHARGED SPECIES -- 4. SIMULATION OF DIFFUSE DOUBLE LAYER WITH THE INTERFACE -- 5. FIELD DEPENDENT DIELECTRIC BEHAVIOR AT THE INTERFACE -- 6. ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING: INTERFACE AS PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER -- 7. DISCUSSION -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17 ON MATRIX REPRESENTATIONS OF DEFORMED LIE ALGEBRAS -- Abstract -- 1.IntroductionandPreliminaries -- 2.r6=0andP(x)isaNonzeroPolynomial -- 3.r=0andP(x)isaNonzeroPolynomial -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 18 AN OSCILLATING, HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC UNIVERSE FROM SCALAR-TENSOR GRAVITY -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.TheLinearizedScalar-TensorGravity -- 3.AnOscillatingCosmology -- 4.ConsistencewithObservations:i)TheHubbleLaw -- 5.ConsistencewithObservations:ii)TheCosmologicalRedshift -- 6.Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 19 PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH TO THE INTERACTION OF ONE ACTIVE ELECTRON ATOMS WITH ULTRASHORT SQUEEZED PULSES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SYSTEM HAMILTONIAN AND PATH INTEGRATION -- 3. SIGN SOLVED PROPAGATOR -- 4. APPLICATION TO HYDROGEN -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 20 A SCHEME FOR REMOTE PREPARATION OF MULTIPARTICLE ENTANGLED STATES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. REMOTE PREPARATION OF MULTIPARTICLE ENTANGLED STATES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Note: Intro -- BULK METALLIC GLASSES -- BULK METALLIC GLASSES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 SUPERCONDUCTING STATE PARAMETERS OF BULK METALLIC GLASSES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 STUDY OF VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF PD77.5SI16.5CU6 BULK METALLIC GLASS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 STUDY OF VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF BINARY MG70ZN30 METALLIC GLASS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 STUDY OF VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF FE80B14SI6 BULK METALLIC GLASS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 STUDY OF VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF FE80B10SI10 BULK METALLIC GLASS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 COMPUTATION OF PHONON DISPERSION CURVES OF CA70MG30 METALLIC GLASS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 STUDY OF VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF FE40NI40B20 BULK METALLIC GLASS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 STUDY OF VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF NI80B10SI20 BULK METALLIC GLASS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 STUDY OF VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF FE60NI20B10SI10 BULK METALLIC GLASS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents in Brief -- Table of Contents -- Setting the Stage and Modus Operandi: "The Making of the Book" -- Preface -- Authors -- I Fundamentals -- 1 Time scales -- 1.1 Units of time and relation between energy and time -- 1.2 Time axis -- 1.3 How to describe events in space-time coordinates -- 1.4 Time scale in the hydrogen atom -- 1.5 Time scale for photoisomerization -- 1.6 Summary -- 1.7 Exercises -- 2 Ultrafast phenomena: Experimental -- 2.1 Introduction to the laser and how it works -- 2.1.1 Standing waves -- 2.1.2 Cavity -- 2.1.3 Stimulated emission and single wavelength selection -- 2.2 Short summary of nonlinear optics under cw laser excitation -- 2.3 Magneto-optics -- 2.4 Development of ultrafast lasers: Major breakthrough with the Ti-Sapphire laser -- 2.4.1 Phase alignment and mode-locking -- 2.4.2 Necessity of many modes and broad bandwidth -- 2.4.3 Emergence of ultrafast pulses from mode-locking -- 2.5 How to access the ultrafast time scale -- 2.6 Time-resolved pump-probe experiments -- 2.6.1 Basic principles -- 2.6.2 Nitty-gritties and theory behind the processes -- 2.7 Photoisomerization in bacteriorhodopsin -- 2.8 Femtochemistry -- 2.9 Metals, semiconductors and superconductors -- 2.10 Femtomagnetism -- 2.11 High-order harmonic generation and attosecond physics -- 2.12 Exercises -- 3 Theoretical background -- 3.1 Density functional theory -- 3.1.1 Hohenberg-Kohn theorem -- 3.1.2 Kohn-Sham equation -- 3.2 Time-dependent density functional theory -- 3.2.1 Solving the Kohn-Sham equation -- 3.2.2 Example: Many-electron atoms -- 3.2.3 Adiabatic approximation -- 3.2.4 Example: TDDFT of atoms in a linearly-polarized field -- 3.3 Quantum chemistry tools -- 3.3.1 Basis functions -- 3.3.2 Hartree-Fock approximation -- 3.3.3 Configuration interaction method. , 3.3.4 Coupled-cluster method -- 3.4 Solid state physics: Essentials -- 3.4.1 Crystal structure = Bravais lattice + basis -- 3.4.2 Band structure: How electronic energy disperses with crystal momentum -- 3.5 Two special features in ultrafast dynamics -- 3.5.1 Spin-orbit coupling -- 3.5.2 Interaction between laser radiation and matter -- 3.5.3 Further notes on the vector potential -- 3.6 Rotation matrices for spins -- 3.7 Software packages -- 3.8 Exercises -- II Applications -- 4 High-harmonic generation -- 4.1 Brief history and key features of high-harmonic generation -- 4.2 Working principles of HHG -- 4.2.1 Laser electric field strength and Coulomb potential in an atom -- 4.2.2 Escaping the Coulomb potential -- 4.2.3 Ponderomotive energy -- 4.2.4 Corkum's theory: Origin of the cutoff energy of Ip + 3.17Up -- 4.3 Applications -- 4.3.1 Applications to hydrogen and neon atoms -- 4.3.2 Applications to C60 -- 4.3.2.1 Model -- 4.3.2.2 Time-dependent Liouville equation -- 4.3.2.3 Power spectrum -- 4.4 Experimental demonstration of high-harmonic generation in C60 -- 4.5 High-harmonic generation in solids -- 4.5.1 Graphene -- 4.5.2 Going to magnets -- 4.5.3 Simple picture of HHG in solids -- 4.6 Exercises -- 5 Femtomagnetism -- 5.1 History of femtomagnetism -- 5.2 Magnetic materials -- 5.2.1 General properties -- 5.2.2 Element ferromagnets and microscopic interactions -- 5.3 Time scale of laser-induced demagnetization -- 5.3.1 Time scale for electron response -- 5.3.2 Time scale for spin response -- 5.3.3 Time scale of phonon excitation -- 5.3.4 Demagnetization time -- 5.4 Sample experimental results -- 5.4.1 Fe, Ni and permalloy -- 5.4.2 Half-metallic and Heusler compounds -- 5.4.3 Short experimental summary -- 5.5 Mechanisms still under debate -- 5.5.1 Spin-orbit coupling model -- 5.5.2 Hubbard model -- 5.5.3 Heisenberg model. , 5.5.4 Time-dependent Liouville density functional theory -- 5.5.5 Time-dependent magneto-optics theory -- 5.6 Exercises -- 6 All-optical spin switching -- 6.1 Basic optics -- 6.2 Background -- 6.2.1 Ferrimagnets and magneto-optical recording -- 6.2.2 Experimental discovery -- 6.3 Key ingredients of all-optical spin switching -- 6.3.1 Composition and compensation temperature -- 6.3.2 Laser parameters -- 6.3.3 New materials -- 6.4 Theory -- 6.4.1 Birth of the first single spin switching model -- 6.4.2 Numerical solutions and MatLab codes -- 6.4.3 Reversing millions of spins -- 6.4.4 Importance of spin moments -- 6.5 Exercises -- 7 Spin manipulations in magnetic nanostructures -- 7.1 Computer memory and magnetic storage -- 7.1.1 Giant magneto-resistance -- 7.1.2 Magneto-optical recording technology -- 7.1.3 Emergence of ultrafast demagnetization -- 7.2 Experimental discovery -- 7.2.1 Experiments in permalloy -- 7.2.2 Coherent spin manipulation in NiO -- 7.3 Spin precession -- 7.4 Rabi oscillation -- 7.5 Spin-orbit coupling in an atom -- 7.6 Magnetic resonance in NiO clusters -- 7.7 Exercises -- 8 Magnetic molecules and magnetic logic -- 8.1 Λ processes in molecular systems -- 8.1.1 Degenerate case -- 8.1.2 Chirped lasers -- 8.1.3 Spectral broadening of the laser pulse -- 8.2 A closer look into electronic correlations -- 8.2.1 Correlations and interatomic distances -- 8.2.2 Correlations and ultrafast spin dynamics -- 8.3 Molecular vibrations -- 8.3.1 Electron-vibron coupling -- 8.3.2 Molecular vibrations and spin dynamics -- 8.3.3 Geometry change as a tool: Mechanical strain -- 8.4 Magnetic logic on molecules -- 8.4.1 How many magnetic centers do we need? -- 8.4.2 The Ni3Na2 paradigm -- 8.4.3 Elementary laser-induced processes -- 8.4.4 Spin transferability -- 8.4.5 Mapping quantum dynamics onto classical trajectories -- 8.4.6 Higher multiplicities. , 8.4.7 More complicated M and nonlinear M processes -- 8.5 First steps towards magnetic logic gates -- 8.5.1 Boolean logic on Ni3Na2: NAND gate -- 8.5.2 ERASE functionality -- 8.5.2.1 Laser chirp -- 8.5.2.2 Quantum interferences -- 8.5.3 Charge-spin gearbox -- 8.6 Concluding remarks -- 8.7 Exercises -- Appendix A Appendices -- A.1 KLI approximation -- A.2 LDA: local density approximation -- A.3 Self-interaction corrected LDA -- A.4 BLYP approximation -- A.5 Electric dipole, magnetic-dipole and other higher-order interactions -- A.6 Code to generate ultrafast pulses -- A.7 Code to generate figures in HHG -- A.8 Code to compute the cutoff energy in HHG -- A.9 Code to compute the C60 structure -- A.10 Genetic algorithm example -- A.11 Special crystal momentum points and lines -- Bibliography -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 From the Chemical System to the Atomic Nucleus -- 1.1 Chemical System -- 1.2 Molecules -- 1.3 Atoms -- 1.4 Atomic and Mass Numbers, Isotopes -- Chapter 2 Stoichiometry -- 2.1 Fundamental Definitions -- 2.2 Elementary Stoichiometric Calculations -- 2.3 Concentration of Solutions -- Chapter 3 Nucleus and Radioactivity -- 3.1 Nucleus -- 3.2 Natural Radioactivity -- 3.3 Kinetics of Radioactive Decay -- 3.4 Electronuclear Energy -- Chapter 4 Interlude of Physics I: Quantum Mechanics -- 4.1 Physical Quantities -- 4.2 Classical Physics: Matter and Radiation -- 4.2.1 Crisis of Classical Physics -- 4.2.2 A Solid Foundation: The Conservation Theorems -- 4.3 Random Variables -- 4.4 Quantum Mechanics -- 4.4.1 Fundamental Postulate -- 4.4.2 Consequences of the Fundamental Postulate -- 4.4.2.1 Eigenvalue Equations -- 4.4.2.2 Position Observable -- 4.4.2.3 Linear Momentum Observable -- 4.4.2.4 Energy and the Schrödinger Equation -- 4.4.2.5 Uncertainty Principle -- 4.4.2.6 Stationary Schrödinger Equation -- 4.4.2.7 Particle in a Potential -- 4.4.2.8 Angular Momentum Observable -- 4.4.2.9 Orbital Angular Momentum -- 4.4.2.10 Spin -- 4.4.2.11 Pauli Exclusion Principle -- 4.4.3 Examples -- 4.4.3.1 Free Particle -- 4.4.3.2 Particle in a Box -- 4.4.3.3 Harmonic Oscillator -- 4.4.3.4 Rigid Rotator -- 4.4.3.5 Particle in a Central Potential -- 4.4.4 Approximation Methods -- 4.4.4.1 Perturbation Method -- 4.4.4.2 Variational Method -- Chapter 5 Atoms and the Periodic Table of the Elements -- 5.1 Hydrogen Atom -- 5.2 Many-Electron Atoms -- 5.3 Periodic Table of the Elements -- Chapter 6 Chemical Bond I: Lewis Scheme -- 6.1 Born-Oppenheimer Approximation -- 6.2 Lewis Structures -- 6.2.1 Diatomic Molecules -- 6.2.2 Electronegativity. , 6.2.3 Polyatomic Molecules -- 6.2.4 Examples -- Chapter 7 Chemical Bond II: Molecular Orbitals -- 7.1 H[sub(2)]+ Molecular Ion -- 7.2 Diatomic Molecules -- 7.2.1 H[sub(2)] Molecule -- 7.2.2 Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules -- 7.2.3 Heteronuclear Diatomic Molecules -- 7.3 Polyatomic Molecules -- 7.3.1 Walsh Diagrams -- 7.4 Photoelectron Spectroscopy -- 7.5 Hybridization -- 7.6 Valence Bond Method -- 7.7 Molecules with Conjugated Double Bonds -- Chapter 8 Chemical Bond III: Complements -- 8.1 Diatomic Molecules: Nuclei Dynamics -- 8.2 Diatomic Molecules: Roto-Vibrational Spectroscopy -- 8.2.1 Microwave Spectroscopy -- 8.2.2 IR Spectroscopy -- 8.2.3 Selection Rules -- 8.3 Polyatomic Molecules -- 8.4 Crystals -- 8.4.1 Chemical Bond in Solids -- 8.4.2 Crystal Structure -- Chapter 9 Interlude of Physics II: Thermodynamics -- 9.1 Thermodynamic State -- 9.2 Internal Energy -- 9.3 Processes in Isolated Systems -- 9.4 Entropy -- 9.4.1 Origin of Entropy -- 9.4.2 Meaning of Entropy -- 9.4.3 Spontaneous Evolution in Processes within Isolated Systems -- 9.4.4 Entropy and Internal Energy -- 9.5 Extensive and Intensive Quantities -- 9.5.1 Temperature, Pressure, and Chemical Potential -- 9.6 Thermodynamic Potentials -- 9.6.1 Legendre Transformations -- 9.6.2 Enthalpy, Helmholtz Free Energy, and Gibbs Free Energy -- 9.7 Third Principle of Thermodynamics -- 9.8 Work and Heat -- 9.9 Response Functions -- 9.9.1 Energy Equipartition Theorem -- 9.9.2 Le Chatelier's Principle -- Chapter 10 Phase Equilibria -- 10.1 One-Component Systems -- 10.1.1 Ideal Gas -- 10.1.2 Real Gases -- 10.1.2.1 Lever Rule -- 10.1.2.2 Andrews Bell -- 10.1.2.3 Compressibility Factor -- 10.1.2.4 Virial Equation -- 10.1.2.5 Van der Waals Equation -- 10.1.2.6 Law of Corresponding States -- 10.1.2.7 Maxwell Construction -- 10.1.3 Phase Diagrams on the T-p Plane -- 10.1.3.1 Clausius-Clapeyron Equation. , 10.1.4 Phase Transitions -- 10.2 Phase Rule -- 10.3 Mixture of Ideal Gases -- 10.4 Two-Component Systems -- 10.4.1 Effects on the Solute: Henry's Law and Solubility -- 10.4.2 Effects on the Solvent: Colligative Properties -- 10.4.2.1 The Raoult Law -- 10.4.2.2 Ebullioscopy and Cryoscopy -- 10.4.2.3 Osmosis -- 10.4.3 Binary-System Phase Diagram -- 10.4.3.1 Liquid-Vapor Equilibria -- 10.4.3.2 Liquid-Solid Equilibria -- Chapter 11 Chemical Equilibrium -- 11.1 Chemical Equilibrium Among Ideal Gases -- 11.1.1 Other Forms of Equilibrium Constants -- 11.2 Influence of External Factors on a Reaction Equilibrium -- 11.3 Tables of Thermochemical Data -- 11.4 Problems -- 11.5 Chemical Equilibrium Among Condensed Phases and Ideal Gases -- 11.6 Chemical Equilibrium Among Real Gases -- 11.7 Chemical Equilibrium in Solution -- Chapter 12 Ionic Equilibria in Aqueous Solutions -- 12.1 Autoprotolysis of Water -- 12.2 Acids and Bases -- 12.3 pH in Various Circumstances -- 12.3.1 Strong Acids and Bases -- 12.3.2 Remarks -- 12.3.3 Weak Acids and Bases -- 12.3.4 Salts Hydrolysis -- 12.3.5 Dissociation Degree and Hydrolysis Degree -- 12.3.6 Diprotic Acids -- 12.3.7 Ampholytes -- 12.4 Buffers -- 12.5 Acid-Base Titrations -- 12.5.1 Indicators -- 12.6 Insoluble Salts -- Chapter 13 Chemical Kinetics -- 13.1 Descriptive Kinetics -- 13.1.1 Simple Kinetics, Order of Reaction -- 13.1.1.1 Zeroth-order Reactions -- 13.1.1.2 First-order Reactions -- 13.1.1.3 Second-order Reactions -- 13.1.2 Parallel Reactions -- 13.1.3 Consecutive Reactions, Determining Step -- 13.1.3.1 Stationary State, Induction Time -- 13.1.4 Opposite Reactions -- 13.2 Reaction Mechanisms, Molecularity -- 13.2.1 Chain Reactions -- 13.2.2 Unimolecular Reactions -- 13.3 Effects of Temperature, Arrhenius Equation -- 13.4 Molecular Interpretation of Reactive Processes -- 13.5 Enzyme Catalysis. , Chapter 14 Electrochemistry -- 14.1 Redox Reactions -- 14.1.1 Oxidation Number -- 14.1.2 Balancing Redox Reactions -- 14.2 Galvanic Cell -- 14.2.1 Thermodynamics of the Galvanic Cell -- 14.3 Electrochemical Series -- 14.4 Applications -- 14.5 Problems -- 14.6 Electrolysis -- Appendix A: A Concise Guide to the Vocabulary of Chemistry -- A.1 Inorganic Compounds -- A.2 Organic Compounds: Hydrocarbons -- A.3 Isomerism -- A.4 Hydrocarbons: Continuation -- A.5 Halide Compounds (Functional Group -X, Halogen) -- A.6 Alcohols, Glycols, Phenols (Functional Group -OH, Hydroxyl) -- A.7 Ethers, Epoxides (Functional Group -OR, Alkoxy Group) -- A.8 Amines (Functional Group NH[sub(2)], -NHR, -NRR') -- A.9 Aldehydes, Ketones -- A.10 Carboxylic Acids (Carboxylic Functional Group, -COOH -- A.11 Acyl Halides, Anhydrides, Esters, Amides -- A.12 Carbohydrates -- Appendix B: Tables -- Index.

Note: Intro -- THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND NONLINEAR OPTICS THEORIES AND MODELS -- THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND NONLINEAR OPTICS THEORIES AND MODELS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter1MOMENTUMPICTUREOFMOTIONINLAGRANGIANQUANTUMFIELDTHEORY -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.LagrangianFormalism -- 3.HeisenbergRelations -- 4.TheMomentumPictureofMotion -- 5.GeneralAspectsofLagrangianFormalisminMomentumPicture -- 6.OntheMomentumRepresentationandParticleInterpretation -- 7.TheMomentumPictureas4-DimensionalAnalogueoftheSchr¨odingerOne -- 8.Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter2THEDYNAMICSOFAIIASTRINGTHEORYD0-BRANEPROBINGAFOURDIMENSIONALBLACKHOLE -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.TheEffectiveActionofaD0-braneProbinga4DBlackHole -- 3.TheDynamicsofaIIAD0-BraneProbinga4DBlackHole -- 4.Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter3THESEIBERG-WITTENMAPINNONCOMMUTATIVEFIELDTHEORY:ANALTERNATIVEINTERPRETATION -- Abstract -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter4HIGHERDIMENSIONALMODELSPACESANDDEFECTS -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.HigherDimensionalModelSpaces -- 3.DislocationswithoutDisclinations:TheClassof"Screw-Like"Defects -- 4.Screw-LikeDislocationswithCompactDislocationDensities -- 5.Screw-LikeDislocationswithTerminations -- 6.DeterminationoftheFunctionM(R)byUseofGaugeFieldTheory -- 7.AClassofStatesofMaterialBodieswithNontrivialDisclinations -- References -- Chapter5ONE-MAGNONSYSTEMSINANANISOTROPICNON-HEISENBERGFERROMAGNETICIMPURITYMODEL -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter6GROUNDSTATEMASSSPECTRAOFLOWLYINGBARYONSINANEQUALLYMIXEDSCALARANDVECTORPOTENTIALMODEL -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.BasicFramework -- 3.EnergyCorrectionstoBaryonMasses -- A.CentreofMassCorrection -- B.One-gluon-exchangeCorrection -- C.GoldstoneBosonExchangeCorrection -- 4.ResultsandDiscussion -- Acknowledgments -- References. , Chapter 7 BELL'S THEOREM REFUTED WITH A KOLMOGOROVIAN COUNTEREXAMPLE -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminary Remarks -- 3. Probabilistic Behaviour of the Measurement Devices -- 4. Definition of the Behaviour of the 'Bridge' between the Local Measurements -- 5. The A and B Measurement Functions -- 6. The Complete Model and the Evaluation of the Expectation -- 7. Conclusion & -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter8GROUNDSTATESANDEXCITATIONSPECTRAOFLIGHTANDSTRANGEBARYONSINARELATIVISTICLINEARPOTENTIALMODEL -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.BasicFormalism -- 3.EnergyCorrectionduetoGoldstoneBosonExchange(GBE)Interactions -- 4.ResultsandDiscussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9 NEUTRINO MASS IN A SIX DIMENSIONAL E6 MODEL -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Model -- 3. Neutrino Mass Matrix -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10 DETERMINATION OF THE PROTON BAG RADIUS BASED ON MIT BAG MODEL -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Calculation Method -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter11SEARCHESFORHIGGSBOSONSINTWO-HIGGSDOUBLETMODELS:THEFERMIOPHOBICLIMIT -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.ThePotentials -- 3.TheYukawaLagrangian -- 3.1.GeneralOverview -- 3.2.TheFermiophobicLimit -- 3.3.LoopEffects -- 4.TheoreticalMassLimits -- 5.ProductionModes -- 5.1.HadronColliders -- 5.1.1.NumericalResults -- 5.2.LeptonCollider -- 6.PhenomenologyoftheFermiophobicLimit -- 6.1.TheLightScalarHiggsBoson -- 6.2.ThePseudoscalarHiggsBoson -- 6.3.TheChargedScalarHiggsBoson -- 6.4.TheHeavyScalarHiggsBoson -- 7.CurrentLimitsonFermiophobicHiggsBosons -- 8.Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- A.FormulasfortheCrossSectionsandDecayWidths -- B.FeynmanRulesforFermionCouplings -- C.FeynmanRulesforScalarCouplings -- C.1.DifferentTripleScalarVerticesinVA -- C.2.DifferentTripleScalarVerticesinVB -- C.3.DifferentQuarticScalarVerticesforVA. , C.4.DifferentQuarticScalarVerticesforVB -- References -- Chapter12QUARK-PIONCOUPLINGCONSTANTANDGROUND-STATEBARYONMASSESINACHIRALSYMMETRICPOTENTIALMODEL -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.BasicFormalism -- 3.EnergyCorrectionstoBaryonMasses -- 3.1.Center-of-MassCorrection -- 3.2.ChiralSymmetryRestoration -- 3.2.1.VertexFunction -- 3.2.2.Quark-PionCouplingConstant -- 3.2.3.PionicSelf-EnergyContribution -- 3.3.OneGluonExchangeCorrection -- 4.ResultsandDiscussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter13GOLDSTONE-BOSON-EXCHANGEANDONE-GLUONEXCHANGECONTRIBUTIONSTOBARYONSPECTRAINARELATIVISTICQUARKMODEL -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.PotentialModel -- 3.EnergyContributionstoBaryonMasses -- 3.1.ContributionfromMotionoftheCenterofMass -- 3.2.ContributionfromGoldstoneBosonExchangeInteraction -- 3.3.ContributionfromOnegluonExchange -- 4.ResultsandDiscussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter14NON-LINEARREFRACTIVEINDEXTHEORY:(I)GENERALISEDOPTICALEXTINCTIONTHEOREMANDDISPERSIONRELATION -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.ModelEquations -- 3.GeneralizedOpticalExtinctionTheorem -- 4.OpticalBistabilityintheSmallDensityLimit -- 5.Summary -- AppendixA -- References -- Chapter15NON-LINEARREFRACTIVEINDEXTHEORY:II-NUMERICALSTUDIES -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.NormalizedAnalyticalFormulas -- 3.Self-consistentNumericalScheme -- 4.DiscussionoftheNumericalResults -- 5.Summary -- AppendixA -- References -- INDEX.