“Nanoscience” is the emerging science of objects that are intermediate in size between the
largest molecules and the smallest structures that can be fabricated by current …

We take a fresh look at the major nonrenewable and renewable energy sources and
examine their long-term viability, scalability, and the sustainability of the resources that they …

What attitudes and expectations do (potential) future users, and the public at large, bring to
the new technology of autonomous driving? Alongside the technical and legal areas of …

A well-known mystery in quantum mechanics is wave–particle duality: Is an electron a point
mass or a physical wave? What is the physical meaning of its wave function? About a …

Graduates face a world of complexity which demands flexibility, adaptability, self-reliance
and innovation, but while the development of creativity is embedded in the English National …

Quantum information and computation is a rapidly expanding and cross-disciplinary subject.
This book, first published in 2006, gives a self-contained introduction to the field for …

Charged microparticles confined in electrodynamic traps evolve into strongly coupled
Coulomb systems (SCCS) which are the subject of current investigation. Recent results with …

An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics familiarizes readers with what is
considered tested and accepted and in so doing, gives them a grounding in particle physics …

Symbolical artificial intelligence is a field of computer science that is highly related to
quantum computation. At first glance, this statement appears to be a contradiction. However …

The mathematical expressions of a valid theory should correctly describe the physical
mechanisms involved in a complete ensemble of experimentally observed phenomena …