Quantized Vortex Dynamics and Superfluid Turbulence

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This book is primarily concerned with turbulence in superfluid helium. Quantized vorticity has traditionally generated great interest among physicists, but there are now also important engineering applications such as liquid helium cooling of superconducting magnets. Presently much research is done on the relationship between superfluid turbulence and classical turbulence, as intense turbulence can be generated in liquid helium due to its small kinematic viscosity. There is also a close relationship between superfluid behaviour and quantized vorticity in liquid helium and in atomic Bose--Einstein condensates. Putting special emphasis on the interplay between the different disciplines involved, this readable account of recent research will appeal not only to established researchers but also to newcomers and graduate students wishing to enter the field.

Superconductivity, Superfluids, and Condensates (Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics)

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Superconductivity, Superfluids, and Condensates (Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics)
James F. Annett
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Superconductivity, provides a basic introduction to one of the most innovative areas in condensed matter physics today. This book includes ample tutorial material, including illustrations, chapter summaries, graded problem sets, and concise examples. This book is part of the Oxford Master
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Optimal for beginners in the field.......2007-05-14

Judging from this volume, Annett seems to be a great teacher and a great writer.

The distance between the material covered here and actual research is quite large, but that's OK, since the book is advertised as a pedagogical introduction, and it is really good at that.

Every chapter includes a number of smartly-chosen problems, the solutions to which are given in an Appendix.

I have given the book 4 stars instead of 5, because it suffers from horrendous copy-editing. Grammatical mistakes, typos in equations, wrong references to previous equations (and the list goes on). One gets the feeling that the publisher received the author's manuscript and published it as is. This makes it very difficult to understand why it's so expensive. Hopefully these errors will be removed in a future edition.

a nice introduction to this subject.......2005-02-08

As most of the books of this serie, this one is also a successful introduction to the desired subject.
The text is very pedagogical and the author never avoids a calculation which leads to an important result. Every formula is generally commented in order to extract the physics behind.
All the important subjects related to BEC are touched. The main core of the book seems ,for me, understandable by a good undergraduate student.
Of course that won't make you a specialist of this wide subject which required a lot of knowledges from different parts of physics , but at least the most important things will be kwnown and you will have the sufficent stuff to go more deeply in the subject of your choice with the required litterature ( which may be found in the bibliography of the book).
I think it deserves its five stars since the objectives of the books (being an clear introduction without being to light) are definitly reached. Definitly a nice book !

Methodological Aspects of the Development of Low Temperature Physics 1881-1956: Concepts Out of Context(s) (Science and Philosophy)

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Methodological Aspects of the Development of Low Temperature Physics 1881-1956: Concepts Out of Context(s) (Science and Philosophy)
K. Gavroglu , and Yorgos Goudaroulis
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Superfluidity and Superconductivity (Graduate Student Series in Physics)

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D.R. Tilley , and J Tilley
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Superfluidity and Superconductivity, Third Edition introduces the low-temperature phenomena of superfluidity and superconductivity from a unified viewpoint. The book stresses the existence of a macroscopic wave function as a central principle, presents an extensive discussion of macroscopic theories, and includes full descriptions of relevant experimental results throughout. This edition also features an additional chapter on high-temperature superconductors. With problems at the end of most chapters as well as the careful elaboration of basic principles, this comprehensive survey of experiment and theory provides an accessible and invaluable foundation for graduate students studying low-temperature physics as well as senior undergraduates taking specialized courses.

High Temperature Superconductors And Other Superfluids

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A S Alexandrov , and Nevill Mott
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Written by eminent researchers in the field, this text describes the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity starting from liquid helium and a charged Bose-gas. It also discusses the modern bipolaron theory of strongly coupled superconductors, which explains the basic physical properties of high-temperature superconductors. This book will be of interest to fourth year graduate and postgraduate students, specialist libraries, information centres and chemists working in high-temperature superconductivity.

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Near Zero: New Frontiers of Physics
J. D. Fairbank
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Nonlinear PDEs in Condensed Matter and Reactive Flows (NATO Science Series C:)

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Nonlinear partial differential equations abound in modern physics. The problems arising in these fields lead to fascinating questions and, at the same time, progress in understanding the mathematical structures is of great importance to the models. Nevertheless, activity in one of the approaches is not always sufficiently in touch with developments in the other field. The book presents the joint efforts of mathematicians and physicists involved in modelling reactive flows, in particular superconductivity and superfluidity. Certain contributions are fundamental to an understanding of such cutting-edge research topics as rotating Bose-Einstein condensates, Kolmogorov-Zakharov solutions for weak turbulence equations, and the propagation of fronts in heterogeneous media.

Nuclear Superfluidity: Pairing in Finite Systems (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology)

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Nuclear Superfluidity: Pairing in Finite Systems (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology)
David M. Brink , and Ricardo A. Broglia
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Nuclear Superfluidity is the first modern text devoted exclusively to pair correlations in nuclei. It begins by exploring pair correlations in a variety of systems including superconductivity in metals at low temperatures and superfluidity in liquid 3He and in neutron stars. The book goes on to introduce basic theoretical methods, symmetry breaking and symmetry restoration in finite many-body systems. The last four chapters are devoted to introducing new results on the role of induced interactions in the structure of both normal and exotic nuclei. The most important of these is the renormalization of the pairing interaction due to the coupling of pairs of nucleons to low energy nuclear collective excitations. This book will be essential reading for researchers and students in both experimental and theoretical nuclear physics, and related research fields such as metal clusters, fullerenes and quantum dots.

On Superconductivity and Superfluidity: A Scientific Autobiography

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On Superconductivity and Superfluidity: A Scientific Autobiography
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
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The book contains my amended version of the Nobel lecture in Physics 2003, expanded autobiography, which was written for Nobel Committee for the book "Les Prix Nobel", an article "A Scientific Autobiography. An Attempt.", fundamental article with L.D. Landau "To the theory of superconductivity", an expanded review article "Superconductivity and superfluidity (what was done and what was not done)" and some new short articles about superconductivity and related subjects.

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Superconductivity and Superfluidity
T. Tsuneto
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This graduate-level text describes the physics of superconductivity and superfluidity, macroscopic quantum phenomena found in many conductors at low temperatures and in liquid helium 4 and helium 3. In the first part of the book the author presents the mean field theory of generalized pair condensation. This is followed by a description of the properties of ordinary superconductors using BCS theory. The book then proceeds with expositions of strong coupling theory and the Ginzburg-Landau theory. The remarkable properties of superfluid helium 3 are then described, as an example of a superfluid with internal degrees of freedom. Recent topics in the field, such as the copper-oxide high temperature superconductors and exotic superconductivity of heavy fermion systems are discussed in the final chapter. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, especially those working in superconductivity and superfluidity.

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Conservatives aren't born--they evolve. And for Wall Street Journal ethics columnist Harry Stein--once vilified in The Village Voice as "a well-known asshole"--that evolution began with the birth of his daughter. But Stein's memoir on transforming from bleeding-heart liberal to someone who gets junk mail from Patrick Buchanan isn't a sappy tale of fatherhood; it's a witty, intelligent account of how one man began to think for himself. "I remember when I was called a fascist for the first time," Stein writes about a dinner conversation in which he sided with Dan Quayle over the Murphy Brown/single-motherhood controversy. While alienating his left-leaning friends, Stein takes to task The New York Times, AIDS hysteria, men-hating feminists, and Bill Clinton, just to mention a few bastions of liberalism that contributed to his social makeover. As if to prove he didn't start out this way, Stein spends a great deal of time trying to convince the reader of his liberal roots. His wife, a former story editor for a major motion picture company, once belonged to a group called Women Against Right-Wing Scum. His sexual escapades as a single man (including a trip to a New York "swap" club) make up a whole chapter. He also writes of his admiration for Tennessee Williams (whom he once interviewed) as if to say, "See, I am not a homophobe."

Contrary to another conservative stereotype, Stein manages to keep a sense of humor throughout the book, writing in a conversational, amused style. His quips and lists read more like naughty office e-mail than diatribes from an angry right-winger: No. 3 in the 12 Ways to Tell If You've Joined the Right-Wing Conspiracy: "You sit all the way through Dead Man Walking and at the end you STILL want the guy to be executed." Longtime conservatives and converts like Stein will find themselves nodding their heads in agreement. Others will simply get a good laugh. --Jodi Mailander Farrell

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As a journalist in an industry populated by liberals, Harry Stein carried the left-wing banner in his life and work. Then he became a father, and suddenly the Right sounded right. Even worse, the Left was starting to sound -- and look -- wrong.

Stein cuts through the distortions on both sides and fearlessly tackles such provocative topics as feminism, affirmative action, PC education, gay rights, and sexual McCarthyism, and shows how liberating it is to no longer have to pass as a correct thinker. Daring, brilliantly argued, and savagely funny, How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy will resonate with many who have witnessed the social revolution of the past thirty years and questioned its outcome -- even if only secretly.

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Good for Me, Bad for You.......2007-06-27

There are thoughtful, rueful memoirs of sincere political change. This isn't one of them. Stein opens with a typically 70's, upper-class-journalist/boyo recitation of his personal (pre-conversion) sluttishness, including key club swinging, screwing prostitutes, and even, shamefully, exploiting them in the workplace. Funny. Then he puff against others speaking of their past errors, accusing them of a lack of dignity and recommending mature silence. How'd he do that? By hewing to a singular theme: he's different. Special. Not like us. Most of his ire, of course, is reserved for Bill Clinton and feminists. He chides the former for behaving exactly as he did (pre-conversion) and the latter for advocating for stuff like child care, which he opposes, arguing that since he's lucky enough to have a cool job, hip apartment and (rich former entertainment executive) wife who happily abandoned her career to raise their kids, we should all do the same. Larded, of course, with fond memories of his "radical" days, Stein comes across as a braggard, name dropper and opportunist who fails entirely to see the irony in scolding actresses for having children out of wedlock while simultaneously opposing abortion and forgetting to mention, let alone also disapprove of, the rich, producer pals of his who knocked them up in the first place. Nice work, if you can get it.

Another liberal who evolves into an adult.......2006-10-23

Stein is a very good writer and does himself proud in this book. He was a darling of the Left, until he matured into a responsible adult, and then became their enemy. Like many former leftist elitists, he goes through the trials and tribulations of having life handed to him on a silver platter, looks down on the rubes who are too stupid to understand what he is talking about from his snobbish point of view, but comes to realize that the great divide between the red and blue states is a function of living life instead of reading about it in the New York Times.

While others have made similar transformations, such as Horowitz or Krystol, Stein goes further in exposing the idiocy of the Upper East Side liberals who rail against supposed violations of "free speech" except at the dinner tables they use to suppress it. His observations on the consequences of their liberalism which made NY the murder capital of the world until Giuliani somehow miraculously appeared from the sky as mayor even though they all voted for Dinkins as he presided over the carnage is particularly interesting.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at many chapters of this book, but I guess both emotions were appropriate since I have suffered through many of the hypocrisies that makes up the vast majority of the elite liberals today. His observations about "sexgate" as he calls Clinton's great role modeling of corruption for the country's youth of wagging your finger and lying as he performed his magic act with Monica and the disappearing cigars is a good example, but there are many more, such as the disappearing act of "Murphy Brown's" baby when the ratings decided this little Hollywood stunt should be aborted once it was no longer of use in attacking those who viewed intact families as something of value. Of course Brown's role modeling for the millions of unwed women who have babies but have to raise them makes for great observation on Stein's part.

This book was written in 2000, so it is a bit dated, but still relevant to the culture wars of today.

An Accessible Convert to Conservatism.......2006-08-16

The dust-cover copy caries a list of self-help style questions to determine if you might enjoy this book. While they are meant to be light hearted and fanciful, one of them jumps out as a great point of departure in looking at this book. To wit: You sit all the way through "Dead Man Walking" and at the end still want the guy to be executed.
I remember seeing the film when it first came out. At the end, I was sure Susan Sarandon's character had realized that the job of a nun is saving souls, not protesting political issues. It was no great shock to find over the following days that the rest of the planet viewed the film as a masterful argument against capital punishment. I am used to finding myself on the outskirts of fashionable sentiment and have no plans to move to the center. Works like Stein's reassure me that I am in good company. Intelligent, well informed people can disagree about political issues, spittle-flecked protestations of the left notwithstanding.
It really is okay to be a social conservative. Advocating reasonable limits on abortion for instance does not mean you hate women; it means you think children are a blessing and that they deserve at least as much protection as we demand for the cockroaches used in filming popular movies (see p. 204.) People like Stein, people who started out as beaded and sandaled hippies and metamorphosed into conservatives are open to accusations of being "wishy-washy," of having sold-out. But Stein makes the excellent point that holding lofty principles while one has no experience and few real responsibilities in life is the truly indefensible position. The things that seemed like such a good idea when you were waving a sign on campus suddenly look different when it is time to pay for them and see how they affect your own children. Most people will become more conservative as they grow older and take on more responsibilities. The question is whether those people will have the courage to lead in the face of the idealistic mob, yammering for ever more government.

neither Right nor Left.......2006-07-17

Many people will misunderstand this title, since wit and irony are no longer learned in schools and colleges. They will interpret the title literally and buy this book, eager to hear their favorite prejudices trumpeted once again. They'll be disappointed. Stein is not a right-winger. True, he says of the Democratic Party: "Morally corrupt to the core, preaches hope and decency; practices cynicism and racial and gender extortionism." (p. 76) But he also says of the Republican Party: "Composed largely of [...]/Neanderthals/lackeys, yet also a few of real character." (p. 76) The literal title for the book would be "How Leftist stupidity drove me out of Leftism."

The 1960s were a mixture of two points of view: Leftism (which was much the same as it is today: antirational, dogmatic, group-oriented, etc.) and Liberalism (which was for individual freedom, do your own thing, etc.) Most people absorbed some of both. But the two are fundamentally incompatible. For a Lefty, you do the RIGHT thing. Your own thing should BE the right thing. Only then may you do your own thing. (People are taught in school these days that THIS is Liberalism!!!)

So, a strain develops within the individual person between the two conflicting ideologies. Some people abandon Liberalism (by accepting the new definition). Others abandon Leftism. Harry Stein was one of the latter. It took years of little personal experiences, but gradually he began to ask questions (and that is always the beginning of the end for both Leftism and Rightism). "Indeed, many of us were soon startled to find ourselves tagged conservatives (and often worse) for holding firm to the values of old-fashioned LIBERALISM: a bedrock commitment to fairness and individual liberty." (p. 2)

People who are beginning to have doubts about the pervasive "wisdom" they learned in school/college and on the TV/radio/rock lyrics will find this book eye-opening. Those who want to get up to speed fast should read the new book While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within. In it you'll find the New Ideology (which is NOT liberalism nor leftism) spelled out in detail along with how it enforces itself, how it spreads and how pervasive it has already become.

Growing Up.......2005-09-07

At first, I was reluctant to give this book five stars. I found the writing style very engrossing and stimulating. However, I was put off by the lack of organization in the book, which made it difficult to locate subjects that I wished to review again.

The high rating I finally decided upon applies to the honesty of the writer and to his accurate protrayal of past and recent events. A friend of mine went through a similar experience as this author. She was very liberal in all of her beliefs and actions, very pacific, very pro-abortion, very pro-feminist, and very nonconformist. She was all of this, until the day she had her first child. Was there an immediate change? No, but a gradual one as she learned that her previous beliefs did not fit with her new world.

She still will not pick up a gun to save her own life, but she would to save the lives of her children. She continues to fight for a woman's right-to-choose, but she advises her daughters to never have an abortion. She still fights for equal rights for women in the workplace but states that she feels more fulfilled as a mother than as a businesswoman. Finally, she now feels that what is right for a single individual may not be what's best for society as a whole.

How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (And Found Inner Peace, Hardcover 2000)

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How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (And Found Inner Peace)

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