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The dark universe /
"Version: 20170201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Background -- Dark matter -- Dark energy -- Flat [lambda]CDM and the cosmological parameters of the Universe -- Current directions -- Weak gravitational lensing -- Baryon acoustic oscillations -- Galaxy clusters -- Redshift space distortions -- Outlook.Just over 95% of our Universe comes in the shrouded fo…
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Common envelope evolution /
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why do we think common-envelope evolution happens? -- 1.2. Why is common-envelope evolution broadly important? -- 1.3. Why is modeling common-envelope evolution difficult?2. Main phases -- 2.1. Characteristic timescales -- 2.2. Phase I : the loss of orbital stability and the onset of the common env…
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Lens design :automatic and quasi-autonomous computational methods and techniq…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and …
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Impurity transport in magnetically confined plasmas /
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. High-Z impurity accumulation -- 1.2. Carbonization and boronization -- 1.3. Impurity transport2. Transport model -- 2.1. Atomic processes -- 2.2. Neoclassical and turbulent transport in the closed-flux surface (core) region -- 2.3. Transport in the open-flux surface region3. Diagnostics -- 3.1. Int…
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Rydberg physics /
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-27).Introduction -- Background -- Laser excitation -- Rydberg lifetimes -- Detection -- Interactions -- Current directions -- Rydberg sensors -- Rydberg quantum optics -- Rydberg quantum simulators -- Outlook.Rydberg physics is the land of gentle giants--highly-excited electronic states where an electron is, on …
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Hypersonic meteoroid entry physics /
"Version: 20190301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Considerations on meteoroid entry physics. part I. Meteoroid and meteorite science. 2. The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk impactor -- 2.1. Trajectory -- 2.2. Structure -- 2.3. Origin -- 2.4. Implications3. Properties of meteoroids from forward scatter radio observations -- 3.1. Radio meteor theory …
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Atomic and molecular physics :a primer /
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Preliminary concepts. 1. The overall picture -- 1.1. The atomistic structure of matter -- 1.2. The quantum nature of physical laws -- 1.3. The dual nature of physical phenomena2. Essential quantum mechanics -- 2.1. The wavefunction -- 2.2. Quantum operators -- 2.3. Time evolution -- 2.4. Systems of identical parti…
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Optical forces on atoms /
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. Structure of the book2. Characterization of optical fields -- 2.1. Electromagnetic field modes in vacuum -- 2.2. Quantization of electromagnetic field modes -- 2.3. Quantized electromagnetic fields -- 2.4. Quantum distribution functions3. Atom-field intera…
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Warm dense matter :laboratory generation and diagnosis /
"Version: 20210204"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Background and context to warm dense matter -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Features of warm dense matter -- 1.3. Effects of warm dense matter on electronic structure -- 1.4. Equations of state for warm dense matter -- 1.5. Creating and probing warm dense matter2. Shock and ramp compression -- 2.1. General background -- 2…
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Introduction to simulation methods for gas discharge plasmas :accuracy, relia…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Modeling approaches for gas discharge plasmas -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Boltzmann kinetic equation and derivation of balance equations for the density, momentum, and energy of plasma particles -- 1.3. Two-fluid equations for plasma -- 1.4. Fluid equations of plasma in drift-diffusion approximation -- 1.5. Limitation…
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