Contemporary Physics, Volume 62, Issue 2 (2021)

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Superconducting photon detectors
Dmitry V. Morozov, Alessandro Casaburi & Robert H. Hadfield
Pages: 69-91
Published online: 11 Mar 2022
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A brief introduction to contemporary electrokinetics
Paweł Jan Żuk
Pages: 92-104
Published online: 26 May 2022
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Book reviews

Book Review
Do wave functions jump? Perspectives of the work of GianCarlo Ghirardi
edited by Valia Allori, Angelo Bassi, Detlef Dürr, and Nino Zanghi, Cham, CH, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021, xv + 436 pp., £87.50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-0304-6776-0/ ISBN 978-3-0304-6777-7 (e-book). Scope: article collection. Level: early career researcher, specialist, scientist
Peter J. Bussey
Pages: 105-106
Published online: 11 Aug 2021
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The neutrino story: one tiny particle’s grand role in the cosmos
by Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Cham, Switzerland, Springer, 2021, xvi+222 pp., £17.99 (E-Book), ISBN 978-3-0305-1846-2. Scope: monograph, general interest. Level: non-specialists, undergraduate, specialist, scientist. 
Salvatore Esposito
Pages: 106-107
Published online: 12 Aug 2021
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The equations of materials
by Brian Cantor, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 19 + 307pp., £59.99 (hardback), £29.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-19-885187-5 (hbk)/978-0-19-885188-2 (pbk). Scope: general interest. Level: pre-university, undergraduate.
A. H. Harker
Page: 107
Published online: 10 Aug 2021
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The cosmic microwave background, 2nd edition
by Ruth Durrer, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 510 pp., £47.61 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-107-13522-2. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher.
Robert S. MacKay
Pages: 107-108
Published online: 16 Aug 2021
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Particle detectors: fundamentals and applications
by Hermann Kolanoski and Norbert Wermes, New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, 944 pp., $100 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-19885836-2. Scope: monograph. Level: graduate.
David J. Miller
Pages: 108-109
Published online: 20 Aug 2021
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Book Review
Advances in nuclear physics: structure and reactions
edited by R.K. Puri, J. Aichelin, S. Gautam and R. Kumar, Springer Nature, 2020, 273 pp., £129.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-981-1590-61-0. Scope: conference proceedings. Level: researcher
David J. Miller
Pages: 109-110
Published online: 20 Aug 2021
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The physics of the dark photon: a primer
by Marco Fabbrichesi, Emidio Gabrielli and Gaia Lanfranchi, Cham, Springer Nature, 2021, 78 pp., £44.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9783030625184. Scope: review. Level: researcher.
David J. Miller
Page: 110
Published online: 20 Aug 2021
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Book Review
Classical mechanics: a professor–student collaboration
edited by Mario Campanelli, Bristol, IOP Science, 2020, 376 pp., £99.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780750326889. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate.
David J. Miller
Pages: 110-111
Published online: 20 Aug 2021
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Semiconductor physics: principles, theory and nanoscale
by S. Tiwari, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 19 + 803 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-198-75986-7. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, early postgraduate.
A.H. Harker
Pages: 111-112
Published online: 10 Aug 2021
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Book Review
The advent of relativity
by Voldemar Smilga, Singapore, World Scientific, 2021, 352 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9789811231148. Scope: monograph. Level: pre-university.
Krista Halttunen
Page: 112
Published online: 26 Nov 2021
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From quarks to pions: chiral symmetry and confinement
by M. Creutz, World Scientific, 2018, 216 pp., £75 (hardback), ISBN: 9789813229235. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate.
H. Osborn
Page: 113
Published online: 26 Nov 2021
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Book Review
The handbook of medical image perception and techniques, 2nd edition
by E. Samei and E. A. Krupinski, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 522 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-107-19488-5. Scope: handbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist.
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
Pages: 113-114
Published online: 26 Nov 2021
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Book Review
Advanced quantum condensed matter physics: one-body, many-body, and topological perspectives
by Michael El-Batanouny, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, £69.99 (hardback), ISBN: 9781108480840. Scope: reference, textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher.
Stefano Scali
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 26 Nov 2021
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Book Review
Group theory for physicists, 2nd edition
by Zhong-Qi Ma, Hackensack, NJ, World Scientific, 2019, 656 pp., £115 (paperback), ISBN: 9789813277960. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher.
Stefano Scali
Pages: 115-116
Published online: 18 Nov 2021
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Book Review
Relativistic fluid dynamics in and out of equilibrium: and applications to relativistic nuclear collisions,
by Paul Romatschke and Ulrike Romatschke, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 204 pp., US$140.00 (hardcover), ISBN-13: 9781108483681. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist.
Chih-Yueh Wang
Page: 116
Published online: 01 Dec 2021
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Book Review
An introduction to fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
by Thorsten Wohland, Radek Macháň, and Sudipta Maiti, Bristol, IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020, 300 pages, $190.00, ISBN: 978-0-7503-2078-8. Scope: textbook, handbook. Level: advanced undergraduate student, graduate student, researcher.
Andrew Resnick
Page: 117
Published online: 01 Dec 2021
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Book Review
Stigmatic optics
by Rafael G. González-Acuña and Héctor A. Chaparro-Romo, Bristol, IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020, 308 pages, $190.00, ISBN-13: 978-0750334617, ISBN-10: 0750334614. Scope: textbook, handbook. Level: advanced undergraduate student, graduate student, researcher
Andrew Resnick
Pages: 117-118
Published online: 30 Nov 2021
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Book Review
The physics of the Manhattan Project
by Bruce Cameron Reed, New York, Springer, Nature Switzerland AG, 2021, 256 pp., £43.99 (e-book), ISBN: 978-3-030-61372-3. Scope: general interest, textbook. Level: general readership, undergraduate, teacher.
R. S. Shorter
Page: 118
Published online: 01 Dec 2021
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Book Review
Electrons in motion: attosecond physics explores fastest dynamics
by F. Krausz, Singapore, World Scientific, 2019, 536 pp., $175 (hardback), ISBN: 9789811201868. Scope: article collection. Level: researcher, specialist.
Manuel Vogel
Page: 119
Published online: 01 Dec 2021
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Book Review
Particle–antiparticle asymmetry in the meson system
by Hiroaki Aihara, IOP Science, 2020, $190.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780750336499, $159.00 (ebook), ISBN: 9780750336512. Scope: reference material, appropriate for undergraduate level.
Tim Gershon
Pages: 119-120
Published online: 01 Dec 2021
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Book Review
Essentials of nucleosynthesis and theoretical nuclear astrophysics
by Thomas Rauscher, Bristol, IOP Science, 2020, $190.00 (Hardback), 397 pp., ISBN 9780750311502. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher. Scope: reference.
A. C. Shotter
Pages: 120-121
Published online: 30 Nov 2021
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Book Review
Statistical mechanics: entropy, order parameters, and complexity, 2nd edition
by James P. Sethna, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, 496pp., £58.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-198-86524-7. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate.
Giovanni Volpe
Pages: 121-122
Published online: 30 Nov 2021
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Book Review
Relativity and cosmology: volume 5 of modern classical physics
by Kip S. Thorne and Roger D. Blandford, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 416 pp., £48 (softcover), ISBN: 978-0-691207391. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduates.
Manuel Vogel
Page: 122
Published online: 18 Feb 2022
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Book Review
Introduction to the standard model and beyond: quantum field theory, symmetries and phenomenology
by Stuart Raby, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, xvi+619 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-49,419-9. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.
Peter J. Bussey
Page: 123
Published online: 18 Feb 2022
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Book Review
Continuum mechanics of solids
by Lallit Anand and Sanjay Govindjee, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2020, 736 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198864721. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, engineers.
Mogadalai P. Gururajan
Pages: 123-124
Published online: 18 Feb 2022
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