Contemporary Physics, Volume 62, Issue 4 (2021)

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Contemporary Physics, Volume 62, Issue 4 (2021)

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Managing the three-party entanglement challenge
Songbo Xie & J.H. Eberly
Pages: 189-198
Published online: 10 Aug 2022
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Precision metrology: from bulk optics towards metasurface optics
Xiangqian Jiang & Andrew Henning
Pages: 199-216
Published online: 30 Aug 2022
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Something from nothing: linking molecules with virtual light
M. S. Rider & W. L. Barnes
Pages: 217-232
Published online: 05 Aug 2022
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Resolving a paradox
Peter J. Bussey
Pages: 233-235
Published online: 04 Jul 2022
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Book reviews

Book Review
The quantum universe: essays on quantum mechanics, quantum cosmology, and physics in general
by James B. Hartle, Singapore, World Scientific, 2021, 624 pp., £110.00 (E-Book), ISBN: 9789811216343. Scope: edited book. Level: early career researcher.
Eric Howard
Page: 236
Published online: 21 Feb 2022
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Machine learning with neural networks: an introduction for scientists and engineers
by Bernhard Mehlig, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 249 pp., £39.99 (hardback), ISBN: 9781108494939. Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduate, researcher.
Matt Probert
Pages: 236-237
Published online: 24 Feb 2022
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Physics of elasticity and crystal defects
Oxford series on materials modelling, by Adrian P. Sutton, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 288 pp., £45.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198860785. Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, scientist, engineers
Mogadalai P. Gururajan
Pages: 237-238
Published online: 22 Feb 2022
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Introduction to quantum nanotechnology: a problem focused approach
by Duncan G. Steel, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2021, 370 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780192895073. Scope: reference, review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, scientist, engineers
Mohit Sharma
Pages: 238-239
Published online: 10 Jun 2022
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Cosmology’s century: an inside history of our modern understanding οf the universe
Physics & Astronomy, by P. J. E. Peebles, winner of the Nobel prize in Physics, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, 440 pp., $28.00 (hardback), ISBN (e-book) 978-0-691-20166-5. Scope: monograph. Level: non-specialists, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist
Nikolaos E. Myridis
Pages: 239-240
Published online: 28 Jun 2022
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Book Review
A handbook of mathematical methods and problem-solving tools for introductory physics (second edition)
by Joshua F. Whitney, Heather M. Whitney, IOP Science, Bristol, Institute of Physics Publishing, 2021, $120.00 (hardback), $90.00 (e-book), E-Book (https://store.ioppublishing.org/page/detail/A-Handbook-of-Mathematical-Methods-and-ProblemSolving-Tools-for-Introductory-Physics-Second-Edition/?K=9780750333993), ISBN 9780750333993. Scope: handbook. Level: undergraduate.
Jack Reid
Pages: 240-241
Published online: 28 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Ultrafast lasers and optics for experimentalists
by James David Pickering, Bristol, UK, IOP Science, 2021, 157 pp., ISBN 978-0-7503-3659-8. Scope: handbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate.
Michael Belsley
Pages: 241-242
Published online: 09 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Principles of materials characterization and metrology
by Kannan M. Krishnan, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2021, 20 + 849 pp., ISBN 978–0–19–883025–2 (hbk), ISBN 978–0–19–883026–9 (pbk). Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, early postgraduate.
A.H. Harker
Page: 242
Published online: 07 Jun 2022
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Nuclear materials science, 2nd edition
by Karl Whittle, IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020, 218 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7503-2376-5 (ebook), ISBN: 978-0-7503-2374-1 (print). Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, early postgraduate.
A.H. Harker
Pages: 242-243
Published online: 01 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Principles of physical Cosmology
by P. J. E. Peebles, winner of the Nobel prize in Physics, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, 774 pp., £62.00 (e-book), ISBN 9780691206721. Princeton Series in Physics & Astronomy. Scope: reference. Level: non-specialists, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist.
Nikolaos E. Myridis
Pages: 243-244
Published online: 08 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Electrostatics of conducting cylinders and spheres
by John Lekner, Melville, NY, AIP Publishing, 2021, 240 pp., $135 (paperback), https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735423350, ISBN: 978-0-7354-2332-9. Scope: monograph. Level: scientist
Rufus Boyack
Pages: 244-245
Published online: 08 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Nuclear data – a primer
by David G. Jenkins and John L. Wood, Bristol, UK, IOP Publishing, 2021, 198 pp., USD 190 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-7503-2672-8. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduates and above.
Manuel Vogel
Pages: 245-246
Published online: 08 Jun 2022
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Book Review
A random walk in physics. Beyond black holes and time-travels
by Massimo Cencini, Andrea Puglisi, Davide Vergni, and Angelo Vulpiani, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021, 36.39 € (hardback), 224 pp. ISBN 9783030725303. Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, undergraduate, teacher.
Miguel A.F. Sanjuán
Pages: 246-247
Published online: 08 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Foundations of quantum cosmology
by Martin Bojowald, IOP Science, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-7503-2460-1 (E-Book), Scope: monograph. Level: physics graduate.
Frank F. Deppisch
Page: 247
Published online: 09 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Theory of simple glasses: exact solutions in infinite dimensions
by Giorgio Parisi, Pierfrancesco Urbani and Francesco Zamponi, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 349 pages, £62.99 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781108120494. Level: researcher. Scope: textbook.
Stephen J. Blundell
Pages: 247-248
Published online: 09 Jun 2022
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Book Review
The ideas of particle physics
by James Dodd and Ben Gripaios, Cambridge University Press, 2020, £34.99 (paperback, https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/particle-physics-and-nuclear-physics/ideas-particle-physics-4th-edition?format=PB), ISBN 9781108727402. Scope: review. Level: general readership, non-specialists, scientists.
Stephen H. Ashworth
Pages: 248-249
Published online: 30 Jun 2022
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