Contemporary Physics, Volume 64, Issue 1 (2023)

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Contemporary Physics, Volume 64, Issue 1 (2023)

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Axions for amateurs
David J. E. Marsh
Pages: 1-18
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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Superconductivity: the path of least resistance to the future
William J. Mercer & Yuri A. Pashkin
Pages: 19-46
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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The Extremely Large Telescope
Paolo Padovani & Michele Cirasuolo
Pages: 47-64
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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Space astrometry
Michael Perryman
Pages: 65-81
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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Book Review
Application-driven quantum and statistical physics: a short course for future scientists and engineers, Volume 3: Transitions
by Jean-Michel Gillet, London, World Scientific, 2020, £ 80 (E-Book), ISBN: 9781786347886. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, Bachelor and Master's level engineering and physics students
Toni Shiroka
Pages: 82-83
Published online: 09 May 2023
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Fundamentals and applications of magnetic materials
by Kannan M. Krishnan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 795 pp., £40 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780198862048. Scope: reference, handbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist, engineers
Toni Shiroka
Pages: 83-84
Published online: 09 May 2023
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Book Review
An object-oriented python cookbook in quantum information theory and quantum computing
byM. S. Ramkarthik and Pranay Barkataki, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023, 220 pp., 104 USD (hardback), ISBN: 978-1032256078. Scope: handbook. Level: postgraduate.
Nicholas Zutt
Pages: 84-85
Published online: 05 Jun 2023
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Invitation to quantum mechanics
by Daniel F. Styer, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, 2022, 289 pp., £30 (e-book), ISBN: 978-981-124-792-7; £40 (paperback), ISBN: 978-981-124-928-0; £80 (hardback), ISBN: 978-981-124-790-3. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate
Michael Belsley
Page: 85
Published online: 08 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Commonly Asked Questions in thermodynamics, 2nd edition
by Marc J. Assael, Geoffrey C. Maitland, Thomas Maskow, Urs von Stockar, William A. Wakeham, and Stefan Will, Boca Raton, FL, USA and Abingdon, UK, CRC Press, 2022, xxiv+461 pp., £170 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-367-33891-6; ISBN: 978-1-032-27589-5 (paperback); ISBN: 978-0-429-32952-4 (e-book). Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, graduate, early stage researcher.
A. H. Harker
Page: 86
Published online: 02 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Offbeat physics: machines, meditations and misconceptions
edited by P. I. C. Teixeira, Boca Raton, FL, and Abingdon, UK, CRC Press, 2022, xvi+258 pp., £99.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-032-02116-4; ISBN: 978-1-032-03393-8 (paperback); ISBN: 978-1-003-18710-3 (e-book). Scope: article collection. Level: undergraduate.
A. H. Harker
Pages: 86-87
Published online: 02 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Elementary Introduction to Quantum Geometry
by Jan Ambjorn, Abingdon, CRC Press, 2023, 292 pp., £74.99 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1032335551. Scope: textbook. Level: researcher
Stephen J. Blundell
Page: 87
Published online: 12 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Transition metal oxides for electrochemical energy storage
edited by Jagit Nanda and Veronica Augustyn, Chichester, UK, Wiley, 2022, 432 pp., £138.99 (e-Book), ISBN: 9783527344932, Scope: review, reference, monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers.
Peter J. Dobson
Pages: 87-88
Published online: 08 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Density functional theory: a practical introduction, 2nd edition
by David S. Sholl and Janice A. Steckel, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley, 2023, 204 pp., £91.25 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1119840862. Scope: textbook. Level: graduate student, researcher
Stephen J. Blundell
Page: 88
Published online: 15 Jun 2023
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Book Review
So simple a beginning: how four physical principles shape our living world
by Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Princeton, NJ, USA and Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK, Princeton University Press, 2022, x + 326 pp., £30  (hardback), ISBN: 9780691200408; £30  (e-book), ISBN: 9780691231617. Scope: general interest. Level: general reader.
A. H. Harker
Pages: 88-89
Published online: 05 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Life in the universe, 5th edition
by Jeffrey Bennett, Seth Shostak, Nicholas Schneider and Meredith MacGregor, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2022, 544 pp., £84.00 (e-book), ISBN: 9780691241784. Scope: review. Level: general readership, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, scientist, engineers
Aras Beauty & Bimo Bramantio
Pages: 89-90
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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Book Review
When things grow many. Complexity, universality and emergence in nature
by L. S. Schulman, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., £45 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198861881. Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist.
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán
Pages: 90-91
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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