With an irreverent tone, the author debunks modern physics using common sense and experimental evidence. He proposes a new unifying model where all events are connected, from the subatomic to galaxies. This provocative read requires no advanced scientific knowledge.
Plasma instabilities are a major obstacle in achieving stable confinement in fusion devices. This book combines rigorous analysis with advanced simulations to uncover their dynamics and present practical strategies for mitigation, paving a path toward viable fusion energy.
This book explores the nonlinear features of natural phenomena through mathematical models. It focuses on practical methods to investigate these problems, presenting approaches applicable to a wide class of nonlinear equations and guiding even uninitiated readers.
This book is devoted to a quasi-classical treatment of quantum transitions, with an emphasis on magnetic and electric dipolar resonance. In addition to known results, it presents parametric resonance for electric dipoles, which may lead to spontaneous electric polarization.
Many-body Theory
This book presents a theory of many interacting fermions, relating Landau’s theory of the normal Fermi liquid to quantum-mechanical effects. It derives the interaction function, investigates the validity of the quasiparticle concept, and estimates the ground-state energy.
Pyrometers are calibrated for blackbodies (BB), but real objects radiate differently, causing measurement errors. This book proposes original correction methods that account for an object’s radiation spectrum and its temperature dependence to increase the accuracy of pyrometry.
The muon is vital to particle, nuclear, and atomic physics, and a key component of the Standard Model. Muonic processes provide crucial information on the weak interaction. This book explores the various aspects of muon physics, highlighting the most recent experiments conducted.
Nanostructured Nonlinear Optical Materials
This book focuses on novel applications of nanostructured nonlinear optical materials, including optical limiting, Q-switching, mode-locking, and laser-nanoplasma physics. It is useful for physicists, material scientists, and engineers interested in laser technology.
This book describes a new interpretation of the Standard Model based on relations between particle masses and stable intervals in nuclear data. A combined analysis of these two data sets is performed for the first time, revealing many new relations based on the electron.
This book presents a theory of nonlinear response in charged media, yielding Burnett transport coefficients to model heat and mass flows. It applies these methods to extreme scenarios, from gas-phase nuclear reactors to a spacecraft landing on Mars. For specialists.
This volume presents research on gas-discharge plasma for creating powerful, tunable excilamps. It details the application of these studies to develop efficient blue-green and ultraviolet radiation sources for specialists in plasma physics and quantum electronics.
This book presents research-based material on designing radiometers for high-performance optical measurements. It is a reference for students, scientists, and engineers to learn, design, build, and use new generation radiometers, covering design issues and applications.
Optical metrology, the science of measuring light, has applications in industry and health, enabling non-destructive evaluation of materials and the study of cellular structures. This book explains recent optical imaging techniques carried out by the author in these fields.
Celebrating Paolo Grigolini’s 50-year legacy in non-equilibrium statistical physics. This collection explores his pioneering work on the quantum-classical connection, anomalous diffusion, and new methods for detecting scaling in time series.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the physics of intense laser-plasma interaction, motivated by applications in high-energy-density physics. For master’s and graduate students, it combines accessible theory with up-to-date developments and practical exercises.
This book describes mathematical methods for calculating nuclear characteristics and intercluster potentials. It discusses phase shift analysis of elastic scattering at low and astrophysical energies and investigates three-body models of light nuclear nuclei.
Philosophical Semantics
This book offers an innovative systematic approach to meaning and reference, unifying insights from philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege while exposing errors of formalists from Quine to Kripke. It shows how the cartography of philosophy of language can be redrawn.
This book presents physical kinetics from a unique angle, deriving the Boltzmann equation from atomic motion using Landau’s elementary excitations. It details the kinetic theory of classical gas and plasma, the lifetime of phonons, and the features of superconductivity.
Existing methods for studying the piezooptic properties of crystals are imperfect and lead to significant errors. This book introduces 2D-polarimetric and interferometric methods that increase experimental accuracy and ensure reliable results for photoelastic properties.
Plasma Agriculture
Plasma agriculture is an emerging science where treating seeds with gas plasma stimulates growth and increases yield. This book uses garlic as a model organism to explain the underlying principles, connecting plasma physics to biological responses.