Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
592
Language
English
Published
Aug 12, 2008
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-10
0817671161
ISBN-13
9780817671167
Description
This volume contains the third and fourth Poincaré Seminar, both held in 2003. The third one is devoted to Bose-Einstein it covers the physics of superfluid liquid helium as well as the recently discovered atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Major experimental results are presented, together with relevant theoretical approaches and remaining open questions. The fourth one is devoted to Entropy, giving a comprehensive account of the history and various realizations of this concept, from thermodynamics to black holes, and includes theoretical and experimental discussions of the corresponding fluctuations for mesoscopic systems near equilibrium.
Genres
Science & Technology
History