Line Groups in Physics

Theory and Applications to Nanotubes and Polymers
1. Auflage. 2010
ISBN: 978-3-642-11171-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 801, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 362 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

Over last decades low-dimensional materials are in focus of physics and chemistry as well as of material and other natural sciences. Like Vitaly Ginzburg has foreseen 30 years ago, low dimensionality offers physical phenomena and properties unseen in three-dimensional world. To see how thin ?lms and monomolecular layers realize such a prediction it suf?ces only to observe intensity of research devoted to recently synthesized graphene. Still, quasi-one-dimensional compounds are over long period established as the origin of the most important and most interesting discoveries of material science and solid state physics. To mention only deoxyribonucleic acid, the most important molecule in nature, and diversity of nanotubes and nanowires, the cornerstones of the present and future nanotechnology. Line groups, describing symmetry of quasi-one-dimensional materials, offer the deepest insight to their characteristic properties. Underlying many of the laws, they are very useful, but far from simple. This book is intended to explain them, their properties, and their most common applications. In particular, it is important to understand that the line groups are much wider class of symmetries than the well-known rod groups. While the latter describe only translationally periodical objects, line groups include symmetries of incommensurate periodical structures.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milosevic, Ivanka

Damnjanovic, Milan

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Chemische Physik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Atom- und Molekülphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Algebraische Strukturen, Gruppentheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Line Groups Structure.- Symmetrical Compounds.- Irreducible Representations.- Tensors.- Magnetic Line Groups.- Vibrational Analysis.- Applications.- Nanotubes.

Über Autor(innen)

Milan M. Damnjanovic

Date of birth: 7 Septemer 1953

Citizenship: Serbia

Ivanka P. Milosevic

Date of birth: 28 December 1962

Citizenship: Serbia