Nonclassical Physics: Beyond Newton's View

A Classical Physics Review for Nonclassical Physics

A classical view on nonclassical nucleation.

Understanding and controlling nucleation is important for many crystallization applications. Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is often used as a model system to investigate nucleation mechanisms. Despite its great importance in geology, biology, and many industrial applications, CaCO3 nucleation is still a topic of intense discussion, with new pathways for its growth from ions in solution proposed in ...

Beyond particle physics.

Since the prediction and experimental realization of topological insulators a decade ago, topological materials have become one of the mainstream research topics in condensed matter physics. The conductive properties of topological matter depend on the topological properties of the bulk electron wave functions, and are therefore a paradigmatic example of quantum materials — those in which quant...

Physics Beyond the Desert

I review the observational status of neutrino physics, including the present hints for neutrino mass and the ways to reconcile the solar and atmospheric neutrino data with the existence of a hot dark matter component, and the possible hints from LSND. I also briefly discuss the electroweak symmetry breaking sector of the Standard Model (SM), focussing on supersymmetric models with broken R– par...

Physics Beyond the Standard Model

The Standard Model is in good shape, apart possibly from gμ−2 and some niggling doubts about the electroweak data. Something like a Higgs boson is required to provide particle masses, but theorists are actively considering alternatives. The problems of flavour, unification and quantum gravity will require physics beyond the Standard Model, and astrophysics and cosmology also provide reasons to ...