Particularly intense lightning discharges can produce transient luminous events above thunderclouds, termed sprites, elves ...
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Continue readingThis collection of papers -- starting with a brilliant article by one of the masters of the field -- gives an excellent current ...
Continue readingCarl Friedrich von Weizsäcker‘s "Aufbau der Physik", first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong ...
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Continue readingThe book describes the modern theory of light hydrogen-like systems, and the discussion is based on quantum electrodynamics. ...
Continue readingThis book consists of contributions given in honor of Wolfgang J.R. Hoefer. The contributions represent the state of the ...
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Continue readingIn the introduction accelerator-based light sources are considered and a comparison is made between free-electron lasers ...
Continue readingThere has been a long debate about whether uniformly accelerated charges should radiate electromagnetic energy and how one ...
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