Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

When exposed to periodic driving, which is the time-dependent manipulation of a system's parameters, quantum systems can ...

spin ice and quantum spin glass. The reader can — within a single book — obtain a global view of the current research development in the field of frustrated systems. This new edition is updated with ...