This second edition extends and improves on the first, already an acclaimed and original
treatment of statistical concepts insofar as they impact theoretical physics and form the basis …

Sterically stabilized as well as charge-stabilized colloidal dispersions mimic most of the
phases of condensed matter and serve as excellent model systems to study the cooperative …

Among the various soft matter systems, charge stabilized colloidal dispersions have gained
recognition as tremendously useful model condensed matter systems because of their …

We report measurements of the fluidization process in vertically vibrated two-dimensional
granular packings. An initially close packed granular bed is exposed to sinusoidal container …

The wetting of solid surfaces can be manoeuvered by altering the energy balance in the
interfacial region. While the electric field acts favourably to spread a droplet on a rigid …

We report measurements and simulations of the time-evolving rms velocity distribution in an
ultracold neutral plasma. A strongly coupled ultracold neutral Ca+ plasma is generated by …

In an experimental system millimeter-sized steel balls repel each other through the Coulomb
force to imitate a two-dimensional (2D) atomic lattice in a vacuum both topologically and …

Wigner crystallization in macroscopic systems provides a simple avenue for studying
classical many-body physics. The Coulomb repulsion of millimeter-sized conducting …

We carried out experimental studies of the self-assembly of metallic micron-size particles in
poorly conducting liquid subject to a constant electric field. Depending on the experimental …

Direct molecular dynamics simulations on interfaces at constant temperature are performed
to obtain the liquid-vapor phase diagram of the two-dimensional soft primitive model, an …