Heat Capacity and Thermal Expansion at Low Temperatures

This monograph is for the physicist, engineer, material scientist and graduate student concerned with solids (and fluids) at low temperatures. The authors, respectively a theorist and an experimentalist with many years of cryogenic experience, have collaborated to cover the closely related areas of heat capacity, thermal expansion and elastic stiffness. They include chapters on the fundamental principles and the observed behaviour of representative materials, such as cubic crystals, anisotropic solids, glasses, polymers, magnetic materials, superconductors, and composites. It also features coverage of measurement techniques and tables of data on technical and reference materials.