Professor Stephen Blundell

This book by Prof Tom Lancaster and myself was published by Oxford University Press in January 2025. General relativity lies at the heart of modern physics and represents the pinnacle of Albert Einstein’s celebrated work. Despite being mentioned as a motivation in huge numbers of applications to university physics courses, many future physicists leave university without having engaged with perhaps the most famous of all modern theories of physics.

This edited volume provides a modern introduction to the use of muons as a probe for studying magnets, superconductors, semiconductors, chemistry, dynamics and much more.  (Published on 10 November 2021).

This book by Prof Tom Lancaster and myself was published by Oxford University Press in April 2014. Using numerous worked examples, diagrams, and careful physically motivated explanations, this book will smooth the path towards understanding the radically different and revolutionary view of the physical world that quantum field theory provides, and which all physicists should have the opportunity to experience. Link

This short introduction to magnetism was published by Oxford University Press in June 2012. The Very Short Introduction series represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities.Link.

This short introduction to superconductivity is published by Oxford University Press in May 2009. The Very Short Introduction series represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities.Link.

I have written a textbook, together with Professor Katherine Blundell, which was published by Oxford University Press in July 2006. The second edition was published in October 2009. This covers kinetic theory, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and applications in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, information theory and many other areas. Link.

My textbook on magnetism was published by Oxford University Press in October 2001. It takes the reader from the basics of the quantum mechanics of magnetism through to symmetry breaking, excitations and applications. Link.