Neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy is the highest energy resolution neutron scattering technique available for examining a large area (in time and space) in condensed matter physics. This broad dynamic and spatial range is extensively exploited in the study of a wide range of scientific problems ranging from the dynamics of glasses, polymer melts, complex fluids and microemulsions to the elementary excitations in superfluid 4He and to ferromagnets and spin glasses. This book reviews the current status and future prospects in NSE spectroscopy describing the method, latest instrumentation and also the use of NSE in fundamental, hard- and soft-matter science. It provides first-hand information for researchers working in the fields touched by NSE. In addition, young researchers, PhD students and graduates interested in the method will obtain a comprehensive overview and guidelines to implementing the NSE technique.

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Basic Science and Technology.- Fundamentals of Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy.- Time-of-Flight Neutron Spin Echo: Present Status.- Wide Angle Neutron Spin Echo and Time-of-Flight Spectrometer.- Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer at B.A.R.C. Trombay.- Compact Neutron Spin Echo Device with Foil Spin Flippers.- Modified Neutron Spin Echo with Spectrum Modulation: Specific Feature and Applications.- Neutron Resonance Spin Echo - Triple Axis Spectrometry (NRSE-TAS).- Elastic Neutron Scattering Measurements Using Larmor Precession of Polarized Neutrons.- Technical Aspects of Larmor Precession with Inclined Front and End Faces.- Space-Time View of Neutron Spin Echo, Correlation Functions and Phonon Focusing.- Neutron Spin Echo as a Quantum Interference System.- Neutron Speed Echo Spectroscopy.- Neutron Spin Precession Optics: Recent Results and Some Perspectives.- Future Developments in Resonance Spin Echo.- Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometers of the Next Generation - Where Are the Limits?.- Applications in Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences.- Use of the Neutron Spin Echo Technique to Observe Flux Line Motion.- Dynamics of Frustrated Magnetic Moments in Antiferromagnetically Ordered TbNiAl Probed by Spin Echo and Time-of-Flight Spectroscopy.- Critical Slowing Down in a Simple Fluid System as Measured by Neutron Spin Echo Technique. Crossover Between Hydrodynamics and Critical Dynamics.- Soft Matter and Biology.- Dynamics of Glass Forming Polymers by Neutron Spin Echo.- Elastic and Quasielastic Neutron Scattering on Liquid Isotopic and Binary Blends of Low Molecular Mass Poly(siloxanes).- Neutron Spin Echo Study of the Dynamics in BIS Cross-Linked Poly(N-Isopropyl Acrylamide) Microgels: Dependence on the Cross-Linker Concentration.- Dynamical Fluctuation of Cylindrical Micelles and Membranes in Binary and Ternary Amphiphilic Microemulsion Systems.- Dynamics of Hydrophobically Modified Polymer Doped Surfactant Bilayers: A Neutron Spin Echo Study.- Neutron Resonance Spin Echo: Oxygen Transport in Crowded Protein Solutions.