Far from equilibrium phase transitions : proceedings of the Xth Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10, 1988 /
This collection of lectures covers a wide range of present day research in thermodynamics and the theory of phase transitions far from equilibrium. The contributions are written in a pedagogical style and present an extensive bibliography to help graduates organize their further studies in this area...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1988]
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| Series: | Lecture notes in physics ;
319. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- A Review of Current Issues in the Quantum Theory of Envelope Solitons
- Fluctuations in the Transient Dynamics of Nonlinear Optical Systems
- Theoretical Methods in Pattern Formation in Physics, Chemistry and Biology
- Two Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions: Stochastic Hopf Bifurcation and Onset of Relaxation Oscillations in the Diffusive Sine-Gordon Model
- Exactly Solvable Multistable Fokker-Planck Models with Arbitrarily Prescribed N Lowest Eigenvalues
- Phase and Frequency Dynamics in Laser Instabilities
- Fluctuations and Critical Phenomena in Reaction-Diffusion Systems
- From Deterministic Chaos to Noise in Retarded Feedback Systems
- Non-Local and Non-Linear Problems in the Physics of Disordered Media
- Convection in Binary Mixtures: Propagating and Standing Patterns
- Time-Dependent Phase Transitions
- Quantum Treatment of Dispersive Optical Bistability
- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Spatial Structures in Optical Systems
- Scaling for an Interfacial Instability
- Field Theory for Growth Kinetics
- List of Participants.