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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Garrido, L. (Luis), 1930-
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1988]
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.