Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales /
Systems with competing energy scales are widespread and exhibit rich and subtle behaviour, although their systematic study is a relatively recent activity. This text presents lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subje...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
1993.
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| Series: | NATO ASI series. Mathematical and physical sciences ;
415. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Systems with competing energy scales are widespread and exhibit rich and subtle behaviour, although their systematic study is a relatively recent activity. This text presents lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject, particularly with regard to phase transitions and dynamics, at an advanced tutorial level.<br/> Both general and specific aspects are considered, with competitions having several origins; differences in intrinsic interactions, interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic effects, such as geometry and disorder; irreversibility and non-equilibration. Among the specific physical application areas are supercooled liquids and glasses, high-temperature superconductors, flux or vortex pinning and motion, charge density waves, domain growth and coarsening, and electron solidification. <br/> |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401119085 (electronic bk.) 9401119082 (electronic bk.) |