Fluctuations Instabilities And Phase Transitions

Author : T. Riste
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 389 pages
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Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461589129

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Fluctuations, Instabilities, and Phase Transitions by T. Riste Pdf

This book contains the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Geilo, Norway, 11th - 20th April 1975. The institute was the third in a row devoted to phase transitions. The previous two dealt with 2nd- and 1st-order transitions in equilibrium systems and the proceedings have been published.i~ In order to make an overlap wi th those institutes, the first part of this institute was devoted to 1st -or der transitions with an emphasis on the problems of metast abi l i t y and instability en countered i n spinodal decomposition, nucleation etc. The main topic was, however, that of non-equilibrium systems, and the present institute was to our knowledge the first one devoted to the physics of such systems. The discovery of the analogy between phase transitions in equilibrium systems and instabilities in non-equilibrium systems was first made by Rolf Landauer in 1961 and later independently by others. The analogy was first pointed out for electronic devices (tunnel diodes, Gunn oscillators, lasers, etc. ) and the treatment of hydrodynamic instabilities followed later.

Author : T. Riste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461589134

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Fluctuations, Instabilities, and Phase Transitions by T. Riste Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:840708288

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FLUCTUATIONS, INSTABILITIES, AND PHASE TRANSITIONS by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tormod Riste
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 479 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468441277

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Nonlinear Phenomena at Phase Transitions and Instabilities by Tormod Riste Pdf

This NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Geilo between March 29th and April 9th 1981, was the sixth in a series devoted to the subject of phase transitions and instabilities. The present institute was intended to provide a forum for discussion of the importance of nonlinear phenomena associated with instabilities in systems as seemingly disparate as ferroelectrics and rotating buckets of oil. Ten years ago, at the first Geilo school, the report of a central peak in the fluctuation spectrum of SrTi0 close to its 3 106 K structural phase transition demonstrated that the simple soft-mode theory of such transitions was incomplete. The missing ingredient was the essential nonlinearity of the system. Parti cipants at this year's Geilo school heard assessments of a decade of experimental and theoretical effort which has been expended to elucidate the nature of this nonlinearity. The importance of order ed clusters and the walls which bound them was stressed in this con text. A specific type of wall, the soliton, was discussed by a number of speakers. New experimental results which purport to demonstrate the existence of solitons in a one-dimensional ferromagnet were presented. A detailed discussion was given of the role of solitons in transport phenomena in driven multistable systems, typified by a sine-Gordon chain.

Author : V. I. Yukalov,A. S. Shumovsky
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 997150474X

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Lectures on Phase Transitions by V. I. Yukalov,A. S. Shumovsky Pdf

This book treats the problem of phase transitions, emphasizing the generality and universality of the methods and models used. The course is basically concentrated on the problems of vacuum degeneration in macroscopic systems and a fundamental concept of quasiaverages by Bogolubov playing a special role in the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena. An analysis of the connection between phase transition and spontaneous symmetry breaking in a macroscopic system allows a unique description of both first- and second-order phase transitions.The unique features of this book are: (i) a unique approach of describing first ? as well as second-order phase transitions, based on the Bogolubov concept of quasi-averages.(ii) a detailed presentation of the material and at the same time a review of modern problems.(iii) a general character of developed ideas that could be applied to various particular systems of condensed matter physics, nuclear physics and high-energy physics.

Author : T. Riste,David Sherrington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401119085

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Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales by T. Riste,David Sherrington Pdf

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. 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.

Author : Aleksandr Zakharovich Patashinskiĭ,Valeriĭ Leonidovich Pokrovskiĭ
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017216444

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Fluctuation Theory of Phase Transitions by Aleksandr Zakharovich Patashinskiĭ,Valeriĭ Leonidovich Pokrovskiĭ Pdf

Author : Tormod Riste,David Sherrington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461305514

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Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter by Tormod Riste,David Sherrington Pdf

This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Geilo, Norway, between 4 - 14 April 1989. This Institute was the tenth in a series held at Geilo on the subject of phase transitions. It was the first to be concerned with the growing area of soft condensed matter, which is neither ordinary solids nor ordinary liquids, but somewhere in between. The Institute brought together many lecturers, students and active researchers in the field from a wide range of NATO and some non-NATO countries, with financial support principally from the NATO Scientific Affairs Division but also from Institutt for energiteknikk, the Nor wegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF), The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics (NORDITA), the Norwegian Physical Society and VISTA, a reserach cooperation between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s (STATOIL). The organizing committee would like to thank all these contributors for their help in promoting an exciting and rewarding meeting, and in doing so are confident that they echo the appreciation also of all the participants. 50ft condensed matter is characterized by weak interactions between polyatomic constituents, by important·thermal fluctuations effects, by mechanical softness and by a rich range of behaviours. The main emphasis at this Institute was on the fundamental collective physics, but prepar ation techniques and industrial applications were also considered.

Author : H.Z. Cummins,A.P. Levanyuk
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444599858

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Light Scattering Near Phase Transitions by H.Z. Cummins,A.P. Levanyuk Pdf

Since the development of the laser in the early 1960's, light scattering has played an increasingly crucial role in the investigation of many types of phase transitions and the published work in this field is now widely dispersed in a large number of books and journals. A comprehensive overview of contemporary theoretical and experimental research in this field is presented here. The reviews are written by authors who have actively contributed to the developments that have taken place in both Eastern and Western countries.

Author : Yuriy M. Bunkov,Henri Godfrin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401141062

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Topological Defects and the Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Symmetry Breaking Phase Transitions by Yuriy M. Bunkov,Henri Godfrin Pdf

Topological defects formed at symmetry-breaking phase transitions play an important role in many different fields of physics. They appear in many condensed-matter systems at low temperature; examples include vortices in superfluid helium-4, a rich variety of defects in helium-3, quantized mag netic flux tubes in type-II superconductors, and disclination lines and other defects in liquid crystals. In cosmology, unified gauge theories of particle interactions suggest a sequence of phase transitions in the very early uni verse some of which may lead to defect formation. In astrophysics, defects play an important role in the dynamics of neutron stars. In 1997 the European Science Foundation started the scientific network "Topological defects" headed by Tom Kibble. This network has provided us with a unique opportunity of establishing a collaboration between the representatives of these very different branches of modern physics. The NATO-ASI (Advanced Study Institute), held in Les Houches in February 1999 thanks to the support of the Scientific Division of NATO, the European Science Foundation and the CNRS, represents a key event of this ESF network. It brought together participants from widely different fields, with diverse expertise and vocabulary, fostering the exchange of ideas. The lectures given by particle physicists, cosmologists and condensed matter physicists are the result of the fruitful collaborations established since 1997 between groups in several European countries and in the U.S.A.

Author : A. A. Raduta
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812770417

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Collective Motion and Phase Transitions in Nuclear Systems by A. A. Raduta Pdf

This volume contains the invited contributions that were presented at the Predeal International Summer School in Nuclear Physics 2006. It covers the recent achievements in the fields of nuclear structure, double beta decay, nuclear multifragmentation, kaon and dilepton production in heavy ion collisions, and the quarkOCogluon plasma. The treatment is both theoretical and experimental, with emphasis on the collective aspects and related phase transitions. The papers are authored by many leading researchers in the field."

Author : Morton E. Gurtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
ISBN : UCAL:B4197319

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Phase Transformations and Material Instabilities in Solids by Morton E. Gurtin Pdf

Phase Transformations and Material Instabilities in Solids ...

Author : W. Horsthemke,R. Lefever
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540368526

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Noise-Induced Transitions by W. Horsthemke,R. Lefever Pdf

The study of phase transitions is among the most fascinating fields in physics. Originally limited to transition phenomena in equilibrium systems, this field has outgrown its classical confines during the last two decades. The behavior of far from equilibrium systems has received more and more attention and has been an extremely active and productive subject of research for physicists, chemists and biologists. Their studies have brought about a more unified vision of the laws which govern self-organization processes of physico-chemical and biological sys tems. A major achievement has been the extension of the notion of phase transi tion to instabilities which occur only in open nonlinear systems. The notion of phase transition has been proven fruitful in apphcation to nonequilibrium ins- bihties known for about eight decades, like certain hydrodynamic instabilities, as well as in the case of the more recently discovered instabilities in quantum optical systems such as the laser, in chemical systems such as the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction and in biological systems. Even outside the realm of natural sciences, this notion is now used in economics and sociology. In this monograph we show that the notion of phase transition can be extend ed even further. It apphes also to a new class of transition phenomena which occur only in nonequilibrium systems subjected to a randomly fluctuating en vironment.

Author : Tormod Riste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1468441280

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Nonlinear Phenomena at Phase Transitions and Instabilities by Tormod Riste Pdf

Author : Yuli M. Ivanchenko,Alexander A. Lisyansky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461242048

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Physics of Critical Fluctuations by Yuli M. Ivanchenko,Alexander A. Lisyansky Pdf

Building on Wilson's renormalization group, the authors have developed a unified approach that not only reproduces known results but also yields new results. A systematic exposition of the contemporary theory of phase transitions, the book includes detailed discussions of phenomena in Heisenberg magnets, granular super-conducting alloys, anisotropic systems of dipoles, and liquid-vapor transitions. Suitable for advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students in physics, the text assumes some knowledge of statistical mechanics, but is otherwise self-contained.