New Directions In Statistical Physics

Author : Luc T. Wille
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 369 pages
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Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662089682

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New Directions in Statistical Physics by Luc T. Wille Pdf

This book provides a unique insight into the latest breakthroughs in a consistent manner, at a level accessible to undergraduates, yet with enough attention to the theory and computation to satisfy the professional researcher Statistical physics addresses the study and understanding of systems with many degrees of freedom. As such it has a rich and varied history, with applications to thermodynamics, magnetic phase transitions, and order/disorder transformations, to name just a few. However, the tools of statistical physics can be profitably used to investigate any system with a large number of components. Thus, recent years have seen these methods applied in many unexpected directions, three of which are the main focus of this volume. These applications have been remarkably successful and have enriched the financial, biological, and engineering literature. Although reported in the physics literature, the results tend to be scattered and the underlying unity of the field overlooked.

Author : Luc T Wille
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662089696

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New Directions in Statistical Physics by Luc T Wille Pdf

Author : Luc T Wille,Murray T Batchelor
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814544160

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Statistical Physics On The Eve Of The 21st Century: In Honour Of J B Mcguire On The Occasion Of His 65th Birthday by Luc T Wille,Murray T Batchelor Pdf

This volume is a collection of original papers and reviews in honour of James McGuire, one of the pioneers of integrable models in statistical physics. The broad range of articles offers a timely perspective on the current status of statistical mechanics, identifying both recent results as well as future challenges. The work contains a number of overviews of standard topics such as exactly solved lattice models and their various applications in statistical physics, from models of strongly correlated electrons to the conformational properties of polymer chains. It is equally wide ranging in its coverage of new directions and developing fields including quantum computers, financial markets, chaotic systems, Feigenbaum scaling, proteins, brain behaviour, immunology, Markov superposition, Bose-Einstein condensation, random matrices, exclusion statistics, vertex operator algebras and D-unsolvability.The level of coverage is appropriate for graduate students. It will be equally of interest to professional physicists who want to learn about progress in statistical physics in recent years. Experts will find this work useful because of its broad sweep of topics and its discussion of remaining unsolved problems.

Author : Shahnaz N. Shahbazova,Ali M. Abbasov,Vladik Kreinovich,Janusz Kacprzyk,Ildar Z. Batyrshin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031234767

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Recent Developments and the New Directions of Research, Foundations, and Applications by Shahnaz N. Shahbazova,Ali M. Abbasov,Vladik Kreinovich,Janusz Kacprzyk,Ildar Z. Batyrshin Pdf

This book is a collection of papers presented during the 8th World Conference on Soft Computing in February 2022. The papers cover multiple areas important for soft computing. Some papers are dedicated to fundamental aspects of soft computing, i.e., fuzzy mathematics, type-2 fuzzy sets, evolutionary-based optimization, aggregation, and neural networks. Others emphasize the application of soft computing methods to data analysis, image processing, decision-making, classification, series prediction, economics, control, and modeling.

Author : Maria Carla Galavotti,Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Stephan Hartmann,Thomas Uebel,Marcel Weber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319043821

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New Directions in the Philosophy of Science by Maria Carla Galavotti,Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Stephan Hartmann,Thomas Uebel,Marcel Weber Pdf

This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further investigation. It explores how discussions on several notions of the philosophy of science can help different scientific disciplines in learning from each other. Finally, it focuses on the relationship between Cambridge and Vienna in twentieth century philosophy of science. The areas examined in the book are: formal methods, the philosophy of the natural and life sciences, the cultural and social sciences, the physical sciences and the history of the philosophy of science.

Author : A. Engel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521774799

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Statistical Mechanics of Learning by A. Engel Pdf

Learning is one of the things that humans do naturally, and it has always been a challenge for us to understand the process. Nowadays this challenge has another dimension as we try to build machines that are able to learn and to undertake tasks such as datamining, image processing and pattern recognition. We can formulate a simple framework, artificial neural networks, in which learning from examples may be described and understood. The contribution to this subject made over the last decade by researchers applying the techniques of statistical mechanics is the subject of this book. The authors provide a coherent account of various important concepts and techniques that are currently only found scattered in papers, supplement this with background material in mathematics and physics and include many examples and exercises to make a book that can be used with courses, or for self-teaching, or as a handy reference.

Author : Alphose Zingoni
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000824315

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Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling and Design of Structural Systems by Alphose Zingoni Pdf

Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling and Design of Structural Systems comprises 330 papers that were presented at the Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2022, Cape Town, South Africa, 5-7 September 2022). The topics featured may be clustered into six broad categories that span the themes of mechanics, modelling and engineering design: (i) mechanics of materials (elasticity, plasticity, porous media, fracture, fatigue, damage, delamination, viscosity, creep, shrinkage, etc); (ii) mechanics of structures (dynamics, vibration, seismic response, soil-structure interaction, fluid-structure interaction, response to blast and impact, response to fire, structural stability, buckling, collapse behaviour); (iii) numerical modelling and experimental testing (numerical methods, simulation techniques, multi-scale modelling, computational modelling, laboratory testing, field testing, experimental measurements); (iv) design in traditional engineering materials (steel, concrete, steel-concrete composite, aluminium, masonry, timber); (v) innovative concepts, sustainable engineering and special structures (nanostructures, adaptive structures, smart structures, composite structures, glass structures, bio-inspired structures, shells, membranes, space structures, lightweight structures, etc); (vi) the engineering process and life-cycle considerations (conceptualisation, planning, analysis, design, optimization, construction, assembly, manufacture, maintenance, monitoring, assessment, repair, strengthening, retrofitting, decommissioning). Two versions of the papers are available: full papers of length 6 pages are included in an e-book, while short papers of length 2 pages, intended to be concise but self-contained summaries of the full papers, are in this printed book. This work will be of interest to civil, structural, mechanical, marine and aerospace engineers, as well as planners and architects.

Author : Frédéric Abergel,Hideaki Aoyama,Bikas K. Chakrabarti,Anirban Chakraborti,Nivedita Deo,Dhruv Raina,Irena Vodenska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319477053

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Econophysics and Sociophysics: Recent Progress and Future Directions by Frédéric Abergel,Hideaki Aoyama,Bikas K. Chakrabarti,Anirban Chakraborti,Nivedita Deo,Dhruv Raina,Irena Vodenska Pdf

This book presents the proceedings from ECONOPHYS-2015, an international workshop held in New Delhi, India, on the interrelated fields of “econophysics” and “sociophysics”, which have emerged from the application of statistical physics to economics and sociology. Leading researchers from varied communities, including economists, sociologists, financial analysts, mathematicians, physicists, statisticians, and others, report on their recent work, discuss topical issues, and review the relevant contemporary literature. A society can be described as a group of people who inhabit the same geographical or social territory and are mutually involved through their shared participation in different aspects of life. It is possible to observe and characterize average behaviors of members of a society, an example being voting behavior. Moreover, the dynamic nature of interaction within any economic sector comprising numerous cooperatively interacting agents has many features in common with the interacting systems of statistical physics. It is on these bases that interest has grown in the application within sociology and economics of the tools of statistical mechanics. This book will be of value for all with an interest in this flourishing field.

Author : Antonio M. Scarfone
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783038974697

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New Trends in Statistical Physics of Complex Systems by Antonio M. Scarfone Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "New Trends in Statistical Physics of Complex Systems" that was published in Entropy

Author : Gheorghe Savoiu
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780124046269

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Econophysics by Gheorghe Savoiu Pdf

The remarkable evolution of econophysics research has brought the deep synthesis of ideas derived from economics and physics to subjects as diverse as education, banking, finance, and the administration of large institutions. The original papers in this collection present a broad summary of these advances, written by interdisciplinary specialists. Included are studies on subjects in the development of econophysics; on the perspectives offered by econophysics on large problems in economics and finance, including the 2008-9 financial crisis; and on higher education and group decision making. The introductions and insights they provide will benefit everyone interested in applications of this new transdisciplinary science. Ten papers present an updated version of the origins, issues, and applications of econophysics Economics and finance chapters consider lessons learned from the 2008-9 financial crisis Sociophysics chapters propose new thinking on educational reforms and group decision making

Author : Franz Wegner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662491706

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Supermathematics and its Applications in Statistical Physics by Franz Wegner Pdf

This text presents the mathematical concepts of Grassmann variables and the method of supersymmetry to a broad audience of physicists interested in applying these tools to disordered and critical systems, as well as related topics in statistical physics. Based on many courses and seminars held by the author, one of the pioneers in this field, the reader is given a systematic and tutorial introduction to the subject matter. The algebra and analysis of Grassmann variables is presented in part I. The mathematics of these variables is applied to a random matrix model, path integrals for fermions, dimer models and the Ising model in two dimensions. Supermathematics - the use of commuting and anticommuting variables on an equal footing - is the subject of part II. The properties of supervectors and supermatrices, which contain both commuting and Grassmann components, are treated in great detail, including the derivation of integral theorems. In part III, supersymmetric physical models are considered. While supersymmetry was first introduced in elementary particle physics as exact symmetry between bosons and fermions, the formal introduction of anticommuting spacetime components, can be extended to problems of statistical physics, and, since it connects states with equal energies, has also found its way into quantum mechanics. Several models are considered in the applications, after which the representation of the random matrix model by the nonlinear sigma-model, the determination of the density of states and the level correlation are derived. Eventually, the mobility edge behavior is discussed and a short account of the ten symmetry classes of disorder, two-dimensional disordered models, and superbosonization is given.

Author : Rainer Klages,Wolfram Just,Christopher Jarzynski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527658725

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Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Small Systems by Rainer Klages,Wolfram Just,Christopher Jarzynski Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive picture of nonequilibrium phenomena in nanoscale systems. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, this book strikes a balance between theory and experiment, and includes in-depth introductions to nonequilibrium fluctuation relations, nonlinear dynamics and transport, single molecule experiments, and molecular diffusion in nanopores. The authors explore the application of these concepts to nano- and biosystems by cross-linking key methods and ideas from nonequilibrium statistical physics, thermodynamics, stochastic theory, and dynamical systems. By providing an up-to-date survey of small systems physics, the text serves as both a valuable reference for experienced researchers and as an ideal starting point for graduate-level students entering this newly emerging research field.

Author : Kishore Chandra Dash
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527538887

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The Story of Econophysics by Kishore Chandra Dash Pdf

This book will appeal to the lay-reader with an interest in the history of what is today termed ‘Econophysics’, looking at various works throughout the ages that have led to the emergence of this field. It begins with a discussion of the philosophers and scientists who have contributed to this discipline, before moving on to considering the contributions of different institutions, books, journals and conferences in nurturing the subject.

Author : Felix Binder,Luis A. Correa,Christian Gogolin,Janet Anders,Gerardo Adesso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319990460

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Thermodynamics in the Quantum Regime by Felix Binder,Luis A. Correa,Christian Gogolin,Janet Anders,Gerardo Adesso Pdf

Quantum Thermodynamics is a novel research field which explores the emergence of thermodynamics from quantum theory and addresses thermodynamic phenomena which appear in finite-size, non-equilibrium and finite-time contexts. Blending together elements from open quantum systems, statistical mechanics, quantum many-body physics, and quantum information theory, it pinpoints thermodynamic advantages and barriers emerging from genuinely quantum properties such as quantum coherence and correlations. Owing to recent experimental efforts, the field is moving quickly towards practical applications, such as nano-scale heat devices, or thermodynamically optimised protocols for emergent quantum technologies. Starting from the basics, the present volume reviews some of the most recent developments, as well as some of the most important open problems in quantum thermodynamics. The self-contained chapters provide concise and topical introductions to researchers who are new to the field. Experts will find them useful as a reference for the current state-of-the-art. In six sections the book covers topics such as quantum heat engines and refrigerators, fluctuation theorems, the emergence of thermodynamic equilibrium, thermodynamics of strongly coupled systems, as well as various information theoretic approaches including Landauer's principle and thermal operations. It concludes with a section dedicated to recent quantum thermodynamics experiments and experimental prospects on a variety of platforms ranging from cold atoms to photonic systems, and NV centres.

Author : Giovanni Felder,Gian Michele Graf,Klaus Hepp,Jürg Fröhlich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402088868

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A Journey through Statistical Physics by Giovanni Felder,Gian Michele Graf,Klaus Hepp,Jürg Fröhlich Pdf

This book contains selected papers of Jürg Fröhlich, one of the most outstanding mathematical physicists of our time, on the subject of statistical mechanics. In an extensive introduction, Jürg Fröhlich sets his results into a wider context and gives precious information on the genesis of his work from both a historical and a methodological perspective. It is not only an overview of current and future research directions in statistical mechanics, but also relates this subject with other branches of contemporary physics and mathematics. All papers in this collection bear Jürg Fröhlich’s signature in terms of a delicate balance between mathematical rigor and physical significance. They cover thirty years of his work on statistical physics, ranging from the most basic foundational questions in atomism and thermodynamics via the description of phase transitions and critical phenomena up to disordered systems and the study of many-body systems in condensed matter physics, including the quantum Hall effect. The wide range of topics covered in this compendium reflects the breadth of Jürg Fröhlich’s interests, and the last chapters reveal an outlook towards some of his more recent research areas.