Disorder and Nonlinearity: Proceedings of the Workshop, J R Oppenheimer Study Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 4-6 May, 1988 (Springer Proceedings in Physics) - Softcover

Bishop, A. R.; Campbell, D. K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387513744 ISBN 13: 9780387513744

Publisher: Springer Verlag, 1989

Synopsis

This is the first book to identify fundamental physical problems in the increasingly recognized overlap between nonlinearity and disorder. Although progress in the two fields has occurred independently and at a rapid pace in the past thirty years (solitons, polarons, deterministic chaos, and chaotic dynamics in "nonlinearity"; Anderson localization, effects of impurities, random spatial structures, and stochastic applied fields in "disorder"), disorder and nonlinearity often coexist and their separate effects can reinforce, complement or frustrate each other. This books shows how the expertise of researchers in these presently disjoint disciplines can be combined to confront common problems, for example, localization phenomena in solids.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387513744
• ISBN 13: 9780387513744
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Pnevmatikos S.