Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales: 415 (Nato Science Series C:, 415) - Softcover

 
9789401048439: Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales: 415 (Nato Science Series C:, 415)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9401048436 ISBN 13: 9789401048439
Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9401048436
ISBN 13 
9789401048439
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
466
Editor
Riste T., Sherrington David

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9780792325048: Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Geilo, Norway, 13-23 April 1993: v. 415 (NATO ASI)

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ISBN 10:  0792325044 ISBN 13:  9780792325048
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