Author: Geza Odor Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814471305 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
Universal scaling behavior is an attractive feature in statistical physics because a wide range of models can be classified purely in terms of their collective behavior due to a diverging correlation length. This book provides a comprehensive overview of dynamical universality classes occurring in nonequilibrium systems defined on regular lattices. The factors determining these diverse universality classes have yet to be fully understood, but the book attempts to summarize our present knowledge, taking them into account systematically.The book helps the reader to navigate in the zoo of basic models and classes that were investigated in the past decades, using field theoretical formalism and topological diagrams of phase spaces. Based on a review in Rev. Mod. Phys. by the author, it incorporates surface growth classes, classes of spin models, percolation and multi-component system classes as well as damage spreading transitions. (The success of that review can be quantified by the more than one hundred independent citations of that paper since 2004.)The extensions in this book include new topics like local scale invariance, tricritical points, phase space topologies, nonperturbative renormalization group results and disordered systems that are discussed in more detail. This book also aims to be more pedagogical, providing more background and derivation of results. Topological phase space diagrams introduced by Kamenev (Physical Review E 2006) very recently are used as a guide for one-component, reaction-diffusion systems.
Author: Alex Kamenev Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108846440 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 514
Book Description
The physics of non-equilibrium many-body systems is a rapidly expanding area of theoretical physics. Traditionally employed in laser physics and superconducting kinetics, these techniques have more recently found applications in the dynamics of cold atomic gases, mesoscopic and nano-mechanical systems, and quantum computation. This book provides a detailed presentation of modern non-equilibrium field-theoretical methods, applied to examples ranging from biophysics to the kinetics of superfluids and superconductors. A highly pedagogical and self-contained approach is adopted within the text, making it ideal as a reference for graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics. In this Second Edition, the text has been substantially updated to include recent developments in the field such as driven-dissipative quantum systems, kinetics of fermions with Berry curvature, and Floquet kinetics of periodically driven systems, among many other important new topics. Problems have been added throughout, structured as compact guided research projects that encourage independent exploration.
Author: Malte Henkel Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402087659 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
This book describes two main classes of non-equilibrium phase-transitions: static and dynamics of transitions into an absorbing state, and dynamical scaling in far-from-equilibrium relaxation behavior and ageing.
Author: Cristiana J. Silva Publisher: Frontiers Media SA ISBN: 2832546064 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 135
Book Description
Mathematical modeling of real life phenomena is a powerful tool in analyzing and describing their dynamical behavior. These models can be optimized and controlled using appropriate optimization methods and optimal control theory. Different characterization techniques are used to explain a real natural phenomenon by numerical simulations or experimental approximations.
Author: Nick P. Proukakis Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108138624 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 663
Book Description
Following an explosion of research on Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) ignited by demonstration of the effect by 2001 Nobel prize winners Cornell, Wieman and Ketterle, this book surveys the field of BEC studies. Written by experts in the field, it focuses on Bose–Einstein condensation as a universal phenomenon, covering topics such as cold atoms, magnetic and optical condensates in solids, liquid helium and field theory. Summarising general theoretical concepts and the research to date - including novel experimental realisations in previously inaccessible systems and their theoretical interpretation - it is an excellent resource for researchers and students in theoretical and experimental physics who wish to learn of the general themes of BEC in different subfields.
Author: McGraw-Hill Education Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional ISBN: 0071782982 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 480
Book Description
Includes coverage of forefront fields such as cell and molecular biology, environmental science, genetics, information technology, nanotechnology, chemistry, and theoretical physics An extensive subject index makes finding information fast and easy Features numerous cross-references to the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and bibliographies of key literature after each article 250+ images, diagrams, and tables enhance the text
Author: Sacha Friedli Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107184827 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 643
Book Description
A self-contained, mathematical introduction to the driving ideas in equilibrium statistical mechanics, studying important models in detail.
Author: Jordan G Brankov Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814494569 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 459
Book Description
The aim of this book is to familiarise the reader with the rich collection of ideas, methods and results available in the theory of critical phenomena in systems with confined geometry. The existence of universal features of the finite-size effects arising due to highly correlated classical or quantum fluctuations is explained by the finite-size scaling theory. This theory (1) offers an interpretation of experimental results on finite-size effects in real systems; (2) gives the most reliable tool for extrapolation to the thermodynamic limit of data obtained by computer simulations; (3) reveals the intimate mechanism of how the critical singularities build up in the thermodynamic limit; and (4) can be fruitfully used to explain the low-temperature behaviour of quantum critical systems.The exposition is given in a self-contained form which presumes the reader's knowledge only in the framework of standard courses on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena. The instructive role of simple models, both classical and quantum, is demonstrated by putting the accent on the derivation of rigorous and exact analytical results.
Author: Geza Odor
Author: Alex Kamenev
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Author: Cristiana J. Silva
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Author: Nick P. Proukakis
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Author: Sacha Friedli
Author: Jordan G Brankov