Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Geilo, Norway, 13-23 April 1993
Seiten
1993
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7923-2504-8 (ISBN)
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7923-2504-8 (ISBN)
Reviews current knowledge and understanding of systems with competing energy scales, particularly with regard to phase transitions and dynamics. Both general and scientific aspects are considered.
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 the 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.
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 the 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.
Reihe/Serie | NATO ASI ; v. 415 |
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Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
Sprache | englisch |
Einbandart | gebunden |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7923-2504-4 / 0792325044 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7923-2504-8 / 9780792325048 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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