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Current topics in physics : in honor of Sir Roger J. Elliott /

This indispensable book is a compilation of invited talks delivered at the symposium, "Current Topics in Physics" held in Mexico City in June 2003, to celebrate the 75th birthday of Professor Sir Roger Elliott. The contributions have been prepared by research associates, former students, p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Symposium of Current Topics in Physics Mexico City
Otros Autores: Barrio, R. A. (Rafael A.), Kaski, K. (Kimmo), Elliott, R. J. (Roger J.), 1928-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Order and disorder in physics : inauguration speech / Roger Elliott
  • Ch. 1. Reflections on the beguiling but wayward spherical model / M.E. Fisher
  • Ch. 2. Phase transitions in vector spin glasses / A.P. Young
  • Ch. 3. Transitions, dynamics and disorder : from equilibrium to nonequilibrium systems / R. Stinchcombe
  • Ch. 4. Two-dimensional growth in a three component mixture with competing interactions / C. Varea
  • Ch. 5. Glassy dynamics at the edge of chaos / A. Robledo
  • Ch. 6. Flexibility in biomolecules / M.F. Thorpe, M. Chubynksy, B. Hespenheide, S. Menor, D.J. Jacobs, L.A. Kuhn, M.I. Zavodszky, M. Lei, A.J. Rader and W. Whiteley
  • Ch. 7. Lattice dynamics of carbon nanotubes / V.N. Popov and M. Balkanski
  • Ch. 8. Glassy behavior due to kinetic constraints : from topological foam to backgammon / D. Sherrington
  • Ch. 9. On glass transition with rapid cooling effects / R. Kerner and O. Mares
  • Ch. 10. The dielectric loss function and the search for simple models for relaxation in glass formers / A.P. Vieira, M. Lopez de Haro, J. Taguena-Martinez and L.L. Goncalves
  • Ch. 11. The theory of Turing pattern formation / T. Leppanen
  • Ch. 12. The dioctadecylamine monolayer : non-equilibrium phase domains / A. Flores, E. Corvera-Poire, C. Garza and R. Castillo
  • Ch. 13. Multiple scattering effects in the second harmonic generation of light reflection from a randomly rough metal surface / A.A. Maradudin, T.A. Leskova, M. Leyva-Lucero and E.R. Mendez
  • Ch. 14. Theory for large-scale electronic structure calculations / T. Fujiwara, T. Hoshi and R. Takayama
  • Ch. 15. Symmetric magnetic clusters / J.B. Parkinson, R.J. Elliott and J. Timonen
  • Ch. 16. Optical and Fermi-edge singularities in one-dimensional semiconductor quantum wires / K.P. Jain
  • Ch. 17. Probing the magnetic coupling in multilayers using domain wall excitations / A.S. Carrico and A.L. Dantas.