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Phase transitions and critical phenomena /
The field of phase transitions and critical phenomena continues to be active in research, producing a steady stream of interesting and fruitful results. It has moved into a central place in condensed matter studies. Statistical physics, and more specifically, the theory of transitions between states...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Acad. Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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- VOLUME 19 TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- General Preface
- Preface to Volume 19
- Chapter 1: Exactly solvable models for many-body systems far from equilibrium
- Gunter M. Sch�utz
- Introduction
- Quantum Hamiltonian formalism for the master equation
- Integrable stochastic processes
- Asymptotic behaviour
- Equivalences of stochastic processes
- The symmetric exclusion process
- Driven lattice gases
- Reaction-diffusion processes
- Free-fermion systems
- Experimental realizations of integrable reaction-diffusion systems
- Acknowledgements
- A. The two-dimensional vertex model
- Universality of interface fluctuations
- Exact solution for empty-interval probabilities in the ASEP with open boundaries
- Frequently-used notation
- Chapter 2: Polymerized membranes, a review
- Kay �Jrg Wiese
- Introduction and outline
- Basic properties of membranes
- Field theoretic treatment of tethered membranes
- Some useful tools and relation to polymer theory
- Proof of perturbative renormalizability
- Calculations at 2-loop order
- Extracting the physical information: Extrapolations
- Other critical exponents
- The tricritical point
- Variants
- Dynamics
- Disorder and non-conserved forces
- N-colored membranes
- Large orders
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Exercises with solutions
- References.