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Solitons /
In the twenty years since Zabusky and Kruskal coined the term ``soliton'', this concept changed the outlook on certain types of nonlinear phenomena and found its way into all branches of physics. The present volume deals with a great variety of applications of the new concept in condensed-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York : New York, NY, USA :
North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Publishers,
1986.
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| Colección: | Modern problems in condensed matter sciences ;
v. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Solitons; Copyright Page; Preface to the series; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Solitons in biology; 1. Introduction; 2. Collective excitations in quasi-periodic molecular structures; 3. Soliton excitations in one-dimensional molecular systems; 4. Dynamical properties of solitons; 5. Solitons in molecular systems with a nonlinear interaction between molecules; References; Chapter 2. Experimental observation of a Davydov-like soliton; 1. Introduction; 2. Davydov's soliton theory; 3. Self-trapping in crystalline acetanilide; 4. The quantum theory of self-trapping
- 5. Biological significance of self-trappingReferences; Chapter 3. Thermodynamics of two-dimensional soliton systems; 1. Incommensurate phases and solitons; 2. Solitons in two dimensions; 3. Soliton collisions; 4. The phase diagram of the C-I transition; 5. Experiments; 6. Quantum and thermal fluctuations in one-dimensional systems; 7. The fermion analogy; 8. Phase transition into a soliton liquid; 9. Superconducting films; 10. Pinned soliton structures; References; Chapter 4. Spin dynamics of Heisenberg chains; 1. Introduction; 2. s = 1/2 xxz Heisenberg chains
- 3. s = 1 Heisenberg ferromagnets4. Classical spin dynamics; Note added in proof; References; Chapter 5. Solitons and nonlinear phenomena in parametrically excited spin waves; Introduction; Part I
- The S-theory; 1. Parametric instability of waves, in magnetdielectrics; 2. The stationary post-threshold state. The S-theory and its comparison with experiment; 3. Collective excitations and auto-oscillations of the magnetization; 4. Strong turbulence and self-focusing of solitons at the parametric excitation of waves; Part II
- The S,T2-theory; 5. Main equations of the S,T2-theory
- 6. Parametric excitation of waves in media with random inhomogeneities7. Spectral density of parametrically excited waves: spectral solitons; 8. Structure of the distribution function in /:-space: /:-solitons; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6. Soliton model of polyacetylene; Apology; 1. Introduction; 2. Solitons in the simplest models of polyacetylene; 3. Phenomenological treatment of the soliton model and extension to other systems; 4. Classical dynamical properties and collective coordinates; 5. Quantum effects; 6. Effects of electron-electron interactions; 7. Three-dimensional effects