Microscopic Aspects of Nonlinearity in Condensed Matter

Herausgegeben:Bishop, Alan R.; Pokrovsky, V. L.; Tognetti, V.

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Produktbeschreibung

The collection of articles in this volume represents the proceedings of the inau gural Conference of the Institute of Theoretical Matter Physics at the University of Florence, Italy, June 7-13, 1990. The aim of this Institute (sponsored by the Con sorzio Interuniversitario di Fisica della Materia, INFM) is to foster interdisciplinary approaches to theoretical problems in Solid State, Electronics and Optics. Corre spondingly, the Conference surveyed a broad scope of modern analytic techniques in nonlinear science and their application to novel liquids, solids and optical environ ments. The Conference was held at Centro Studi CISL, a magnificent Villa up to Florence. The major topics addressed through survey and specialized lectures, discussions and posters were: Complexity and Coherence in spin glasses, associative distribu tive memory, low dimensional electronic materials, magnets, Josephson junction ar rays, optics, semiconductors, convection cells, material science, high-temperature superconductivity; Physics of Quantum Devices such as nonlinear feedback oscilla tors, macroscopic quantum tunneling, hetero structures, quantum ballistic devices, tunneling in atomic devices; Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics, especially for soliton-bearing and quantum chaotic systems. Many exciting ideas and results were presented and debated in lively fashion. Perhaps two major themes were evident throughout the workshop.

Produktdetails

• Nato Science Series B: 264
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4684-5963-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781468459630
• ISBN-10: 1468459635
• Artikelnr.: 39510984

Inhaltsangabe

I. Complexity and Chaos.- Space Time Complexity in Quantum Optics.- Critical Phenomena in Hamiltonian Chaos.- Statistical Properties of the Transition to Spatiotemporal Chaos.- Time Evolution of Random Cellular Patterns.- Defects and Order to Disorder Transition in Non-Equilibrium Structures.- From Chaos to Quasicrystals.- A Model of a Catalytic Reaction with Local Interactions.- Chaos in the Driven Damped Pendulum Studied by a Non-Equilibrium - to - Equilibrium Mapping.- II. Coherent Structures.- Bipolaronic Charge Density Waves.- Polarons in Quasi-One-Dimensional Materials.- Solitons in Charge Density Wave Crystals.- Hydrodynamics of Classical and Quantum Liquid with Free Surface.- Collective Transport in Charge and Spin Density Waves.- Propagating Compression Waves in a Damped ac-Driven Chain of Kinks.- Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains.- Dynamic Maps and Attractor Phase-Structures in Randomly Dilute Neural Networks.- Solitons and Twistons in Conducting Polymers.- On the Motion of Vortex Pairs in the Anisotropic Heisenberg Model.- III. Physics of Quantum Devices.- Oscillations Due to Many-Body Effects in Resonant Tunneling.- Computer Simulation of Tunneling in Atomic-Size Devices.- Quantum Ballistic Transport.- Few Remarks about Small Capacitance Josephson Junctions.- Dynamics of Tunneling Systems in Metals.- Analytical Dynamics of Modulated Systems.- Study of the Continuous Spectrum of Semiconductor Heterostructures.- IV. Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics.- Raman Scattering of Light by Electrons in Superconductors with a Small Correlation Length.- Quantum Solitons on Quantum Chaos: Coherent Structures, Anyons and Statistical Mechanics.- Stark Effect for Difference Schrödinger Operator.- Double Peak Structure in the Density of States of a Kondo Lattice.- LowTemperature Analysis of Microemulsion Model.- Quantum Monte Carlo Computation of Static and Time-Dependent Thermodynamic Properties of Lennard-Jones Crystals.- Exact Free Energy of a KSSH Model in d-Dimensions.- Nonlinear Properties of the BCS Gap Equation.- Results of Mode Coupling Theory for the Paramagnetic and Critical Spin Fluctuations in Heisenberg Magnets.- Quantum Thermodynamics of an Anharmonic N-N Chain.- Spectrum of the Fermi-Linearized Extended Hubbard Model on a Dimer.- Localized Excitations in 1-D Peierls-Hubbard Models of Polyacetylene and MX Chains.- Microscopic Spin Wave Study of the Co/Cu(100) Epitaxial Monolayer.- Dynamic Scaling in the Two-Dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet.- Contributors.