Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales:
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Main Author: Riste, Tormod (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1993
Series:NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences 415
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description: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 this fascinating 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 452 p)
ISBN:9789401119085
9789401048439
ISSN:1389-2185
DOI:10.1007/978-94-011-1908-5

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