Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Coherence and Large Deviations:

Many mesoscopic systems display 'adaptive' behaviour - changes in some physical property that results from a small change in an internal or external driving force. There is a kind of progression in adaptive phenomena, from quantum mesoscopics to complex, evolved cooperative systems and lar...

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Other Authors: Skjeltorp, Arne T. (Editor), Vicsek, Tamás (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2002
Series:NATO Science Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 63
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Online Access:UBT01
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Summary:Many mesoscopic systems display 'adaptive' behaviour - changes in some physical property that results from a small change in an internal or external driving force. There is a kind of progression in adaptive phenomena, from quantum mesoscopics to complex, evolved cooperative systems and large scale events like turbulence. The field of mesoscopic magnetism, especially quantum coherence and quantum tunnelling in spin systems, and the coupling between mesoscopic magnetism and mesoscopic transport is currently a very active area of solid state physics. 'Dephasing' is an important concept in mesoscopic systems like these. A basic question is the limit at which quantum mechanics breaks down and what it can be replaced with. Another interesting crossover is that between complexity and large excursions or events, with turbulence as a prototype example. The book also contains a discussion of finance. Qualitatively speaking, turbulence and financial markets are apparently similar, so our understanding of turbulence may be relevant to understanding price fluctuations
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XV, 230 p. 26 illus)
ISBN:9789401004190
DOI:10.1007/978-94-010-0419-0

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