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The career structure and funding of the universities [. . . ] currently strongly d- courages academics and faculties from putting any investment into teaching there are no career or ?nancial rewards in it. This is a great pity, because [. . . ] it is the need toengage indialogue,and to makethings logicaland clear,that istheprimary defence against obscurantism and abstraction. B. Ward-Perkins, The fall of Rome, Oxford (2005) This is the ?rst volume of a planned two-volume treatise on non-equilibrium phase transitions. While such a topic might sound rather special and a- demic, non-equilibrium critical phenomena occur in much wider contexts than their equilibrium counterparts, and without having to ?ne-tune th- modynamic variables to their critical values in each case. As a matter of fact, most systems in Nature are out of equilibrium. Given that the theme of non-equilibrium phase transitions of second order is wide enough to amount essentially to a treatment of almost all theoretical aspects of non-equilibrium many-body physics, a selection of topics is required to keep such a project within a manageable length. Therefore, Vol. 1 discusses a particular kind of non-equilibrium phase transitions, namely those between an active, ?- tuating state and absorbing states. Volume 2 (to be written by one of us (MH) with M. Pleimling) will be devoted to ageing phenomena.
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This book describes two main classes of non-equilibrium phase-transitions: static and dynamics of transitions into an absorbing state, and dynamical scaling in far-from-equilibrium relaxation behavior and ageing.
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Detailansicht
Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions
eBook - Volume 1: Absorbing Phase Transitions, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
ISBN/EAN: 9781402087653
Umbreit-Nr.: 1600807
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 387 S., 5.12 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 27.11.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
E-Book
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