Sushanta Dattagupta, Sanjay Puri

Dissipative Phenomena in Condensed Matter

Some Applications

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A reference and text, Dissipative Phenomena treats the broadly applicable area of nonequilibrium statistical physics and concentrates the modelling and characterization of dissipative phenomena. A variety of examples from diverse disciplines, such as condensed matter physics, materials science, metallurgy, chemical physics, are discussed. Dattagupta employs a broad framework of stochastic processes and master equation techniques to obtain models for a range of experimentally relevant phenomena such as classical and quantum Brownian motion, spin dynamics, kinetics of phase ordering, relaxation in glasses, and dissipative tunnelling. This book will serve as a graduate/research level textbook since it offers considerable utility to experimentalists, computational physicists and theorists.

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From the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics, this graduate- and research-level volume treats the modeling and characterization of dissipative phenomena. A variety of examples from diverse disciplines like condensed matter physics, materials science, metallurgy, chemical physics etc. are discussed. Dattagupta employs the broad framework of stochastic processes and master equation techniques to obtain models for a wide range of experimentally relevant phenomena such as classical and quantum Brownian motion, spin dynamics, kinetics of phase ordering, relaxation in glasses, dissipative tunneling. It provides a pedagogical exposition of current research material and will be useful to experimentalists, computational physicists and theorists.

Produktdetails

• Springer Series in Materials Science 71
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-20381-0
• 2004
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9783540203810
• ISBN-10: 3540203818
• Artikelnr.: 12355923

Autorenporträt

S. Dattagupta, University of Hyderabad, India / Sanjay Puri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Inhaltsangabe

1 Diffusion Processes.- 2 Kinetic Ising Models.- 3 An Overview of Phase Ordering Dynamics.- 4 Domain Growth in Systems with Quenched Disorder.- 5 Surface-Directed Spinodal Decomposition and Surface Enrichment.- 6 Phase Ordering Dynamics in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation.- 7 Quantum Dissipative Systems.- 8 Dissipative Two-State Systems.- 9 Quantum Diffusion.- 10 Coherence and Decoherence.- References.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "A reference and text, this book treats the broadly applicable area of nonequilibrium statistical physics and concentrates the modeling and characterization of dissipative phenomena. A variety of examples from diverse disciplines ... are discussed. ... This book will serve as a graduate/research level textbook since it offers considerable utility to experimentalists, computational physicists and theorists." (Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, Issue: 11, 2004)