Malte Henkel, Haye Hinrichsen, Sven Lübeck

Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions

Volume 1: Absorbing Phase Transitions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes two main classes of non-equilibrium phase-transitions: (a) static and dynamics of transitions into an absorbing state, and (b) dynamical scaling in far-from-equilibrium relaxation behaviour and ageing.

The first volume begins with an introductory chapter which recalls the main concepts of phase-transitions, set for the convenience of the reader in an equilibrium context. The extension to non-equilibrium systems is made by using directed percolation as the main paradigm of absorbing phase transitions and in view of the richness of the known results an entire chapter is devoted to it, including a discussion of recent experimental results. Scaling theories and a large set of both numerical and analytical methods for the study of non-equilibrium phase transitions are thoroughly discussed.

The techniques used for directed percolation are then extended to other universality classes and many important results on model parameters are provided for easy reference.

Produktdetails

• Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
• Verlag: Canopus Academic Publishing Limited / Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 12322138, 978-1-4020-8764-6
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9781402087646
• ISBN-10: 1402087640
• Artikelnr.: 23899535

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction. 2 Survey of Equilibrium Critical Phenomena. 3 Directed percolation. 4 Scaling Properties of Absorbing Phase Transitions 4.1 Scaling in the Steady State. 5 Universality classes different from directed percolation. Appendices: A Equilibrium Models A.1 Potts model A.2 Clock model A.3 Turban model A.4 Baxter-Wu model A.5 Blume-Capel model A.6 XY model A.7 O(n) model A.8 Double exchange model A.9 Frustrated spin models A.10 Hilhorst-van Leeuven model B Scaling Laws C Diagonalisation of Time-Evolution Operators D Langevin Equations and Path Integrals E Mean-Field Approximations E.1 Simple mean-field/site approximation E.2 Pair-approximation E.3 The 'hop-away' mean-field approximation F On Finite-Size Scaling Techniques F.1 Sequences of finite-size estimates F.2 Sequence extrapolation G Numerical Methods G.1 Simulational techniques G.2 Computation of response functions. Solutions. Frequently Used Symbols. Abbreviations. References. Index.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:
"This book is the second of a two-volume work on non-equilibrium phase transitions ... . a well written and valuable introduction to these problems, for mathematicians as well as for physicists. ... The book finishes with several appendices, where the reader can be reminded of useful physical and mathematical results ... a large section where the almost one hundred problems proposed throughout the book are fully worked out, and a huge and very useful reference list of more than seven hundred fifty items." (Fernando Pestana da Costa, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 j)