Author : Yaneer Bar-yam
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0429717598
This book aims to develop models and modeling techniques that are useful when applied to all complex systems. It adopts both analytic tools and computer simulation. The book is intended for students and researchers with a variety of backgrounds.
Author : Michael Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521770505
An account of how complex patterns form in sustained nonequilibrium systems; for graduate students in biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.
Author : Tim Langen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319185640
This work presents a series of experiments with ultracold one-dimensional Bose gases, which establish said gases as an ideal model system for exploring a wide range of non-equilibrium phenomena. With the help of newly developed tools, like full distributions functions and phase correlation functions, the book reveals the emergence of thermal-like transient states, the light-cone-like emergence of thermal correlations and the observation of generalized thermodynamic ensembles. This points to a natural emergence of classical statistical properties from the microscopic unitary quantum evolution, and lays the groundwork for a universal framework of non-equilibrium physics. The thesis investigates a central question that is highly contested in quantum physics: how and to which extent does an isolated quantum many-body system relax? This question arises in many diverse areas of physics, and many of the open problems appear at vastly different energy, time and length scales, ranging from high-energy physics and cosmology to condensed matter and quantum information. A key challenge in attempting to answer this question is the scarcity of quantum many-body systems that are both well isolated from the environment and accessible for experimental study.
Author : Uwe C. Täuber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521842239
A comprehensive and unified introduction to describing and understanding complex interacting systems.
Author : Rainer Klages
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527658726
This book offers a comprehensive picture of nonequilibrium phenomena in nanoscale systems. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, this book strikes a balance between theory and experiment, and includes in-depth introductions to nonequilibrium fluctuation relations, nonlinear dynamics and transport, single molecule experiments, and molecular diffusion in nanopores. The authors explore the application of these concepts to nano- and biosystems by cross-linking key methods and ideas from nonequilibrium statistical physics, thermodynamics, stochastic theory, and dynamical systems. By providing an up-to-date survey of small systems physics, the text serves as both a valuable reference for experienced researchers and as an ideal starting point for graduate-level students entering this newly emerging research field.
Author : Roberto Livi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107049547
A comprehensive and pedagogical text on nonequilibrium statistical physics, covering topics from random walks to pattern formation.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2001-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309073421
Physics at the beginning of the twenty-first century has reached new levels of accomplishment and impact in a society and nation that are changing rapidly. Accomplishments have led us into the information age and fueled broad technological and economic development. The pace of discovery is quickening and stronger links with other fields such as the biological sciences are being developed. The intellectual reach has never been greater, and the questions being asked are more ambitious than ever before. Physics in a New Era is the final report of the NRC's six-volume decadal physics survey. The book reviews the frontiers of physics research, examines the role of physics in our society, and makes recommendations designed to strengthen physics and its ability to serve important needs such as national security, the economy, information technology, and education.
Author : Vladimir Privman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 1997-02-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 052155974X
Self-contained and up-to-date guide to one-dimensional reactions, dynamics, diffusion and adsorption.
Author : Xavier de Hemptinne
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789810209261
This book stresses the role of uncorrelated exchange of properties between macroscopic systems and their surroundings as the only source of dynamic irreversibility. To that end, fundamentals of statistical thermodynamics extended to the non-equilibrium are worked out carefully. The principles are then applied to selected problems in classical fluid dynamics. Transport coefficients are first derived from basic laws. This is followed by a full discussion of transitions to dissipative structures in selected systems far removed from equilibrium (Bnard and Taylor vortices, calculation of the critical Reynolds number for transition to turbulence in Poiseuille flow). The final part focuses on interaction of matter with light. Fundamentals are extended towards quantum-mechanical systems. Applied to coherent radiation and its interaction with matter, the proposed thermodynamic treatment introduces an original discussion into the quantum nature of micro-physics.The book questions and reconsiders a deeply rooted paradigm in macroscopic dynamics concerning the cause of irreversibility. The new proposal is illustrated by application to a couple of well documented non-equilibrium domains, namely fluid dynamics and laser physics.
Author : Eric Bertin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642239234
This concise primer (based on lectures given at summer schools on complex systems and on a masters degree course in complex systems modeling) will provide graduate students and newcomers to the field with the basic knowledge of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and its potential for application to interdisciplinary topics. Indeed, in recent years, statistical physics has begun to attract the interest of a broad community of researchers in the field of complex system sciences, ranging from biology to the social sciences, economics and computer science. More generally, a growing number of graduate students and researchers feel the need to learn some basic concepts and questions originating in other disciplines without necessarily having to master all of the corresponding technicalities and jargon. Generally speaking, the goals of statistical physics may be summarized as follows: on the one hand to study systems composed of a large number of interacting ‘entities’, and on the other to predict the macroscopic (or collective) behavior of the system considered from the microscopic laws ruling the dynamics of the individual ‘entities’. These two goals are, to some extent, also shared by what is nowadays called ‘complex systems science’ and for these reasons, systems studied in the framework of statistical physics may be considered as among the simplest examples of complex systems—allowing in addition a rather well developed mathematical treatment.
