| Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions: Volume 1: Absorbing Phase Transitions 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Henkel, Malte (Author), Hinrichsen, Haye (Author), Lübeck, Sven (Author) |
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ISBN: 9400796609 ISBN-13: 9789400796607 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Technology & Engineering | Materials Science - General |
| Dewey: 530.414 |
| Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.24 lbs) 385 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |