Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales
By: edited by Tormod Riste, David Sherrington
Contributors: Sherrington, David
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 415; NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 415
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789401048439; 9789401119085
Subjects: Surfaces (Physics); Physics
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Geilo, Norway, 13-23 April, 1993
Description: Systems with competing energy scales are widespread and exhibit rich and subtle behaviour, although their systematic study is a relatively recent activity. This text presents lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject, particularly with regard to phase transitions and dynamics, at an advanced tutorial level. Both general and specific aspects are considered, with competitions having several origins; differences in intrinsic interactions, interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic effects, such as geometry and disorder; irreversibility and non-equilibration. Among the specific physical application areas are supercooled liquids and glasses, high-temperature superconductors, flux or vortex pinning and motion, charge density waves, domain growth and coarsening, and electron solidification.
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