Complex behaviour of glassy systems
Subtitle: proceedings of the XIV Sitges conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 10-14 June 1996
By: Miguel Rubí, Conrado Pérez-Vicente, (eds.).
Contributors: Rubí, J. M.; Pérez-Vicente, Conrado, 1962-
Series: Lecture notes in physics,; 492
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Spin glasses -- Congresses.; Glass -- Congresses.
Description: For the first time this subject, including many systems of interest in Condensed Matter Physics, is treated in an unified way. Complexity emerges as one of the main ingredients dictating the collective behaviour of many systems. Glassy systems constitute one of the most interesting fields of Condensed Matter Physics for which also a considerable amount of experimental data and industial applications have been collected during the last twenty years. Systems exhibiting glassy behaviour are for example: real glasses, spin glasses, vortex flasses in superconductors, protein folding, etc. In this book the reader can see how the present theoretical understanding of these subjects is based on similar techniques and approaches hopefully allowing to develop a unifying structure that underlies the physical mechanism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.