Disorder and Nonlinearity
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Workshop J.R. Oppenheimer Study Center Los Alamos, New Mexico, 4-6 May, 1988
By: edited by Alan R. Bishop, David K. Campbell, Stephanos Pnevmatikos
Contributors: Campbell, David K.; Pnevmatikos, Stephanos
Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics, 0930-8989 -- 39; Springer proceedings in physics -- 39.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9783642748936
Subjects: Thermodynamics; Physics
Description: This is the first book to identify fundamental physical problems in the increasingly recognized overlap between nonlinearity and disorder. Although progress in the two fields has occurred independently and at a rapid pace in the past thirty years (solitons, polarons, deterministic chaos, and chaotic dynamics in "nonlinearity"; Anderson localization, effects of impurities, random spatial structures, and stochastic applied fields in "disorder"), disorder and nonlinearity often coexist and their separate effects can reinforce, complement or frustrate each other. This books shows how the expertise of researchers in these presently disjoint disciplines can be combined to confront common problems, for example, localization phenomena in solids.