Cooperative dynamics in complex physical systems
Subtitle: proceedings of the Second Yukawa International Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, August 24-27, 1988
By: edited by Hajime Takayama
Contributors: Takayama, Hajime
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics, 0172-7389 -- 43; Springer series in synergetics -- 43.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9783642745546
Description: Many novel cooperative phenomena found in a variety of systems studied by scientists can be treated using the uniting principles of synergetics. Examples are frustrated and random systems, polymers, spin glasses, neural networks, chemical and biological systems, and fluids. In this book attention is focused on two main problems. First, how local, topological constraints (frustrations) can cause macroscopic cooperative behavior: related ideas initially developed for spin glasses are shown to play key roles also for optimization and the modeling of neural networks. Second, the dynamical constraints that arise from the nonlinear dynamics of the systems: the discussion covers turbulence in fluids, pattern formation, and conventional 1/f noise. The volume will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current development of work on complex systems, which is presently one of the most challenging subjects in statistical and condensed matter physics.
Table of contents: title: New Type of Phase Transitions in Frustrated Systems, Polymers, etc; title: Spin Glasses and Related Random Systems; title: Optimization Problems and Neural Network Models; title: Nonlinear Dynamics in Fluids, Chemical and Biological Systems, etc.