Advances in condensed matter and statistical physics
By: Elka Korutcheva and Rodolfo Cuerno, editors.
Contributors: Korutcheva, Elka.; Cuerno, Rodolfo.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Statistical physics.; Condensed matter.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Complex systems : challenges, tools, and successes -- Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Marc Barthélémy; title: Multiplicative noise in non-equilibrium phase transitions : a tutorial -- Miguel A. Muñoz; title: Self organized criticality as a phase transition -- Mikko Alava; title: Paradoxical games, ratchets, and related phenomena -- Juan M.R. Parrondo ... [et al.]; title: Stochastic population dynamics of spiking neurons -- Paolo Del Giudice, Maurizio Mattia; title: Random walks in physiologic dynamics -- Plamen Ch. Ivanov; title: Anomalous velocity distributions in inelastic Maxwell gases -- R. Brito, M.H. Ernst; title: Phase-field models in interfacial pattern formation out of equilibrium -- Ricard González-Cinca ... [et al.]; title: Universality issues in surface kinetic roughening of thin solid films -- Rodolfo Cuerno, Luis Vázquez -- The; title: minority game : an introductory guide -- Esteban Moro /; title: Low temperature properties of finite dimensional Ising spin glasses : some numerical simulations -- Juan J. Ruiz-Lorenzo; title: Multi-state neural networks based upon spin-glasses : a biased overview -- D. Bollé; title: Statistical mechanics of the Blume-Emery-Griffiths neural network model -- David Dominguez, Elka Korutcheva; title: Complexity transitions and statistical physics algorithms for hard random combinatorial problems -- Riccardo Zecchina.