Dissipative Phenomena in Condensed Matter
Subtitle: Some Applications
By: by Sushanta Dattagupta, Sanjay Puri
Contributors: Puri, Sanjay
Series: Springer Series in Materials Science -- 71; Springer Series in Materials Science -- 71
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9783642057991; 9783662067581
Subjects: Physics
Description: From the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics, this graduate- and research-level volume treats the modeling and characterization of dissipative phenomena. A variety of examples from diverse disciplines like condensed matter physics, materials science, metallurgy, chemical physics etc. are discussed. Dattagupta employs the broad framework of stochastic processes and master equation techniques to obtain models for a wide range of experimentally relevant phenomena such as classical and quantum Brownian motion, spin dynamics, kinetics of phase ordering, relaxation in glasses, dissipative tunneling. It provides a pedagogical exposition of current research material and will be useful to experimentalists, computational physicists and theorists.
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Table of contents: title: Diffusion Processes; title: Kinetic Ising Models; title: An Overview of Phase Ordering Dynamics; title: Domain Growth in Systems with Quenched Disorder; title: Surface-Directed Spinodal Decomposition and Surface Enrichment; title: Phase Ordering Dynamics in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation; title: Quantum Dissipative Systems; title: Dissipative Two-State Systems; title: Quantum Diffusion; title: Coherence and Decoherence.