This volume is an introduction to nonlinear waves and soliton theory in the special environment of compact spaces such a closed curves and surfaces and other domain contours. It assumes familiarity with basic soliton theory and nonlinear dynamical systems. The first part of the …
This title focuses on situations and phenomena in physics implicating the systems that are not in thermodynamic balance.
Exact methods in low-dimensional statistical physics and quantum computing: École d'été de Physique des Houches, session LXXX…
by Cugliandolo, Leticia F., École d'été de Physique théorique, Les Houches, Haute-Savoie), Serban, Didina, Jacobsen, Jesper, Duplantier, Bertrand, Fröhlich, Jürg, Saleur, Hubert, Thouless, David James, Affleck, Ian, Ouvry, Stéphane, Alet, Fabien, Cardy, John L., Cooper, Nigel R., Feigel'man, Mikhail Victorovich, Haldane, F. Duncan M., Jolicoeur, Thierry, Kenyon, Richard, Kitaev, Alexei Ju, Kostov, Ivan, Krauth, Werner, Majumdar, Satya, Misguich, Grégoire, Nienhuis, Bernard, Reshetikhin, Nikolaï, Werner, Wendelin, Zinn-Justin, Paul, Pasquier, Vincent
Nanoscale miniaturization and femtosecond laser-pulse spectroscopy require a quantum mechanical description of the carrier kinetics that goes beyond the conventional Boltzmann theory. On these extremely short length and time scales the electrons behave like partially coherent wa…
Understanding the effect of disorder on critical phenomena is a central issue in statistical mechanics. In probabilistic terms: what happens if we perturb a system exhibiting a phase transition by introducing a random environment? The physics community has approached this very b…
This concise primer (based on lectures given at summer schools on complex systems and on a masters degree course in complex systems modeling) will provide graduate students and newcomers to the field with the basic knowledge of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and…
This book is composed of two texts, by R.L. Dobrushin and S. Kusuoka, each representing the content of a course of lectures given by the authors. They are pitched at graduate student level and are thus very accessible introductions to their respective subjects for students and n…
Viscoelasticity (or rheology) is a highly mathematical subject, interfacing several disciplines, from applied mathematics to mechanics and engineering. Other books on rheology are usually comprehensive to such a degree that students find it hard to isolate the important physical…
