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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Phase Transitions: Modern Applications (2nd
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive review of the theory of phase transitions and its modern applications, based on the five pillars of the modern theory of phase transitions: the Ising model, mean field, scaling, renormalization group and universality. This expanded second edition includes, along with a description of vortices and high temperature superconductivity, a discussion of phase transitions in chemical reactions and moving systems. The book covers the close connection between phase transitions and small world phenomena as well as scale-free systems such as the stock market and the Internet.
£38.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Perspectives And Challenges In Statistical
Book SynopsisStatistical Physics (SP) has followed an unusual evolutionary path in science. Originally aiming to provide a fundamental basis for another important branch of Physics, namely Thermodynamics, SP gradually became an independent field of research in its own right. But despite more than a century of steady progress, there are still plenty of challenges and open questions in the SP realm.In fact, the area is still rapidly evolving, in contrast to other branches of science, which already have well defined scopes and borderlines of applicability. This difference is due to the steadily expanding number of applications, as well as ongoing improvements and revisions of concepts and methods in SP. Such particular aspects of SP lend further significance and timeliness to this book about perspectives and trends within the field.Here, the aim is to present the state-of-the-art vision of expert researchers who study SP and Complex Systems. Although a comprehensive treatment is well beyond what can be treated in a single volume, the book provides a snapshot of the field today, as well as a glimpse of where the field may be heading during the next decade.The book is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate physics students, as well as researchers who work with SP, Complex Systems, Computational Physics, Biological Physics and related topics. It addresses questions such as: What insights can be gained from recent advances in the study of traditional problems in SP? How can SP help us understand problems that arise in the biological sciences and in the study of complex systems? How can new problems be formulated using the ‘language’ of SP? In this way, it attempts to document partial progress in answering these and related questions.The book also commemorates the occasion of the 70th anniversary in 2011 of two important physicists and friends who dedicated their lives to the understanding of nature in general and to the development of Statistical Physics and the science of Complexity in particular: Liacir Lucena and H Eugene Stanley.Table of ContentsFurther Advances in the Analysis of Traditional Problems in Statistical Physics: Comparing Methods and Monte Carlo Algorithms at Phase Transition Regimes: A General Overview (C E Fiore); Elementary Statistical Models for Nematic Transitions in Liquid-Crystalline Systems (D B Liarte & S R Salinas); On Some Experimental Reasons for an Inhomogeneous Structure of Ambient Water on the Nanometer Length Scale (F Mallamace et al.); New Insights Into Traditional Problems in Statistical Physics: Topological and Geometrical Aspects of Phase Transitions (F A N Santos et al.); Exact Solution for a Diffusive Process on a Backbone Structure: Green Function Approach and External Force (E K Lenzi et al.); Applications to Biological Problems: Nanoelectronics of a DNA Molecule (E L Albuquerque et al.); Social Distancing Strategies Against Disease Spreading (L D Valdez et al.); Non-Traditional Problems Related to Complex Systems: Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Granular Materials (G M Kremer); Search Strategy: Hedging Your Bet (M F Shlesinger).
£99.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Quantum Statistical Mechanics: Selected Works Of
Book SynopsisIn this book we have solved the complicated problem of constructing upper bounds for many-time averages for the case of a fairly broad class of model systems with four-fermion interaction. The methods proposed in this book for solving this problem will undoubtedly find application not only for the model systems associated with the theory of superconductivity considered here. The theoretical methods developed in Chapters 1 and 2 are already applicable to a much broader class of model systems from statistical physics and the theory of elementary particles.Table of ContentsOn the Theory of Superfluidity; Quasi-Averages in Problems of Statistical Mechanics; Hydrodynamics Equations in Statistical Mechanics; On the Hydrodynamics of a Superfluid Liquid; On the Model Hamiltonian of Superconductivity; Model Hamiltonians with Fermion Interaction;
£94.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Oscillator And Pendulum With A Random Mass
Book SynopsisStochastic descriptions of a harmonic oscillator can be obtained by adding additive noise, or/and three types of multiplicative noise: random frequency, random damping and random mass. The first three types of noise were intensively studied in many published articles. In this book the fourth case, that of random mass, is considered in the context of the harmonic oscillator and its immediate nonlinear generalization — the pendulum. To our knowledge it is the first book fully dedicated to this problem.Two interrelated methods, the Langevin equation and the Fokker-Planck equations, as well as the Lyapunov stability method are used for the mathematical analysis. After a short introduction, the two main parts of the book describe the different properties of the random harmonic oscillator and the random pendulum with random masses. As an example, the stochastic resonance is studied, where the noise plays an unusual role, increasing the applied weak periodic signal, and also the vibration resonance in dynamic systems, where the role of noise is played by the second high-frequency periodic signal.First and second averaged moments have been calculated for a system with different types of additive and multiplicative noises, which define the stability of a system. The calculations have been extended to two multiplicative noises and to quadratic noise. This book is useful for students and scientists working in different fields of statistical physics.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Oscillator with Random Mass; Pendulum with Random Mass;
£64.60
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Statistical Physics: Fundamentals And Application
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide the fundamentals of statistical physics and its application to condensed matter. The combination of statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics has provided an understanding of properties of matter leading to spectacular technological innovations and discoveries in condensed matter which have radically changed our daily life.The book gives the steps to follow to understand fundamental theories and to apply these to real materials.Table of ContentsFundamentals of Statistical Physics: Basic Concepts and Tools in Statistical Physics; Isolated Systems: Micro-Canonical Description; Systems at a Constant Temperature: Canonical Description; Open Systems at Constant Temperature: Grand-Canonical Description; Free Fermi Gas; Free Boson Gas; Systems of Interacting Particles: Method of Second Quantization; Application to Condensed Matter: Symmetry in Crystalline Solids; Interacting Atoms in Crystals: Phonons; Systems of Interacting Electrons - Fermi Liquids; Electrons in Crystalline Solids: Energy Bands; Systems of Interacting Spins: Magnons; Systems of Interacting Spins: Phase Transitions; Superconductivity; Transport in Metals and Semiconductors; Solutions of Problems: Solutions of Problems of Part 1; Solutions of Problems of Part 2; Appendices: Appendix A: Mathematical Complements and Table of Constants; Appendix B: Sommerfeld's Expansion at Low Temperatures; Appendix C: Origin of the Heisenberg Model; Appendix D: Hubbard Model: Superexchange; Appendix E: Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transition; Appendix F: Low- and High-Temperature Expansions of the Ising Model;
£108.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Statistical Physics: Fundamentals And Application
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide the fundamentals of statistical physics and its application to condensed matter. The combination of statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics has provided an understanding of properties of matter leading to spectacular technological innovations and discoveries in condensed matter which have radically changed our daily life.The book gives the steps to follow to understand fundamental theories and to apply these to real materials.Table of ContentsFundamentals of Statistical Physics: Basic Concepts and Tools in Statistical Physics; Isolated Systems: Micro-Canonical Description; Systems at a Constant Temperature: Canonical Description; Open Systems at Constant Temperature: Grand-Canonical Description; Free Fermi Gas; Free Boson Gas; Systems of Interacting Particles: Method of Second Quantization; Application to Condensed Matter: Symmetry in Crystalline Solids; Interacting Atoms in Crystals: Phonons; Systems of Interacting Electrons - Fermi Liquids; Electrons in Crystalline Solids: Energy Bands; Systems of Interacting Spins: Magnons; Systems of Interacting Spins: Phase Transitions; Superconductivity; Transport in Metals and Semiconductors; Solutions of Problems: Solutions of Problems of Part 1; Solutions of Problems of Part 2; Appendices: Appendix A: Mathematical Complements and Table of Constants; Appendix B: Sommerfeld's Expansion at Low Temperatures; Appendix C: Origin of the Heisenberg Model; Appendix D: Hubbard Model: Superexchange; Appendix E: Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transition; Appendix F: Low- and High-Temperature Expansions of the Ising Model;
£61.75
Jenny Stanford Publishing The Physics of Liquid Water
Book SynopsisUnraveling the mystery of the negative thermal expansion of liquid water has been a challenge for scientists for centuries. Various theories have been proposed so far, but none has been able to solve this mystery. Since the thermodynamic properties of matter are determined by the interaction between particles, the mystery can be solved fundamentally if the thermodynamic physical quantities using the laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are determined, the experimental results are reproduced, and the phenomena in relation to the shape of the interaction between particles are elucidated. In this sense, this book has fundamentally unraveled this mystery. In addition, it discusses the mysteries of isothermal compressibility, structural diversity, as well as liquefaction and boiling points of water in relation to the shape of the interaction between particles. It carefully explains the analysis and calculation methods so that they can be easily understood by the readers. Table of Contents1. Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Fluids 2. Strange Temperature Change of Water Density 3. Fundamental Clarification of Thermodynamic Phenomena in Water 4. Variety of Shapes of Water-Molecule Interactions 5. Ornstein-Zernike Equation 6. Calculation Procedure of SCOZA 7. Pressure and Chemical Potential 8. Thermodynamic Properties of Subcritical Fluids
£110.20
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Crude Look At The Whole A A Decade Later Insights
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£130.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Analytical Fluid Dynamics In Lagrangian Variables
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£104.71
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Microphone In Hand Interviews Forewords Reviews
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£45.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Introduction To Statistics And Data Analysis For
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£112.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Statistical Mechanics For Beginners A Textbook
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£85.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Statistical Mechanics For Beginners A Textbook
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£52.25
EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Braid Group, Knot Theory And Statistical
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Braid Group, Knot Theory And Statistical
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£39.90
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Statistical Mechanics
Book SynopsisThis is a unique and exciting graduate and advanced undergraduate text written by a highly respected physicist who had made significant contributions to the subject. This book conveys to the reader that statistical mechanics is a growing and lively subject. It deals with many modern topics from a physics standpoint in a very physical way. Particular emphasis is given to the fundamental assumption of statistical mechanics S=1n and its logical foundation. Calculational rules are derived without resorting to abstract ensemble theory.Trade Review"A delight to read and provides such a firm foundation for further study in statistical mechanics that I, for one, will use it the next time I teach introductory statistical mechanics." Journal of Statistical Physics (USA) "This book could potentially take a place alongside the classic monograph of Landau and Lifshitz as a valuable reference tool. Ma's book will almost certainly provide a challenge to the intellects of a growing number of active researchers. The instructor who adopts the book as a primary text will welcome the generous number of problems that appear at the end of each of the 30 chapters." Physics Today "We liked this book when it first came out (and so we said in one of these reviews), and we like it even better now. It has pleasant probabilistic overtones and few pictures (which often in statistical mechanics are not a replacement for a thousand words, but for a lack of proof)." Advances in Mathematics
£102.60
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Statistical Mechanics
Book SynopsisThis is a unique and exciting graduate and advanced undergraduate text written by a highly respected physicist who had made significant contributions to the subject. This book conveys to the reader that statistical mechanics is a growing and lively subject. It deals with many modern topics from a physics standpoint in a very physical way. Particular emphasis is given to the fundamental assumption of statistical mechanics S=1n and its logical foundation. Calculational rules are derived without resorting to abstract ensemble theory.Trade Review"A delight to read and provides such a firm foundation for further study in statistical mechanics that I, for one, will use it the next time I teach introductory statistical mechanics." Journal of Statistical Physics (USA) "This book could potentially take a place alongside the classic monograph of Landau and Lifshitz as a valuable reference tool. Ma's book will almost certainly provide a challenge to the intellects of a growing number of active researchers. The instructor who adopts the book as a primary text will welcome the generous number of problems that appear at the end of each of the 30 chapters." Physics Today "We liked this book when it first came out (and so we said in one of these reviews), and we like it even better now. It has pleasant probabilistic overtones and few pictures (which often in statistical mechanics are not a replacement for a thousand words, but for a lack of proof)." Advances in Mathematics
£45.60
