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Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales

Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales

Sherrington, David
Riste, T.

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Series: NATO Science Series C:, Book 415

Technology & EngineeringPhysics

ISBN10: 9401048436
ISBN13: 9789401048439
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 31 2012
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Systems with competing energy scales are widespread and exhibit rich and subtle behaviour, although their systematic study is a relatively recent activity. This text presents lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject, particularly with regard to phase transitions and dynamics, at an advanced tutorial level.
Both general and specific aspects are considered, with competitions having several origins; differences in intrinsic interactions, interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic effects, such as geometry and disorder; irreversibility and non-equilibration. Among the specific physical application areas are supercooled liquids and glasses, high-temperature superconductors, flux or vortex pinning and motion, charge density waves, domain growth and coarsening, and electron solidification.

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