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Complex Behaviour of Glassy Systems: Proceedings of the XIV Sitges Conference Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 10–14 June 1996

By Miguel Rubi , C. A. Angell (auth.) , Conrado Pérez-Vicente (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1997
ISBN
3540630694, 9783540630692
DOI
10.1007/BFb0104813
ISSN
0075-8450
LCC
QC176.8.S68 C66 1997
Open Library ID
OL667595M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (3683506 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics 492
Edition
1
Pages
476\476
Topic
Physics
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Condensed Matter; Mathematical Methods in Physics;Information and Physics; Quantum Physics; Statisti

Description

For the first time this subject, including many systems of interest in Condensed Matter Physics, is treated in an unified way. Complexity emerges as one of the main ingredients dictating the collective behaviour of many systems. Glassy systems constitute one of the most interesting fields of Condensed Matter Physics for which also a considerable amount of experimental data and industial applications have been collected during the last twenty years. Systems exhibiting glassy behaviour are for example: real glasses, spin glasses, vortex flasses in superconductors, protein folding, etc. In this book the reader can see how the present theoretical understanding of these subjects is based on similar techniques and approaches hopefully allowing to develop a unifying structure that underlies the physical mechanism.

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