ENGLISH

Ageing and the Glass Transition

By Malte Henkel , Michel Pleimling , Roland Sanctuary

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2007
ISBN
3540696830, 9783540696834, 9783540696841
DOI
10.1007/b11815419
ISSN
0075-8450
Open Library ID
OL12810225M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2798876 bytes)
Series
Lecture notes in physics 716
Edition
1
Pages
360\360
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
молекулярная и статистическая физикаФизика;Термодинамика

Description

Understanding cooperative phenomena far from equilibrium is one of fascinating challenges of present-day many-body physics. Glassy behaviour and the physical ageing process of such materials are paradigmatic examples. The present volume, primarily intended as introduction and reference for postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers from related fields, collects six extensive lectures addressing selected experimental and theoretical issues in the field of glassy systems. Lecture 1 gives an introduction and overview of the time-dependent behaviour of magnetic spin glasses. Lecture 2 is devoted to an in-depth discussion on the nature of the thermal glass-transition in structural glasses. Lecture 3 examines the glassy behaviour of granular systems. Lecture 4 gives a thorough introduction to the techniques and applications of Monte-Carlo simulations and the analysis of the resulting data through scaling methods. Lecture 5 introduces the zero-range-process concept as simple but subtle model to describe a range of static and dynamic properties of glassy systems. Lecture 6 shows how familiar RG methods for equilibrium systems can be extended to systems far from equilibrium.

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