Dissipative Phenomena in Condensed Matter: Some Applications

✍ Scribed by Professor Sushanta Dattagupta, Professor Sanjay Puri (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science 71
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics, this graduate- and research-level volume treats the modeling and characterization of dissipative phenomena. A variety of examples from diverse disciplines like condensed matter physics, materials science, metallurgy, chemical physics etc. are discussed. Dattagupta employs the broad framework of stochastic processes and master equation techniques to obtain models for a wide range of experimentally relevant phenomena such as classical and quantum Brownian motion, spin dynamics, kinetics of phase ordering, relaxation in glasses, dissipative tunneling. It provides a pedagogical exposition of current research material and will be useful to experimentalists, computational physicists and theorists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Diffusion Processes....Pages 1-29
Kinetic Ising Models....Pages 31-55
An Overview of Phase Ordering Dynamics....Pages 57-72
Domain Growth in Systems with Quenched Disorder....Pages 73-103
Surface-Directed Spinodal Decomposition and Surface Enrichment....Pages 105-146
Phase Ordering Dynamics in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation....Pages 147-172
Quantum Dissipative Systems....Pages 173-203
Dissipative Two-State Systems....Pages 205-245
Quantum Diffusion....Pages 247-261
Coherence and Decoherence....Pages 263-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-310

✦ Subjects

Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems