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A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media

From Physics to Biology and Social Sciences

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Jürgen Parisi
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  2. Stefan C. Müller
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  3. Walter Zimmermann
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 503)

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Quantum chaos in Rydberg atoms

    • H. Held, J. Schlichter, H. Walther
    Pages 1-18

  3. Crystallization of electrons and holes

    • P. Fulde
    Pages 19-30

  4. Natural patterns in nonequilibrium systems

    • M. Bestehorn, R. Friedrich
    Pages 31-44

  5. Linear aspects of the Faraday instability

    • Hanns Walter Müller
    Pages 45-60

  6. On curved cellular flames

    • Andreas G. Class
    Pages 61-74

  7. Nonlinear flow behavior and shear-induced structure of fluids

    • Siegfried Hess
    Pages 75-95

  8. Experimental study of horizontally shaken granular matter — The swelling effect

    • Thorsten Pöschel, Dirk E. Rosenkranz
    Pages 96-109

  9. On relaxational granular compaction

    • Stefan J. Linz
    Pages 110-121

  10. From microscopic to macroscopic traffic models

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 122-139

  11. The modelling concept of sociodynamics

    • Wolfgang Weidlich
    Pages 140-162

  12. The morphogenesis of dictyostelium discoideum — Pattern formation in a biological excitable system

    • Florian Siegert, Bakhtier Vasiev, Cornelis J. Weijer
    Pages 163-178

  13. Path optimization in chemical and biological systems on the basis of excitation waves

    • Oliver Steinbock
    Pages 179-191

  14. BSE viewed dynamically: A possible early cure based on passive immunization against PrPSc

    • Otto E. Rössler, John L. Hudson, Reimara Rössler, Jürgen Parisi
    Pages 192-196

  15. Molecular semiotic structures in the cellular immune system: Key to dynamics and spatial patterning?

    • Walter Schubert
    Pages 197-206

  16. Molecular evolutionary dynamics

    • Christian V. Forst
    Pages 207-226

  17. The retinal spreading depression: A model for nonlinear behavior of the brain

    • Wolfgang Hanke, Markus Goldermann, Sabine Brand, Vera Maura Fernandes de Lima
    Pages 227-243

  18. An analytically solvable model of collective excitation patterns in cortical tissue

    • Werner M. Kistler, J. Leo van Hemmen
    Pages 244-270

  19. Interaction of meandering spiral waves in active media

    • H. Brandtstädter, M. Braune, H. Engel
    Pages 271-282

  20. Spatiotemporal patterns in a passivating electrochemical system

    • R. D. Otterstedt, N. I. Jaeger, P. J. Plath, J. L. Hudson
    Pages 283-291
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About this book

Concepts of nonlinear physics are applied to an increasing number of research disciplines. With this volume, the editors offer a selection of articles on nonlinear topics in progress, ranging from physics and chemistry to biology and some applications of social science. The book covers quantum optics, electron crystallization, cellular or flow patterns in fluids and in granular media, biological systems, and the control of brain structures via neuronal excitation. Chemical patterns are looked at both in bulk solutions and on surfaces in heterogeneous systems. From regular structures, the authors turn to the more complex behavior in biology and physics, such as hydrodynamical turbulence, low-dimensional dynamics in solid-state physics, and gravity.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media

  • Book Subtitle: From Physics to Biology and Social Sciences

  • Editors: Jürgen Parisi, Stefan C. Müller, Walter Zimmermann

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0104950

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-63995-4Published: 26 February 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-14190-8Published: 19 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69681-0Published: 06 May 2007

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 376

  • Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Biochemistry, general, Immunology, Physical Chemistry

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