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Microscopic Aspects of Nonlinearity in Condensed Matter

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 264)

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Complexity and Chaos

    1. Space Time Complexity in Quantum Optics

      • F. T. Arecchi
      Pages 1-17
    2. Critical Phenomena in Hamiltonian Chaos

      • Boris V. Chirikov
      Pages 19-44
    3. Time Evolution of Random Cellular Patterns

      • Kyozi Kawasaki, Tatsuzo Nagai, Tohru Okuzono
      Pages 57-67
    4. From Chaos to Quasicrystals

      • G. M. Zaslavsky
      Pages 83-93
    5. A Model of a Catalytic Reaction with Local Interactions

      • F. Bagnoli, B. Sente, M. Dumont
      Pages 95-99
  3. Coherent Structures

    1. Bipolaronic Charge Density Waves

      • Serge Aubry
      Pages 105-114
    2. Polarons in Quasi-One-Dimensional Materials

      • Dionys Baeriswyl
      Pages 115-124
    3. Solitons in Charge Density Wave Crystals

      • S. Brazovskii, S. Matveenko
      Pages 125-135
    4. Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains

      • Hans-J. Mikeska, Seiji Miyashita, Gerald Ristow
      Pages 167-175
    5. Solitons and Twistons in Conducting Polymers

      • S. Brazovskii, N. Kirova
      Pages 185-188
    6. On the Motion of Vortex Pairs in the Anisotropic Heisenberg Model

      • A. R. Völkel, F. G. Mertens, A. R. Bishop, G. M. Wysin
      Pages 189-192
  4. Physics of Quantum Devices

    1. Oscillations Due to Many-Body Effects in Resonant Tunneling

      • F. Capasso, G. Jona-Lasinio, C. Presilla
      Pages 193-196

Editors and Affiliations

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    A. R. Bishop

  • Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR

    V. L. Pokrovsky

  • University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    V. Tognetti

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