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Energy Transfer Dynamics

Studies and Essays in Honor of Herbert Fröhlich on His Eightieth Birthday

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  • © 1987

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  1. Terence W. Barrett

    1. W.J. Schafer Associates Inc., Arlington, USA

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  2. Herbert A. Pohl

    1. Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Physics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Nonadiabatic Processes in Surface Physics

      • T. B. Grimley
      Pages 3-10

    3. Dielectrics — The Fröhlich Connection

      • D. G. Frood, T. J. Gallagher, B. K. P. Scaife
      Pages 11-15

    4. Some Comments on the Role of Electrodes in Dielectric Breakdown of Solids

      • J. J. O’Dwyer
      Pages 16-20

    5. Multipolar Fluctuations in a Dielectric Sphere

      • B. K. P. Scaife
      Pages 21-23

    6. Nonlinear Physics of Electronic and Optical Materials for Submicron Device Applications

      • T. W. Barrett
      Pages 24-48

    7. Relativistic Characteristics of Electrons in Simple Nonparabolic Energy Bands

      • P. T. Landsberg
      Pages 49-53

    8. Breakdown of Invariants in Nonlinear Systems

      • L. E. Reichl, W. A. Lin
      Pages 54-60

    9. Dynamics of Interacting Electrons in Aperiodic Solids

      • M. Pollak
      Pages 61-74

    10. Quantum Statistical Basis of Thermodynamics with Phase Structure

      • G. L. Sewell
      Pages 75-92

    11. On Molecular Control

      • T. W. Barrett
      Pages 93-97

    12. Structure of Liquid 1-Alkanols and Some Isomers

      • W. G. Scaife
      Pages 98-111

    13. Surface Transport in Time and Frequency Domains

      • A. K. Jonscher
      Pages 112-135

    14. Absolute Entropy and the Problem of Microscopic Measurement

      • L. Tisza
      Pages 136-145

    15. From Theoretical Physics to Biology: The Forward Path of Theory with Herbert Fröhlich

      • G. J. Hyland
      Pages 146-163
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On three occasions and at different locations, conferences were held to honor the eightieth birthday of Professor Herbert Frohlich: on the 18th December, 1985, in Liverpool, England; on the 14th February, 1986, in Stuttgart, Germany; and on the 8th March, 1986, on the Palm Coast, Florida. This Festschrift is a compilation of the papers of those conferences. Frohlich's choice of problems, from the earliest days, was couched in the phy­ sics of intrinsically interacting systems of excitation. One example, in which he set the course of research which is still followed, concerned dielectric breakdown, developed from the 1930's over several decades. The interacting systems are the electrons (receiving energy from an electric field) and lattice atom motion (taking energy from the electrons via "electron-phonon" interaction, hence heat dissipa­ tion). There is a threshold field above which the latter cannot keep up with the former, and the combined system (electrons plus phonons) "runs away"; that is to say, collectively it switches to a new state.

Editors and Affiliations

  • W.J. Schafer Associates Inc., Arlington, USA

    Terence W. Barrett

  • Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Herbert A. Pohl

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