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Complex Behaviour of Glassy Systems

Proceedings of the XIV Sitges Conference Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 10–14 June 1996

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 492)

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Table of contents (34 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Computer simulation of models for the structural glass transition

    • K. Binder, J. Baschnagel, W. Kob, K. Okun, W. Paul, K. Vollmayr et al.
    Pages 22-43
  3. Microscopic dynamics in glasses in relation to that shown by other complex systems

    • F J Bermejo, H E Fischer, M A Ramos, A de Andrés, J Dawidowski, R Fayos
    Pages 44-61
  4. Microscopic dynamics of A1C60 compounds

    • H. Schober, B. Renker, R. Heid, F. Gompf, A. Tölle
    Pages 62-81
  5. An ideal glass transition in supercooled water?

    • F. Sciortino, S. H. Chen, P. Gallo, P. Tartaglia
    Pages 90-99
  6. Glass transition in the hard sphere system

    • Chandan Dasgupta, Oriol T. Valls
    Pages 100-110
  7. Slow dynamics of glassy systems

    • Giorgio Parisi
    Pages 111-121
  8. Complexity as the driving force for glassy transitions

    • Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
    Pages 139-149
  9. A solvable model of a glass

    • Reimer Kühn
    Pages 150-161
  10. On the long times, large length scale behaviour of disordered systems

    • Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Mézard
    Pages 162-175
  11. Hexatic glass

    • Eugene M. Chudnovsky
    Pages 176-183
  12. Slow dynamics and aging in spin glasses

    • Eric Vincent, Jacques Hammann, Miguel Ocio, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Leticia F. Cugliandolo
    Pages 184-219
  13. Ultrametric structure of finite dimensional spin glasses

    • Angelo Cacciuto, Enzo Marinari, Giorgio Parisi
    Pages 220-225
  14. Entropy crisis in a short range spin glass

    • Silvio Franz
    Pages 226-231
  15. Chiral and spin order in XY spin glass

    • Muriel Ney-Nifle
    Pages 232-240
  16. A metal-insulator transition as a quantum glass problem

    • T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Belitzi
    Pages 241-255
  17. Quantum spin glasses

    • Heiko Rieger, A. Peter Young
    Pages 256-265

About this book

For the first time this subject, including many systems of interest in Condensed Matter Physics, is treated in an unified way. Complexity emerges as one of the main ingredients dictating the collective behaviour of many systems. Glassy systems constitute one of the most interesting fields of Condensed Matter Physics for which also a considerable amount of experimental data and industial applications have been collected during the last twenty years. Systems exhibiting glassy behaviour are for example: real glasses, spin glasses, vortex flasses in superconductors, protein folding, etc. In this book the reader can see how the present theoretical understanding of these subjects is based on similar techniques and approaches hopefully allowing to develop a unifying structure that underlies the physical mechanism.

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