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Spontaneous Formation of Space-Time Structures and Criticality

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Editors:
  1. T. Riste

    1. Institutt for Energiteknikk, Kjeller, Norway

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  2. D. Sherrington

    1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 349)

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Scaling and Universality in Statistical Physics

    • H. Thomas
    Pages 1-24

  3. Self-Organized Criticality and the Perception of Large Events

    • P. Bak
    Pages 25-31

  4. Dynamical Aspects of Sandpile Cellular Automata

    • Kim Christensen
    Pages 33-36

  5. Steady State Selection in Driven Diffusive Systems

    • Joachim Krug
    Pages 37-40

  6. Earthquakes and Faulting: Self-Organized Critical Phenomena with a Characteristic Dimension

    • C. H. Scholz
    Pages 41-56

  7. Self-Organized Criticality in Plate Tectonics

    • Didier Sornette
    Pages 57-106

  8. Experiments and Simulations Modeling Earthquakes

    • Hans Jacob S. Feder, Jens Feder
    Pages 107-111

  9. Fractal Time-Series and Fractional Brownian Motion

    • Jens Feder
    Pages 113-135

  10. 1/f Noise, Lattice Gases, and Diffusion

    • Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
    Pages 137-140

  11. Fluctuations in a Lévy Flight Gas

    • H. C. Fogedby, T. Bohr, H. J. Jensen
    Pages 141-144

  12. Spatio — Temporal Correlations in Semiconductors

    • J. Peinke, W. Clauss, R. P. Huebener, A. Kittel, J. Parisi, U. Rau et al.
    Pages 145-176

  13. New Travelling and Stationary Chemical Patterns in Open Spatial Reactors

    • P. De Kepper, E. Dulos
    Pages 177-202

  14. Structure of Layered Systems Under Reactions

    • I. M. Sokolov, A. Blumen
    Pages 203-206

  15. Localized and “Blinking” Traveling Wave Patterns in a Convective Binary Mixture

    • V. Steinberg, E. Kaplan
    Pages 207-244

  16. Localized Solutions of Generalized Swift-Hohenberg Equation

    • S. Gluzman
    Pages 245-248

  17. Experiments on the Couette-Taylor flow with an Axial Flow

    • Avraham Tsameret, Victor Steinberg
    Pages 249-254

  18. Convection in Microemulsions

    • M. A. López-Quintela, A. Fernández-Nóvoa, W. Korneta†
    Pages 255-258

  19. Routes to Chaos in a Dissipative Chain of Strongly Coupled, Driven Spins

    • A. Jaroszewicz, A. Sukiennicki
    Pages 259-262

  20. Localized Structures and Solitary Waves Excited by Interfacial Stresses

    • M. G. Velarde, A. N. Garazo, C. I. Christov
    Pages 263-272
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This volume contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced study Institute held at Geilo, Norway between 2 - 12 april 1991. This institute was the eleventh in a series held biannually at Geilo on the subject of phase transitions. It was intended to capture the latest ideas on selforgan­ ized patterns and criticality. The Institute brought together many lecturers, students and active re­ searchers in the field from a wide range of NATO and non-NATO countries. The main financial support came from the NATO scientific Affairs Divi­ sion, but additional support was obtained from the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF) and Institutt for energi­ teknikk. The organizers would like to thank all these contributors for their help in promoting an exciting and rewarding meeting, and in doing so are confident that they echo the appreciation of all the parti­ cipants. In cooperative, equilibrium systems, physical states are described by spatio-temporal correlation functions. The intimate connection between space and time correlations is especially apparent at the critical point, the second order phase transition, where the spatial range and the decay time of the correlation function both become infinite. The salient features of critical phenomena and the history of the devel­ opment of this field of science are treated in the first chapter of this book.

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`Exceptional scientific importance and substantial intellectual achievements make this a volume of great value. I strongly recommend this book.'
Pure and Applied Geophysics, 151 (1998)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institutt for Energiteknikk, Kjeller, Norway

    T. Riste

  • Institute of Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK

    D. Sherrington

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