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Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Tormod Riste

    1. Institutt for energiteknikk, Kjeller, Norway

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  2. David Sherrington

    1. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 415)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Low Temperature Phases, Ordering and Dynamics in Random Media

    • Daniel S. Fisher
    Pages 1-25

  3. Statics and Dynamics of the Flux-Line Lattice in High-Tc Superconductors

    • Ernst Helmut Brandt
    Pages 27-53

  4. Magnetic Flux Line Lattices in the Cuprate Superconductors

    • P. L. Gammel, D. J. Bishop
    Pages 55-69

  5. Theory and Experiment of Flux Pinning and Flux Creep in High T c Superconductors

    • P. H. Kes
    Pages 71-94

  6. Vortex Line Fluctuations in Superconductors from Elementary Quantum Mechanics

    • David R. Nelson
    Pages 95-117

  7. Anisotropy and Strong Pinning in YBa2Cu3O7 with Y2BaCuO5 Inclusions

    • M. G. Karkut, L. K. Heill, M. Slaski, L. T. Sagdahl, K. Fossheim
    Pages 119-122

  8. Interstitial and Vacancy Proliferation in Flux Line Lattices

    • Erwin Frey, David R. Nelson, Daniel S. Fisher
    Pages 123-127

  9. Simulations of Relaxation, Pinning, and Melting in Flux Lattices

    • Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
    Pages 129-185

  10. I-V Characteristics of High Temperature Superconductors with Correlated Defects

    • Mats Wallin, S. M. Girvin
    Pages 187-190

  11. Relaxation Near Glass Transition Singularities

    • W. Götze
    Pages 191-232

  12. Neutron Scattering at the Glass Transition

    • U. Buchenau
    Pages 233-257

  13. Susceptibility Studies of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses

    • Sidney R. Nagel
    Pages 259-283

  14. Hierarchical Melting of One-Dimensional Incommensurate Structures

    • R. Schilling
    Pages 285-316

  15. Charge Density Waves, Phase Slips, and Instabilities

    • S. N. Coppersmith
    Pages 317-334

  16. Universality in Commensurate-Incommensurate Phase Transitions

    • B. Hu, J. Shi, B. Lin
    Pages 335-338

  17. Glassy Behavior of the Charge/Spin Density Wave Ground State

    • K. Biljaković
    Pages 339-358

  18. The Critical Behavior of 1-d Charge Density Waves

    • Zeev Olami
    Pages 359-365

  19. Electron Solidification in Two Dimensions

    • R. L. Willett
    Pages 367-399

  20. Two—Dimensional Wigner Solid Versus Incompressible Quantum Liquid

    • Guenther Meissner
    Pages 401-404
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About this book

Systems with competing energy scales are widespread and exhibit rich and subtle behaviour, although their systematic study is a relatively recent activity. This text presents lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject, particularly with regard to phase transitions and dynamics, at an advanced tutorial level.
Both general and specific aspects are considered, with competitions having several origins; differences in intrinsic interactions, interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic effects, such as geometry and disorder; irreversibility and non-equilibration. Among the specific physical application areas are supercooled liquids and glasses, high-temperature superconductors, flux or vortex pinning and motion, charge density waves, domain growth and coarsening, and electron solidification.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institutt for energiteknikk, Kjeller, Norway

    Tormod Riste

  • Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK

    David Sherrington

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales

  • Editors: Tormod Riste, David Sherrington

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1908-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2504-8Published: 30 September 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4843-9Published: 31 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1908-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 452

  • Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

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