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Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
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Caesar, Bonn, Germany
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Qi Tang
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SMS, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 1-38
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 39-65
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 67-85
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 87-116
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 117-159
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 161-219
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 221-250
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 251-281
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 283-325
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- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Qi Tang
Pages 327-374
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Back Matter
Pages 375-384
About this book
The theory of complex Ginzburg-Landau type phase transition and its applica tions to superconductivity and superfluidity has been a topic of great interest to theoretical physicists and has been continuously and persistently studied since the 1950s. Today, there is an abundance of mathematical results spread over numer ous scientific journals. However, before 1992, most of the studies concentrated on formal asymptotics or linear analysis. Only isolated results by Berger, Jaffe and Taubes and some of their colleagues touched the nonlinear aspects in great detail. In 1991, a physics seminar given by Ed Copeland at Sussex University inspired Q. Tang, the co-author of this monograph, to study the subject. Independently in Munich, K.-H. Hoffmann and his collaborators Z. Chen and J. Liang started to work on the topic at the same time. Soon it became clear that at that time, groups of mathematicians at Oxford and Virginia Tech had already studied the subject for a couple of years. They inspired experts in interface phase transition problems and their combined effort established a rigorous mathematical framework for the Ginzburg-Landau system. At the beginning Q. Tang collaborated with C.M. Elliott and H. Matano.
Authors and Affiliations
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Caesar, Bonn, Germany
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
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SMS, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Qi Tang
