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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Understanding cooperative phenomena far from equilibrium is one of fascinating challenges of present-day many-body physics. Glassy behaviour and the physical ageing process of such materials are paradigmatic examples. The present volume, primarily intended as introduction and reference for postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers from related fields, collects six extensive lectures addressing selected experimental and theoretical issues in the field of glassy systems.
Lecture 1 gives an introduction and overview of the time-dependent behaviour of magnetic spin glasses. Lecture 2 is devoted to an in-depth discussion on the nature of the thermal glass-transition in structural glasses. Lecture 3 examines the glassy behaviour of granular systems. Lecture 4 gives a thorough introduction to the techniques and applications of Monte-Carlo simulations and the analysis of the resulting data through scaling methods. Lecture 5 introduces the zero-range-process concept as simple but subtle model to describe a range of static and dynamic properties of glassy systems. Lecture 6 shows how familiar RG methods for equilibrium systems can be extended to systems far from equilibrium.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ageing and the Glass Transition
Editors: Malte Henkel, Michel Pleimling, Roland Sanctuary
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69684-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-69683-4Published: 24 April 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08912-1Published: 18 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69684-1Published: 11 April 2007
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 349
Topics: Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems, Complex Systems, Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Thermodynamics