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  title info:
    title: Statistical Physics of Non-Thermal Phase Transitions
    sub title: From Foundations to Applications
  name:
    name part: Abaimov, Sergey G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 497 p. 144 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Statistical physics can be used to better understand non-thermal complex systems—phenomena such as stock-market crashes, revolutions in society and in science, fractures in engineered materials and in the Earth’s crust, catastrophes, traffic jams, petroleum clusters, polymerization, self-organized criticality and many others exhibit behaviors resembling those of thermodynamic systems. In particular, many of these systems possess phase transitions identical to critical or spinodal phenomena in statistical physics. The application of the well-developed formalism of statistical physics to non-thermal complex systems may help to predict and prevent such catastrophes as earthquakes, snow-avalanches and landslides, failure of engineering structures, or economical crises. This book addresses the issue step-by-step, from phenomenological analogies between complex systems and statistical physics to more complex aspects, such as correlations, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, susceptibility, the concept of free energy, renormalization group approach and scaling. Fractals and multifractals, the Ising model, percolation, damage phenomena, critical and spinodal phase transitions, crossover effects and finite-size effects are some of the topics covered in Statistical Physics of Non-Thermal Phase Transitions.
  table of contents: Preface -- Fractals -- Stastistical Physics, Ensemble Theory, Free Energy Potential -- The Ising Model -- The Theory of Percolation -- Damage Phenomena -- Correlations, Susceptibility, and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem -- The Renormalization Group -- Scaling, the Finite-Size Effect, Cross-Over Effects.
  note: by Sergey G. Abaimov.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Phase transitions (Statistical physics)
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems
  classification: QC174.7-175.36
  classification: 621
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Series in Synergetics
  identifier: 9783319124698
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12469-8
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    record creation date: 150518
    record change date: 20151103130206.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-12469-8