Statistical Physics of Non-Thermal Phase Transitions From Foundations to Applications /

• Main Author: Abaimov, Sergey G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Complexity, Computational.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Complexity.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.

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 c...

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.