Complex Behaviour of Glassy Systems Proceedings of the XIV Sitges Conference Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 10-14 June 1996 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rubi, Miguel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Perez-Vicente, Conrado (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 492
• Subjects: Condensed matter.; Physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Complex Systems.
• Physical Description: IX, 470 p. 30 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540691235
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/BFb0104813

For the first time this subject, including many systems of interest in Condensed Matter Physics, is treated in an unified way. Complexity emerges as one of the main ingredients dictating the collective behaviour of many systems. Glassy systems constitute one of the most interesting fields of Condensed Matter Physics for which also a considerable amount of experimental data and industial applications have been collected during the last twenty years. Systems exhibiting glassy behaviour are for example: real glasses, spin glasses, vortex flasses in superconductors, protein folding, etc. In this book the reader can see how the present theoretical understanding of these subjects is based on similar techniques and approaches hopefully allowing to develop a unifying structure that underlies the physical mechanism.