A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media From Physics to Biology and Social Sciences /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Parisi, Jürgen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Müller, Stefan C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zimmermann, Walter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 1998.
• Σειρά: Lecture Notes in Physics, 503
• Θέματα: Condensed matter.; Physical measurements.; Measurement .; Biochemistry.; Immunology.; Physical chemistry.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Biochemistry, general.; Physical Chemistry.

Concepts of nonlinear physics are applied to an increasing number of research disciplines. With this volume, the editors offer a selection of articles on nonlinear topics in progress, ranging from physics and chemistry to biology and some applications of social science. The book covers quantum optic...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Quantum chaos in Rydberg atoms
• Crystallization of electrons and holes
• Natural patterns in nonequilibrium systems
• Linear aspects of the Faraday instability
• On curved cellular flames
• Nonlinear flow behavior and shear-induced structure of fluids
• Experimental study of horizontally shaken granular matter - The swelling effect
• On relaxational granular compaction
• From microscopic to macroscopic traffic models
• The modelling concept of sociodynamics
• The morphogenesis of dictyostelium discoideum - Pattern formation in a biological excitable system
• Path optimization in chemical and biological systems on the basis of excitation waves
• BSE viewed dynamically: A possible early cure based on passive immunization against PrPSc
• Molecular semiotic structures in the cellular immune system: Key to dynamics and spatial patterning?
• Molecular evolutionary dynamics
• The retinal spreading depression: A model for nonlinear behavior of the brain
• An analytically solvable model of collective excitation patterns in cortical tissue
• Interaction of meandering spiral waves in active media
• Spatiotemporal patterns in a passivating electrochemical system
• Instabilities of pollutant concentrations in the troposphere due to chemical reactions
• Hydrodynamic singularities
• Disordered structures analyzed by the theory of Markov processes
• Transition to turbulence in shear flows
• Deformation of charge density waves in quasi-one-dimensional semiconductors visualized by scanning electron microscopy
• Probing nonlinear carrier transport in semi- and superconductors via low-temperature scanning laser microscopy
• Nonlinear spatio-temporal emission dynamics of broad area laser diodes
• Gravitational slowing down of clocks implies proportional size increase.