Ageing and the Glass Transition

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Henkel, Malte (Editor), Pleimling, Michel (Editor), Sanctuary, Roland (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 716
• Subjects: Physics.; Thermodynamics.; Solid state physics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Solid State Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.

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 postgradu...

Table of Contents:

• Ageing, Rejuvenation and Memory: The Example of Spin-Glasses
• About the Nature of the Structural Glass Transition: An Experimental Approach
• Glassy Behaviours in A-Thermal Systems, the Case of Granular Media: A Tentative Review
• to Simulation Techniques
• From Urn Models to Zero-Range Processes: Statics and Dynamics
• Field-Theory Approaches to Nonequilibrium Dynamics.