This volume collects the contributions of a Conference held in June 2005, at the laboratoire Paul Painlev́ e (UMR CNRS 8524) ...
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                Nucleation is the initial step of every first-order phase transition, and most phase transitions encountered both in everyday ...
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                The book starts with a textbook-like expose on nonlinear dynamics, attractors and chaos, both temporal and spatio-temporal, ...
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                This status report features the most recent developments in the field, spanning a wide range of topical areas in the computer ...
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                This volume represents a "status report" emanating from presentations made during the 18th Annual Workshop on Computer ...
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                Symmetry exists in realms from crystals to patterns, in external shapes of living or non-living objects, as well as in the ...
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                This book aims to give an overview of the most recent advances in emulsion sciene. The basic principles, covering aspects ...
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                Entropy and Energy- a Universal Competition" is a students textbook as well as a scientific monograph. The concepts of entropy ...
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                This is a textbook which gradually introduces the student to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of ...
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                Volume 1 discusses in detail the probabilistic description of quantum or classical systems, the Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions, ...
Continue readingIdeals are simple and able to be easily understood, but never exist in reality. In this book a theory based on the second ...
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                This classic text, an often-requested reprint, develops and explains the foundations of noise-induced processes. At its core ...
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                This book describes two main classes of non-equilibrium phase-transitions: (a) static and dynamics of transitions into an ...
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                This text gives a detailed account of various techniques that are used in the study of dynamics of continuous systems, near ...
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                Providing an introduction to the theory of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, this book discusses fundamental properties ...
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                Atmospheric particles are ubiquitous in the atmosphere: they form the seeds for cloud droplets and they form haze layers, ...
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                This monograph develops a unified microscopic basis for phases and phase changes of bulk matter and small systems in terms ...
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                The present volume addresses issues such as: novel general views and concepts which help to advance our understanding of ...
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                Recently, analogies between laboratory physics and gravitational/cosmological phenomena. Especially in view of the tremendous ...
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                Quantum annealing employs quantum fluctuations in frustrated systems or networks to anneal the system down to its ground ...
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