Dissipative Phenomena in Condensed Matter: Some Applications

By Sushanta Dattagupta

This reference and text treats the broadly applicable area of nonequilibrium statistical physics and concentrates the modelling and characterisation of dissipative phenomena. A variety of examples from diverse disciplines, such as condensed matter physics, materials science, metallurgy, chemical physics, are discussed. Dattagupta employs a broad framework of stochastic processes and master equation techniques to obtain models for a range of experimentally relevant phenomena such as classical and quantum Brownian motion, spin dynamics, kinetics of phase ordering, relaxation in glasses, and dissipative tunnelling. This book will serve as a graduate/research level textbook since it offers considerable utility to experimentalists, computational physicists and theorists.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540203818
• ISBN13: 9783540203810
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"