Slow Relaxations and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Condensed Matter: Les Houches Session LXXVII, 1-26 July, 2002

ISBN-13: 9783540401414 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 769 str.

Jean-Louis Barrat; Michail Victorovich Feigelman; Jorge Kurchan

Opis

Intended for graduate students in physics and chemistry, this book touches on granular matter, protein folding, phase separating and evolution kinetics. Taking glasses as a central theme, it presents the problem of slow dynamics from several angles, a ubiquitous feature in condensed matter, mechanics and biological physics. Some of the best established workers in the field present different theoretical and experimental approaches to the subject.

Spis treści

From the Contents: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions.- Mechanical Aging and Non-Linear Rheology of Concentrated Colloidal Suspensions: Experimental Facts and Simple Models.- Structural Relaxation and Rheology of Soft Condensed Matter.- Granular Matter: Some Ideas from Statistical Physics.- Supercooled Liquids, the Glass Transition, and Computer Simulations.- Glasses, Replicas and all that.- Dynamics of Glassy Systems.- Equilibrium States and Dynamics of Equilibration: General Issues and Open Questions.- Experimental Analysis of Aging.- Fluctuation Dissipation Relation in a Non-Stationary System: Experimental Investigation in a Spin Glass.- Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and Aging in the Electron Glass.- Proteins: Structural, Thermodynamic and Kinetic Aspects.- Self-Organized Criticality in Granular Superconductors.- Hiking Through Glassy Phases: Physics Beyond Aging. Kinetically Constrained Models and Driven Systems with Slow Dynamics.- Dynamic Transitions in Thermal and Athermal Systems.