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Systems with competing energy scales are widespread and exhibit rich and subtle behaviour, although their systematic study is a relatively recent activity. This text presents lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject, particularly with regard to phase transitions and dynamics, at an advanced tutorial level.
Both general and specific aspects are considered, with competitions having several origins; differences in intrinsic interactions, interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic effects, such as geometry and disorder; irreversibility and non-equilibration. Among the specific physical application areas are supercooled liquids and glasses, high-temperature superconductors, flux or vortex pinning and motion, charge density waves, domain growth and coarsening, and electron solidification.
Both general and specific aspects are considered, with competitions having several origins; differences in intrinsic interactions, interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic effects, such as geometry and disorder; irreversibility and non-equilibration. Among the specific physical application areas are supercooled liquids and glasses, high-temperature superconductors, flux or vortex pinning and motion, charge density waves, domain growth and coarsening, and electron solidification.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales
Editors: Tormod Riste, David Sherrington
Series Title: Nato Science Series C:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1908-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2504-8Published: 30 September 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4843-9Published: 31 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1908-5Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1389-2185
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 452
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials