Overview
- Covers the most interesting and active aspects of localized states in physics
- Contains a good balance of theoretical and experimental material
- Displays common features of localization in diverse systems
- Reviews a field of relevance in many technical applications
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Solitons, self-confined light and optical turbulence
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Front Matter
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Solitons, self-cofined light and optical turbulence
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Localized structures in pattern forming systems
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Front Matter
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Localized structures for optical applications
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Excitability and localized states
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Back Matter
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About this book
Systems driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium can create dissipative structures through the spontaneous breaking of symmetries. A particularly fascinating feature of these pattern-forming systems is their tendency to produce spatially confined states. These localized wave packets can exist as propagating entities through space and/or time.
Various examples of such systems will be dealt with in this book, including localized states in fluids, chemical reactions on surfaces, neural networks, optical systems, granular systems, population models, and Bose-Einstein condensates.
This book should appeal to all physicists, mathematicians and electrical engineers interested in localization in far-from-equilibrium systems. The authors - all recognized experts in their fields - strive to achieve a balance between theoretical and experimental considerations thereby giving an overview of fascinating physical principles, their manifestations in diverse systems, and the novel technical applications on the horizon.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Localized States in Physics: Solitons and Patterns
Editors: Orazio Descalzi, Marcel Clerc, Stefania Residori, Gaetano Assanto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16549-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-16548-1Published: 09 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42272-0Published: 11 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-16549-8Published: 06 January 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 286
Topics: Complex Systems, Quantum Optics, Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems