عنوان

Disorder and Nonlinearity :

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Disorder and Nonlinearity :

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Proceedings of the Workshop J.R. Oppenheimer Study Center Los Alamos, New Mexico, 4-6 May, 1988

edited by Alan R. Bishop, David K. Campbell, Stephanos Pnevmatikos.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

1989

(VIII, 143 pages 66 illustrations)

Springer proceedings in physics, 39.

I Localization and Nonlinearity --; Nonlinearity and Localization in One-Dimensional Random Media --; Wave Transmission in a One-Dimensional Nonlinear Lattice: Multistability and Noise --; A New Look at Hopping, Trapping and Anderson Localisation --; Nonlinearity and Randomness in Quantum Transport --; Quasiparticle Motion on a Chain with Alternating Site Energies and Intersite Interactions --; Quasiperiodic Physics in One Dimension --; Density of States in Disordered Two-Dimensional Electron Systems --; II Solitons and Disorder --; Soliton Scattering by Impurities. An Analytical Approach to Interference Effects --; Space Stochastic Perturbations of a Sine-Gordon Soliton --; Chaotic Dynamics of Solitons and Breathers --; Proton Solitons in Hydrogen-Bonded Networks --; III Scattering and Localization --; The Statistics of Random Backscatter: A Comparison of Theory with Computer Simulations --; Coherent Backscattering and Anderson Localization of Light --; Weak Localization, Correlations and Fluctuations in Light Scattering from a Disordered Medium --; Nonresonant Effects in CO2 Amplifier of Ultrashort Laser Pulses --; IV Postscript --; Disorder and Nonlinearity --; Index of Contributors.

This is the first book to identify fundamental physical problems in the increasingly recognized overlap between nonlinearity and disorder. Although progress in the two fields has occurred independently and at a rapid pace in the past thirty years (solitons, polarons, deterministic chaos, and chaotic dynamics in "nonlinearity"; Anderson localization, effects of impurities, random spatial structures, and stochastic applied fields in "disorder"), disorder and nonlinearity often coexist and their separate effects can reinforce, complement or frustrate each other. This books shows how the expertise of researchers in these presently disjoint disciplines can be combined to confront common problems, for example, localization phenomena in solids.

Physics.

Thermodynamics.

edited by Alan R. Bishop, David K. Campbell, Stephanos Pnevmatikos.

A R Bishop

David K Campbell

Stephanos Pnevmatikos

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