Description
Nonequilibrium Physics at Short Time Scales, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Formation of Correlations
Coordinator: Morawetz Klaus
Language: EnglishPublication date: 11-2010
501 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2004
501 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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This introductory level text addresses the broad range of nonequilibrium phenomena observed at short time scales. It focuses on the important questions of correlations and memory effects in dense interacting systems. Experiments on very short time scales are characterized, in particular, by strong correlations far from equilibrium, by nonlinear dynamics, and by the related phenomena of turbulence and chaos. The impressive successes of experiments using pulsed lasers to study the properties of matter and of the new methods of analysis of the early phases of heavy ion reactions have necessitated a review of the available many-body theoretical methods. The aim of this book is thus to provide an introduction to the experimental and theoretical methods that help us to understand the behaviour of such systems when disturbed on very short time scales.
The topic of correlations at short time scales is important in very many branches of physics
Important theoretical and experimental approaches are presented here in the first book attempting to give a full picture of the range of phenomena involved
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras