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Stochastic Processes in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
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Stochastic Processes in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 557
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The theory of stochastic processes originally grew out of efforts
to describe Brownian motion quantitatively. Today it provides a
huge arsenal of methods suitable for analyzing the influence of
noise on a wide range of systems. The credit for acquiring all the
deep insights and powerful methods is due ma- ly to a handful of
physicists and mathematicians: Einstein, Smoluchowski, Langevin,
Wiener, Stratonovich, etc. Hence it is no surprise that until -
cently the bulk of basic and applied stochastic research was
devoted to purely mathematical and physical questions. However, in
the last decade we have witnessed an enormous growth of results
achieved in other sciences - especially chemistry and biology -
based on applying methods of stochastic processes. One reason for
this stochastics boom may be that the realization that noise plays
a constructive rather than the expected deteriorating role has
spread to communities beyond physics. Besides their aesthetic
appeal these noise-induced, noise-supported or noise-enhanced
effects sometimes offer an explanation for so far open pr- lems
(information transmission in the nervous system and information p-
cessing in the brain, processes at the cell level, enzymatic
reactions, etc.). They may also pave the way to novel technological
applications (noise-- hanced reaction rates, noise-induced
transport and separation on the na- scale, etc.). Key words to be
mentioned in this context are stochastic r- onance, Brownian motors
or ratchets, and noise-supported phenomena in excitable systems.
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