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Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions - Volume 1: Absorbing Phase Transitions (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions - Volume 1: Absorbing Phase Transitions (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
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"The career structure and funding of the universities [...]
currently strongly d- courages academics and faculties from putting
any investment into teaching - there are no career or ?nancial
rewards in it. This is a great pity, because [...] it is the need
toengage indialogue,and to makethings logicaland clear,that
istheprimary defence against obscurantism and abstraction. " B.
Ward-Perkins, The fall of Rome, Oxford (2005) This is the ?rst
volume of a planned two-volume treatise on non-equilibrium phase
transitions. While such a topic might sound rather special and a-
demic, non-equilibrium critical phenomena occur in much wider
contexts than their equilibrium counterparts, and without having to
?ne-tune th- modynamic variables to their 'critical' values in each
case. As a matter of fact, most systems in Nature are out of
equilibrium. Given that the theme of non-equilibrium phase
transitions of second order is wide enough to amount essentially to
a treatment of almost all theoretical aspects of non-equilibrium
many-body physics, a selection of topics is required to keep such a
project within a manageable length. Therefore, Vol. 1 discusses a
particular kind of non-equilibrium phase transitions, namely those
between an active, ?- tuating state and absorbing states. Volume 2
(to be written by one of us (MH) with M. Pleimling) will be devoted
to ageing phenomena.
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