Noise and Fluctuations
Noise and Fluctuations

Author: D. K. C. MacDonald

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0486450295

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An understanding of fluctuations and their role is both useful and fundamental to the study of physics. This concise study of random processes offers graduate students and research physicists a survey that encompasses both the relationship of Brownian Movement with statistical mechanics and the problem of irreversible processes. It outlines the basics of the physics involved, without the strictures of mathematical rigor. The three-part treatment starts with a general survey of Brownian Movement, including electrical Brownian Movement and "shot-noise," Part two explores correlation, frequency spectrum, and distribution function, with particular focus on application to Brownian Movement. The final section examines noise in electric currents, including noise in vacuum tubes and a random rectangular current. Frequent footnotes amplify the text, along with an extensive selection of Appendixes.

Electronic Noise and Fluctuations in Solids
Electronic Noise and Fluctuations in Solids

Author: Sh. Kogan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780521070195

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This book looks at the physics of electronic fluctuations (noise) in solids. The author emphasizes many fundamental experiments that have become classics: physical mechanisms of fluctuations, and the nature and magnitude of noise. He also includes the most comprehensive and complete review of flicker (1/f) noise in the literature. It will be useful to graduate students and researchers in physics and electronic engineering, and especially those carrying out research in the fields of noise phenomena and highly sensitive electronic devices--detectors, electronic devices for low-noise amplifiers, and quantum magnetometers (SQUIDS).

Noise Theory and Application to Physics
Noise Theory and Application to Physics

Author: Philippe Réfrégier

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-04-27

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780387201542

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This is a unique approach to noise theory and its application to physical measurements that will find its place among the graduate course books. In a very systematic way, the foundations are laid and applied in a way that the book will also be useful to those not focusing on optics. Exercises and solutions help students to deepen their knowledge.

Noise and Fluctuations Control in Electronic Devices
Noise and Fluctuations Control in Electronic Devices

Author: Alexander A. Balandin

Publisher: Amer Scientific Pub

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781588830050

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Noise and Fluctuations Control in Electronic Devices is the first single reference source to bring together the latest aspects of noise research for a wide range of multidisciplinary audiences. The goal of this book is to give an update of state-of-the-art in this interdisciplinary field, while focusing on new trends in electronic device noise research. Such new trends include investigation of noise in electronic devices based on novel materials, effects of the downscaling on the device noise performance, fluctuations and noise control in nanodevices, effective methods of noise control and suppression, etc. In addition, the book presents a historic overview of the development of the kinetic theory of fluctuation, essential for understanding of the present state-of-the art. This book contains 18 state-of-the-art review chapters written by 33 internationally renowned experts from 15 countries. This book has about 1,500 bibliographical citations and hundreds of illustrations, figures, tables and equations. This book is a definite reference source for students, scientists, engineers, and specialists both in academia and industry working in such different fields as electronic and optoelectronic devices, electrical and electronic engineering, solid-state physics, nanotechnology, wireless communication, telecommunication, and semiconductor device technology.

Noise Sustained Patterns
Noise Sustained Patterns

Author: Markus Loecher

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9810246765

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This book investigates the impact of noise upon the emergence and sustenance of patterns. ?Patterns? loosely refers to coherent spatial structures, including fronts, as well as temporal patterns. The crucial role of nonlinearities is highlighted and expanded upon in the context of dynamical system frameworks. The author's familiarity with chaos theory, statistical physics and nonlinear science is reflected in the highly interdisciplinary character of the text. Model equations and experiments taken from fluid dynamics, semiconductor devices, biophysics and statistical mechanics complement theoretical concepts.It should be of great value to researchers and graduate students who desire a quick introduction to the subject. Excursions into emerging fields such as traffic flow simulations and game theory serve to broaden the scope and to encourage the exploration of sundry topics.

Noise in Physical Systems
Noise in Physical Systems

Author: D. Wolf

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3642876404

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Noise in physical systems - as a consequence of the corpuscular nature of matter - conveys information about microscopic mechanisms determining the macroscopic behavior of the system. Besides being a source of information, noise also represents a source of annoying disturbances which affect information transMission along a physical system. Therefore, noise analysis can promote our insight into the behavior of a physical system, as well as our knowledge of the natural constraints imposed upon physical-information transmission channels and devices. In recent years the continuous scientific and technical interest in noise problems has led to a remarkable progress in the understanding of noise phenomena. This progress is reflected by the rich material presented at the Fifth International Conference on Noise in Physical Systems. The conference papers originally published in these proceedings cover the various aspects of today's noise research in the fields of solid-state devices, l/f-noise, magnetic and superconducting materials, measuring methods, and theory of fluctuations. Each session of the conference was introduced by one or two invited review lectures which are included in these proceedings in full length. The 12 invited papers and more than 40 contributed papers on specific topics (only three of them have been omitted from the proceedings since they will be published elsewhere) provide a comprehensive survey of the current state-of-the-art and recent advances of noise analysis.

Statistical Mechanics for Athermal Fluctuation
Statistical Mechanics for Athermal Fluctuation

Author: Kiyoshi Kanazawa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 981106332X

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The author investigates athermal fluctuation from the viewpoints of statistical mechanics in this thesis. Stochastic methods are theoretically very powerful in describing fluctuation of thermodynamic quantities in small systems on the level of a single trajectory and have been recently developed on the basis of stochastic thermodynamics. This thesis proposes, for the first time, a systematic framework to describe athermal fluctuation, developing stochastic thermodynamics for non-Gaussian processes, while thermal fluctuations are mainly addressed from the viewpoint of Gaussian stochastic processes in most of the conventional studies. First, the book provides an elementary introduction to the stochastic processes and stochastic thermodynamics. The author derives a Langevin-like equation with non-Gaussian noise as a minimal stochastic model for athermal systems, and its analytical solution by developing systematic expansions is shown as the main result. Furthermore, the a uthor shows a thermodynamic framework for such non-Gaussian fluctuations, and studies some thermodynamics phenomena, i.e. heat conduction and energy pumping, which shows distinct characteristics from conventional thermodynamics. The theory introduced in the book would be a systematic foundation to describe dynamics of athermal fluctuation quantitatively and to analyze their thermodynamic properties on the basis of stochastic methods.

Noise in Spatially Extended Systems
Noise in Spatially Extended Systems

Author: Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1461215366

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Intended for graduates and researchers in physics, chemistry, biology, and applied mathematics, this book provides an up-to-date introduction to current research in fluctuations in spatially extended systems. It covers the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and gives an overview of the effects of external noise on dynamical systems with spatial degrees of freedom. Starting with a general introduction to noise-induced phenomena in dynamical systems, the text moves on to an extensive discussion of analytical and numerical tools needed to gain information from stochastic partial differential equations. It then turns to particular problems described by stochastic PDEs, covering a wide part of the rich phenomenology of spatially extended systems, such as nonequilibrium phase transitions, domain growth, pattern formation, and front propagation. The only prerequisite is a minimal background knowledge of the Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations.

Noise Research in Semiconductor Physics
Noise Research in Semiconductor Physics

Author: N Lukyanchikova

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1997-03-19

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9789056990060

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This book demonstrates the role and abilities of fluctuation in semiconductor physics, and shows what kinds of physical information are involved in the noise characteristics of semiconductor materials and devices, how this information may be decoded and which advantages are inherent to the noise methods. The text provides a comprehensive account of current results, addressing problems which have not previously been covered in Western literature, including the excess noise of tunnel-recombination currents and photocurrents in diodes, fluctuation phenomena in a real photoconductor with different recombination centers, and methods of noise spectroscopy of levels in a wide range of materials and devices.

Noise-Induced Transitions
Noise-Induced Transitions

Author: W. Horsthemke

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-09-12

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 3540368523

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The study of phase transitions is among the most fascinating fields in physics. Originally limited to transition phenomena in equilibrium systems, this field has outgrown its classical confines during the last two decades. The behavior of far from equilibrium systems has received more and more attention and has been an extremely active and productive subject of research for physicists, chemists and biologists. Their studies have brought about a more unified vision of the laws which govern self-organization processes of physico-chemical and biological sys tems. A major achievement has been the extension of the notion of phase transi tion to instabilities which occur only in open nonlinear systems. The notion of phase transition has been proven fruitful in apphcation to nonequilibrium ins- bihties known for about eight decades, like certain hydrodynamic instabilities, as well as in the case of the more recently discovered instabilities in quantum optical systems such as the laser, in chemical systems such as the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction and in biological systems. Even outside the realm of natural sciences, this notion is now used in economics and sociology. In this monograph we show that the notion of phase transition can be extend ed even further. It apphes also to a new class of transition phenomena which occur only in nonequilibrium systems subjected to a randomly fluctuating en vironment.