This Issue Consists of Papers Related to the Program "new Directions in Statistical Mechanics"
Author: Joel Louis Lebowitz
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 386
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New Directions in Statistical Physics
Author: Luc T. Wille
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 3662089688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a unique insight into the latest breakthroughs in a consistent manner, at a level accessible to undergraduates, yet with enough attention to the theory and computation to satisfy the professional researcher Statistical physics addresses the study and understanding of systems with many degrees of freedom. As such it has a rich and varied history, with applications to thermodynamics, magnetic phase transitions, and order/disorder transformations, to name just a few. However, the tools of statistical physics can be profitably used to investigate any system with a large number of components. Thus, recent years have seen these methods applied in many unexpected directions, three of which are the main focus of this volume. These applications have been remarkably successful and have enriched the financial, biological, and engineering literature. Although reported in the physics literature, the results tend to be scattered and the underlying unity of the field overlooked.
Mathematical Aspects of Nonequilibrium Physics
Author: Joel L. Lebowitz
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrent Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling and Design of Structural Systems
Author: Alphose Zingoni
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2022-09-02
Total Pages: 4438
ISBN-13: 1000824365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrent Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling and Design of Structural Systems comprises 330 papers that were presented at the Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2022, Cape Town, South Africa, 5-7 September 2022). The topics featured may be clustered into six broad categories that span the themes of mechanics, modelling and engineering design: (i) mechanics of materials (elasticity, plasticity, porous media, fracture, fatigue, damage, delamination, viscosity, creep, shrinkage, etc); (ii) mechanics of structures (dynamics, vibration, seismic response, soil-structure interaction, fluid-structure interaction, response to blast and impact, response to fire, structural stability, buckling, collapse behaviour); (iii) numerical modelling and experimental testing (numerical methods, simulation techniques, multi-scale modelling, computational modelling, laboratory testing, field testing, experimental measurements); (iv) design in traditional engineering materials (steel, concrete, steel-concrete composite, aluminium, masonry, timber); (v) innovative concepts, sustainable engineering and special structures (nanostructures, adaptive structures, smart structures, composite structures, glass structures, bio-inspired structures, shells, membranes, space structures, lightweight structures, etc); (vi) the engineering process and life-cycle considerations (conceptualisation, planning, analysis, design, optimization, construction, assembly, manufacture, maintenance, monitoring, assessment, repair, strengthening, retrofitting, decommissioning). Two versions of the papers are available: full papers of length 6 pages are included in the e-book, while short papers of length 2 pages, intended to be concise but self-contained summaries of the full papers, are in the printed book. This work will be of interest to civil, structural, mechanical, marine and aerospace engineers, as well as planners and architects.
Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues, and New Directions
Author: Edoardo M. Airoldi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-04-12
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 3540731334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues, and New Directions held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in June 2006 as associated event of the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2006. It covers probabilistic methods for network analysis, paying special attention to model design and computational issues of learning and inference.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 500
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 870
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Directions in Atomic Physics
Author: C.T. Whelan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1461547210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last few years have seen some remarkable advances in the understanding of atomic phenomena. It is now possible to isolate atomic systems in traps, measure in coincidence the fragments of collision processes, routinely produce, and study multicharged ions. One can look at bulk matter in such a way that the fundamental atomic character is clearly evident and work has begun to tease out the properties of anti matter. The papers in this book reflect many aspects of modem Atomic Physics. They correspond to the invited talks at a conference dedicated to the study of "New Directions in Atomic Physics," which took place in Magdalene College, Cambridge in July of 1998. The meeting was designed as a way of taking stock of what has been achieved and, it was hoped, as a means of stimulating new research in new areas, along new lines. Consequently, an effort was made to touch on as many directions as we could in the four days of the meeting. We included some talks which overviewed whole subfields, as well as quite a large number of research contributions. There is a unity to Physics and we tried to avoid any artificial division between theory and experiment. We had roughly the same number of talks from those who are primarily concerned with making measurements, and from those who spend their lives trying to develop the theory to describe the experiments.
Collected Papers Vol.1: Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics
Author: James Glimm
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780817632717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Critical point dominance in quantum field models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 q>,' quantum field model in the single-phase regions: Differentiability of the mass and bounds on critical exponents. . . . 341 Remark on the existence of q>:. . . • . . . . • . . . . • . . . . . . . . • . • . . . . . . . . . . • . 345 On the approach to the critical point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 Critical exponents and elementary particles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 V Particle Structure Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 The entropy principle for vertex functions in quantum field models. . . . . 372 Three-particle structure of q>4 interactions and the scaling limit . . . . . . . . . 397 Two and three body equations in quantum field models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 Particles and scaling for lattice fields and Ising models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 The resummation of one particle lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 VI Bounds on Coupling Constants Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Absolute bounds on vertices and couplings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480 The coupling constant in a q>4 field theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 VII Confinement and Instantons Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 Instantons in a U(I) lattice gauge theory: A coulomb dipole gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498 Charges, vortices and confinement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 ix VIII Reflection Positivity Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 A note on reflection positivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 x Introduction This volume contains a selection of expository articles on quantum field theory and statistical mechanics by James Glimm and Arthur Jaffe. They include a solution of the original interacting quantum field equations and a description of the physics which these equations contain. Quantum fields were proposed in the late 1920s as the natural framework which combines quantum theory with relativ ity. They have survived ever since.
New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Author: Thomas Tymoczko
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998-02
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780691034980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe traditional debate among philosophers of mathematics is whether there is an external mathematical reality, something out there to be discovered, or whether mathematics is the product of the human mind. This provocative book, now available in a revised and expanded paperback edition, goes beyond foundationalist questions to offer what has been called a "postmodern" assessment of the philosophy of mathematics--one that addresses issues of theoretical importance in terms of mathematical experience. By bringing together essays of leading philosophers, mathematicians, logicians, and computer scientists, Thomas Tymoczko reveals an evolving effort to account for the nature of mathematics in relation to other human activities. These accounts include such topics as the history of mathematics as a field of study, predictions about how computers will influence the future organization of mathematics, and what processes a proof undergoes before it reaches publishable form. This expanded edition now contains essays by Penelope Maddy, Michael D. Resnik, and William P. Thurston that address the nature of mathematical proofs. The editor has provided a new afterword and a supplemental bibliography of recent work.
