Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Lattice Models
Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Lattice Models
This book provides an introduction to nonequilibrium statistical physics via lattice models. Beginning with an introduction to the basic driven lattice gas, the early chapters discuss the relevance of this lattice model to certain natural phenomena and examine simulation results in detail. Several possible theoretical approaches to the driven lattice gas are presented. In the next two chapters, absorbing-state transitions are discussed in detail. The later chapters examine a variety of systems subject to dynamic disorder before returning to look at the more surprising effects of multiparticle rules, nonunique absorbing-states and conservation laws. Examples are given throughout the book, the emphasis being on using simple representations of nature to describe ordering in real systems. The use of methods such as mean-field theory, Monte Carlo simulation, and the concept of universality to study and interpret these models is described. Detailed references are included.
- A pedagogic introduction to a topic of strong current interest
- Comprehensive coverage
- Authors are leading researchers in area
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'This text provides an excellent introduction to an important and growing area of research … can be recommended to anyone wishing to acquaint themselves with this fascinating field of research.' D. A. Lavis, Contemporary Physics
Product details
May 1999Hardback
9780521480628
344 pages
244 × 170 × 21 mm
0.75kg
98 b/w illus. 1 table
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Driven lattice gases: simulations
- 3. Driven lattice gases: theory
- 4. Lattice gases with reaction
- 5. Catalysis models
- 6. The contact process
- 7. Models of disorder
- 8. Conflicting dynamics
- 9. Particle reaction models
- Bibliography
- Index.
