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Ordering in Strongly Fluctuating Condensed Matter Systems

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  • © 1980

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Editors:
  1. Tormod Riste

    1. Institutt for Atomenergi, Kjeller, Norway

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 50)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Ordering in Strongly Fluctuating Systems Introductory Comments

    • S. F. Edwards
    Pages 1-10

  3. Phase Transitions in Low-Dimensional Systems and Renormalization Group Theory

    • A. P. Young
    Pages 11-29

  4. Real-Space Renormalization-Group Method for Quantum Systems

    • R. Jullien, K. A. Penson, P. Pfeuty, K. Uzelac
    Pages 31-37

  5. Upper Marginal Dimensionality. Concept and Experiment

    • Jens Als-Nielsen, Ib Laursen
    Pages 39-55

  6. Lower Marginal Dimensionality. X-Ray Scattering from the Smectic-A Phase of Iquid Crystals

    • Jens Als-Nielsen, J. D. Litster, R. J. Birgeneau, M. Kaplan, C. R. Safinya
    Pages 57-75

  7. Critical Fluctuations Under Shear Flow

    • D. Beysens
    Pages 77-83

  8. Lifshitz Points in Ising Systems with Competing Interactions

    • R. Liebmann
    Pages 85-90

  9. Elementary Excitations in Magnetic Chains

    • Jacques Villain
    Pages 91-106

  10. Experimental Studies of Linear and Nonlinear Modes in 1-D-Magnets

    • M. Steiner
    Pages 107-140

  11. Q-Dependence of the Soliton Response in CsNiF3 at T = 10K and H = 5 kg

    • K. Kakurai, J. K. Kjems, M. Steiner
    Pages 141-144

  12. Dynamics of The Sine-Gordon Chain: The Kink-Phonon Interaction, Soliton Diffusion and Dynamical Correlations

    • Nikos Theodorakopoulos
    Pages 145-149

  13. The Spin-Wave Continuum of The S=1/2 Linear Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

    • Gerhard Müller, Harry Thomas, Hans Beck
    Pages 151-155

  14. Excitations and Phase Transitions in Random Anti-Ferromagnets

    • R. A. Cowley, R. J. Birgeneau, G. Shirane
    Pages 157-181

  15. Excitations of Dilute Magnets Near the Percolation Threshold

    • Timothy Ziman
    Pages 183-187

  16. Critical Properties of the Mixed Ising Ferromagnet

    • J. M. Yeomans, R. B. Stinchcombe
    Pages 189-194

  17. Structure and Phase Transitions in Physisorbed Monolayers

    • John P. McTague, M. Nielsen, L. Passell
    Pages 195-220

  18. Two-Dimensional Solids and Their Interaction with Substrates

    • Jacques Villain
    Pages 221-260

  19. The Dislocation Theory of Melting: History, Status, and Prognosis

    • R. M. J. Cotterill
    Pages 261-270

  20. The Kosterlitz-Thouless Theory of Two-Dimensional Melting

    • A. P. Young
    Pages 271-283
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This NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Gei10, Norway, April 16th-27th 1979, was the fifth in a series devoted to the subject of phase transitions and instabilities. The application to NATO for the funding of this ASI contained the following para­ graphs: "Traditionally one has made a clear distinction between solids and liquids in terms of positional order, one being long-ranged and the other at most short-ranged. In recent years experiments have revealed a much more faceted picture and a less sharp distinction between solids and liquids. As an example one now has 3-dimensiona1 (3-D) liquids with 1-D density waves and 3-D solids with 1-D-1iquid molecular chains. The subsystems have the common feature of 10w­ dimensional systems: a strong tendency for fluctuations to appear. Although the connection between fluctuations and dimensionality, and the suppression of long-range order by fluctuations, was pointed out as early as 1935 by Peier1s and by Landau, it is in the last five years or so that theoretical work has gained momentum. This development of understanding started ten years ago, however, much inspired by the experimental work on 2-D spin systems.

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  • Institutt for Atomenergi, Kjeller, Norway

    Tormod Riste

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