Scale Invariance (Record no. 101858)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642151231
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-642-15123-1
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Classification number QC173.45-173.458
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Subject category code PHF
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Subject category code SCI077000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 530.41
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lesne, Annick.
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Title Scale Invariance
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title From Phase Transitions to Turbulence /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Annick Lesne, Michel Lagües.
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
-- 2012.
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Extent XVI, 400 p.
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Formatted contents note Foreword by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes -- Introduction -- Change of State in Matter -- Fractal Geometry -- Universality as a Consequence of Scale Invariance -- Diffusion -- The Percolation Transition -- Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics -- Superconducting Cuprates -- Growth Mechanisms and Interface Roughness -- Dynamical Systems, Chaos and Turbulence -- Self-Organized Critical Phenomena -- Scale Invariance in Biology -- Power and Limits of Scaling Approaches.
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Summary, etc During a century, from the Van der Waals mean field description (1874) of gases to the introduction of renormalization group (RG techniques 1970), thermodynamics and statistical physics were just unable to account for the incredible universality which was observed in numerous critical phenomena. The great success of RG techniques is not only to solve perfectly this challenge of critical behaviour in thermal transitions but to introduce extremely useful tools in a wide field of daily situations where a system exhibits scale invariance. The introduction of scaling, scale invariance and universality concepts has been a significant turn in modern physics and more generally in natural sciences. Since then, a new "physics of scaling laws and critical exponents", rooted in scaling approaches, allows quantitative descriptions of numerous phenomena, ranging from phase transitions to earthquakes, polymer conformations, heartbeat rhythm, diffusion, interface growth and roughening, DNA sequence, dynamical systems, chaos and turbulence. The chapters are jointly written by an experimentalist and a theorist. This book aims at a pedagogical overview, offering to the students and researchers a thorough conceptual background and a simple account of a wide range of applications. It presents a complete tour of both the formal advances and experimental results associated with the notion of scaling, in physics, chemistry and biology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mathematical physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Materials.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Condensed Matter Physics.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mathematical Methods in Physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Complexity.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Structural Materials.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Single Molecule Studies, Molecular Motors.
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Personal name Lagües, Michel.
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Title Springer eBooks
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International Standard Book Number 9783642151224
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15123-1
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