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Springer Ageing And The Glass Transition 2007 Edition by Malte Henkel, Michel Pleimling, Roland Sanctuary
Understanding cooperative phenomena far from equilibrium is one of the fascinating challenges of present-day many-body physics. Glassy behaviour and the physical ageing process of such materials are paradigmatic examples. The present volume, primarily intended as introduction and reference, collects six extensive lectures addressing selected experimental and theoretical issues in the field of glassy systems. Table of contents : Ageing, Rejuvenation and Memory: The Example of Spin-Glasses.- About the Nature of the Structural Glass Transition: An Experimental Approach.- Glassy Behaviours in A-Thermal Systems, the Case of Granular Media: A Tentative Review.- to Simulation Techniques.- From Urn Models to Zero-Range Processes: Statics and Dynamics.- Field-Theory Approaches to Nonequilibrium Dynamics.