Product Description: This book is about the dynamics of coupled map lattices (CML) and of related spatially extended systems. It will be useful to post-graduate students and researchers seeking an overview of the state-of-the-art and of open problems in this area of nonlinear dynamics...read more

Product Description: This work contains 36 short papers on progress in a variety of subjects in mathematical and theoretical physics, written for the proceedings of a symposium in honor of the 70th birthday of Professor F.Y. Wu, held at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, October 7-11, 2001...read more

Product Description: LLD2K is the first international conference focused on local lattice distortions, i.e., local breaking of symmetry or patterning with a nanometer length scale. The proceedings cover fundamentals as well as latest developments, revealing generic features of a novel class of materials which exhibit exotic properties such as high temperature superconductivity or colossal magnetoresistance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book covers the topics discussed during the 19th Thaniguchi Symposium. The phenomena within the scope of this conference are as follows: neutral-ionic transions of organic charge-transfer salts; optical excitations, lattice relaxations and photo-induced phenomena; optical properties of the C60 crystal and photo-induced polymerization; self-trapped excitons, polarons, solitons and other nonlinear photo-excitations in various insulators; photo-induced structural changes in ferroelectrics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The focus of the workshop is the role of crystal lattices, ie atomic structure, phonons, lattice distortions and the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity in oxides. In spite of the intense research effort during the last five years the mechanisms of high temperature superconductivity still remains unknown...read more