Complexity from microscopic to macroscopic scales : coherence and large deviations /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division, c2002. |
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| Description: | xv, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NATO science series. Series II, Mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; v. 63 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4706054 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Organizing committee and participants
- Physics of computation: From classical to quantum
- Irreversibility and dephasing from vacuum fluctuations
- Of decoherent electrons and disordered conductors
- Spintronics and quantum dots for quantum computing and quantum communication
- Spin-polarized electronics using dilute magnetic semiconductors
- The evolution of evolutionary engines
- Computational complexity in physics
- When topology meets dynamics: Braids of particle motion and chirality
- Turbulence and financial market data analyzed with respect to their scale dependent complexity
- Collective behaviour of people
- Where is Adam Smith's invisible hand?
- Cellular model of superconducting vortex dynamics
- Index
