Hydrodynamic Fluctuations, Broken Symmetry and Correlation Functions

The aim in writing up these lectures in book form has been to provide a unified, elementary and easily accessible account of the language of correlation functions or response functions, and to discuss particularly those simple techniques whose usefulness is not restricted to one specific system.

List of contents

* Publishers Foreword * Editors Foreword * Introduction * A Simple ExampleSpin Diffusion * Formal Properties of Correlation Functions * The Normal Fluid * The Memory Function Formalism * Brownian Motion * Broken Symmetry * Hydrodynamic Spin Waves in Ferromagnets * Hydrodynamic Spin Waves in Antiferromagnets * Superfluids * Nematic Liquid Crystals * Superconductors

About the author

Dieter Forster

Summary

From the Preface: "The purpose of this book is to present and apply a language and to discuss methods which make it very convenient to exploit such analogies, and which are uniquely suited to describe and explain non-equilibrium phenomena in a rich variety of many-particle systems: the language of time correlation functions and linear response theory."

Product details

• Authors: Dieter Forster
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.1995
• EAN: 9780201410495
• ISBN: 978-0-201-41049-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Advanced Books Classics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries