Statistical mechanics of membranes and surfaces
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Statistical mechanics of membranes and surfaces
World Scientific, c2004
2nd ed
- : pbk.
Available at 11 libraries
Note
"The Fifth Jerusalem Winter School on the Statistical mechanics of membranes and surfaces was held from December 28, 1987 to January 6, 1988." -- Pref. to the 1st ed.
Contains new chapters for the second edition
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This invaluable book explores the delicate interplay between geometry and statistical mechanics in materials such as microemulsions, wetting and growth interfaces, bulk lyotropic liquid crystals, chalcogenide glasses and sheet polymers, using tools from the fields of polymer physics, differential geometry, field theory and critical phenomena. Several chapters have been updated relative to the classic 1989 edition. Moreover, there are now three entirely new chapters - on effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity, on fixed connectivity membranes and on triangulated surface models of fluctuating membranes.
Table of Contents
- The Statistical Mechanics of Membranes and Interfaces (D Nelson)
- Interfaces: Fluctuations, Interactions and Related Transitions (M E Fisher)
- Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Fluctuating Films and Membranes (S Leibler)
- The Physics of Microemulsions and Amphiphilic Monolayers (D Andelman)
- Properties of Tethered Surfaces (Y Kantor)
- Theory of the Crumpling Transition (D Nelson)
- Geometry and Field Theory of Random Surfaces and Membranes (F David)
- Statistical Mechanics of Self-Avoiding Crumpled Manifolds (B Duplantier)
- Anisotropic and Heterogeneous Polymerized Membranes (L Radzihovsky)
- Fixed-connectivity Membranes (M Bowick)
- Triangulated Surface Models of Fluctuating Membranes (G Gompper & D Kroll)
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