Statistical Mechanics Of Membranes And Surfaces (2nd Edition)
2nd Edition
Published on 14. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
444 pages
978-981-238-772-1 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
761 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-238-772-1 (9789812387721)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
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)