Scaling Approaches to Nonequilibrium Systems
Scaling Approaches to Nonequilibrium Systems
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 14th January 2002
- Speaker: Tom Hanney (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Nonequilbrium systems are encountered throughout nature. They exhibit a wide range of interesting behaviour, not only of the type familiar in equilibrium statistical mechanics, but also new features such as steady state phase transitions induced by external driving, pattern formation and very rich dynamics. Because exact solutions for these systems are scarce, we investigate the possibility of applying scaling techniques to extract the critical behaviour in nonequilibrium models.
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