Overview

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.

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Author:   David Nelson (Harvard Univ, Usa) ,  Tsvi Piran (Hebrew Univ Of Jerusalem, Israel) ,  Steven Weinberg (Univ Of Texas At Austin, Usa)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.694kg
ISBN:  

9789812387721

ISBN 10:   9812387722
Pages:   444
Publication Date:   14 June 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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.,. strikes an excellent balance between pedagogical review and current results and developments. This book should be on every theorist's shelf.?

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