Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 344 p)
ISBN:
9783642812910
,
9783642812934
Series Statement:
Springer series in solid-state sciences 8
Note:
Nonlinear ideas of a "soliton" variety have been a unifying influence on the natural sciences for many decades. However, their universal appreciation in the physics community as a genuine paradigm is very much a current development. All of us who have been associated with this recent wave of enthusiasm were impressed with the variety of applications, their inevitability once the mental contraint of linear normal modes is removed, and above all by the common mathematical structures underpinning applications with quite different (and often novel) physical manifestations. This has certainly been the situation in condensed matter, and when, during the Paris Lattice Dynamics Conference (September 1977), one of us (T. S. ) first suggested a condensed matter soliton Meeting, the idea was strongly encouraged. It would provide an opportunity to exhibit the common mathematical problems, illuminate the new contexts, and thereby focus the "subject" of nonlinear physics at this embryonic stage of its evolution. The original conception was to achieve a balance of mathematicians and physicists such that each would benefit from the other's expertise and outlook. In contrast to many soliton Meetings, however, a deliberate attempt was made to emphasize physics contexts rather than mathematical details
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 3-540-09138-6
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0-387-09138-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Physik
;
Nichtlineares Phänomen
;
Festkörper
;
Nichtlineares Phänomen
;
Festkörperphysik
;
Soliton
;
Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-81291-0
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