Poverty, Inequality and Development (Lecture Notes in Physics, 353) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387522409 ISBN 13: 9780387522401

Publisher: Springer, 2008

Synopsis

Solitons and their observable signatures in quasi-one-dimensional systems.- Local modes in molecules.- Dynamics of nonlinear excitations in DNA.- Nonlinear excitations in chains of hydrogen-bonded Incoherent neutron scattering in acetanilide and derivatives.- NMR study of nonlinear excitations in prebiological systems.- Finite temperature behaviour of the exciton bound states in the compressible molecular chain.- Solitons on a diatomic chain with alternating interactions.- Longitudinal and transverse proton collective dynamics on a two-dimensional multistable substrate.- Critical fluctuations in the 2D XY antiferromagnet BaNi2(PO4)2 : NMR measurements.- 1/S quantum corrections for the magnetic solitons in various Heisenberg models.- Defects in non-linear waves in convection.- Gap solitons in nonlinear electrical transmission lines.- Can a nontrivial solitonic mode be observed in a square Josephson junction?.- Radiative damping of driven sine-Gordon breathers.- Fluxon trapping by inhomogeneities in long Josephson junctions.- Dynamical regimes phase-locked to an external microwave field in a long, unbiased Josephson junction.- Existence and stability of driven and damped phase-locked NLS-solitons and SG-breathers.- Spectral characterization of 2-D nonlinear coherent structures.- The stochastic ? 4 model.- Invariants for the generalized Lotka-Volterra equations.- Slow relaxation effects in the evolution of nonlinear quantum systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387522409
• ISBN 13: 9780387522401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Janvry Alain, Kanbur Ravi