Synergetics and Dynamic Instabilities ( Enrico Fermi International School of Physics )

Publication series :Enrico Fermi International School of Physics

Author: Caglioti   G.;Lugiato   L.;Haken   H.  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 1988

E-ISBN: 9780444600929

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444705402

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780444705402

Subject: O431 instinct theory of light

Language: ENG

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Description

This collection of papers presented at the Enrico Fermi School considers the subject of synergetics as a firmly established field of interdisciplinary research, ranging from physics, chemistry and biology, to subjects like economy and sociology. These proceedings focus on the natural sciences.

Chapter

Front Cover

pp.:  1 – 3

Copyright Page

pp.:  5 – 6

Table of Contents

pp.:  6 – 12

Introductory Remarks

pp.:  12 – 17

Chapter 2. Instabilities and Chaos in Lasers: Introduction to Hyperchaos

pp.:  36 – 67

Chapter 3. Optical Instabilities

pp.:  67 – 88

Chapter 4. Dynamics of the Bistable Laser with Saturable Absorber

pp.:  88 – 109

Chapter 5. Quantum Tunnelling in Dispersive Optical Bistability

pp.:  109 – 117

Chapter 6. Mechanical Instabilities of Metals

pp.:  117 – 127

Chapter 7. Mechanical Instabilities of Metals

pp.:  127 – 138

Chapter 8. Mechanical Instabilities of Metals

pp.:  138 – 167

Chapter 9. Biological Pattern Formation and Physico-Chemical Laws

pp.:  167 – 191

Chapter 10. Phase Transitions and Instabilities

pp.:  191 – 235

Chapter 11. Thermohydrodynamic Instabilities

pp.:  235 – 260

Chapter 12. A Metric Model for Thermodynamics: Uncertainty Relations

pp.:  260 – 271

Chapter 13. Noise and Extremum Principles in Macroscopic Nonequilibrium Systems

pp.:  271 – 314

Chapter 14. Physics of Nonequilibrium Systems.

pp.:  314 – 345

Chapter 15. Sensitivity of Nonequilibrium Systems to External Noise.

pp.:  345 – 375

Chapter 16. Fractals and the Theory of Phase Transitions (*).

pp.:  375 – 408

Chapter 17. Phase-Space Diffusion in the Classical and Quantum Mechanics of Chaotic Systems (*)-

pp.:  408 – 424

Chapter 18. The Future.

pp.:  424 – 440

Related Publications

pp.:  440 – 441

Proceedings of the International school of Physics «enrico fermi»

pp.:  441 – 445

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