9.: / editor in chief Virginia Brown ; associate editors James Hankins and Robert A. Kaster

• Record Nr.: UNISA996437452903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-8132-1300-2
• Descrizione fisica: Testo elettronico (PDF) (XXIII, 280 p.)
• Disciplina: 016.88
• Soggetti: Letteratura classica - Traduzioni - Sec. 5.-17. - Bibliografie
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese; Latino
• Formato: Risorsa elettronica
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Physics of long-range interacting systems

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910157842503321
• Autore: Campa Alessandro
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 0-19-178714-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 410 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 530.13
• Soggetti: Statistical physics; System theory; Atomic Physics; Physics; Physical Sciences & Mathematics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Basics of statistical mechanics of short-range interacting systems -- ; Equilibrium statistical mechanics of long-range interactions -- The large deviations method and its applications -- Solutions of mean field models -- Beyond mean-field models -- Quantum long-range systems -- BBGKY hierarchy, kinetic theories and the Boltzmann equation -- Kinetic theory of long-range systems: Klimontovich, Vlasov and Lenard-Balescu equations -- Out-of-equilibrium dynamics and slow relaxation -- Gravitational systems -- Two-dimensional and geophysical fluid mechanics -- Cold coulomb systems -- Hot plasma -- Wave-particles interaction -- Dipolar systems -- Appendixes: A. Features of the main models studied throughout the book -- B. Evaluation of the laplace integral outside the analyticity strip -- C. The equilibrium form of the one-particle distribution function in short-range interacting systems -- D. The differential cross-section of a binary collision -- E. Autocorrelation of the fluctuations of the one-particle density -- F. Derivation of the Fokker-Planck coefficients.
• Sommario/riassunto: This title deals with an important class of many-body systems: those where the interaction potential decays slowly for large inter-particle distance. In particular, systems where the decay is slower than the inverse inter-particle distance raised to the dimension of the embedding space. Gravitational and Coulomb interactions are the most prominent examples. However, it has become clear that long-range interactions are more common than previously thought. This has stimulated a growing interest in the study of long-range interacting systems, with a better understanding of the many peculiarities in their behaviour.