Solids Far from Equilibrium

This 1991 book, based on the 1989 Beg-Rohu summer school, contains six sets of pedagogical lectures on the statistical physics of crystal growth.

C. Godrèche (Edited by)

9780521411707, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 January 1992

608 pages
23.6 x 15.9 x 4.7 cm, 1.079 kg

"...a collection of 6 lectures given by specialists who are among the best in the world...a didactic, self-contained and rather complete introduction to the physics, and mainly statistical physics, of growth." Jacques Villain, , Foundations of Physics

Originally published in 1991, this book, based on the 1989 Beg-Rohu summer school, contains six sets of pedagogical lectures by internationally respected researchers on the statistical physics of crystal growth. Providing a course in which the phenomena of shape and growth are viewed from a fresh vantage point, the lectures cover a variety of developments in the field and reflect on problems that have received inadequate attention. Statistical physicists, condensed matter physicists, metallurgists, and applied mathematicians will find this a stimulating and valuable book on an important topic.

Preface
1. Shape and growth of crystals P. Nozières
2. Instabilities of planar solidification fronts B. Caroli, C. Caroli and B. Roulet
3. An introduction to the kinetics of first-order phase transition J. S. Langer
4. Dendritic growth and related topics Y. Pomeau and M. Ben Amar
5. Growth and aggregation far from equilibrium L. M. Sander
6. Kinetic roughening of growing surfaces J. Krug and H. Spohn
Acknowledgements
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Statistical physics [PHS]