Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Systems with Long Range Interactions: Theory and Experiments, Assisi, Italy 4-8 July 2007

by Campa, Alessandro; Giansanti, Andrea; Morigi, Giovanna; Labini, Francesco Sylos

• ISBN13: 9780735404885
• ISBN10: 0735404887
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-17
• Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics

Summary

The workshop was about the developments of the thermodynamical and dynamical behavior of many-body systems in which the interactions decay very slowly with the distance: they present very strange properties, not found in the other systems. The possibility of testing the theoretical ideas in laboratory systems was the most innovative issue.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Dieter H. E. Gross (1938-2007)	p. ix
Systems with Long-range Interactions: An Introduction	p. xxv
Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Theoretical Studies
The Study of the Equilibrium and of the Dynamical Properties of Long-range Interacting Systems	p. 3
Statistical Mechanics of Systems with Long-range Interactions	p. 22
Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Systems with Long-range Interactions: Interpretation of the Different Functionals	p. 39
Statistical Equilibrium Dynamics	p. 91
Low Dimensional Features of the Hamiltonian Mean Field Model	p. 109
Equilibrium and Out of Equilibrium Phase Transitions in Systems with Long-range Interactions and in 2D Flows	p. 117
Small Systems
Thermodynamics of Small Systems	p. 155
Fragment Size Distributions and Caloric Curve in Collision Induced Cluster Fragmentation	p. 165
Phase Transitions in Finite Systems Using Information Theory	p. 175
Self-Gravitating Systems
Gravitational Clustering: An Overview	p. 205
Statistical Mechanics of Infinite Gravitating Systems	p. 222
Infinite Self-gravitating Systems and Cosmological Structure Formation	p. 237
Dynamics of Collision-less Self-gravitating Systems and Dark Turbulence	p. 269
Cold Atoms
Long-range Interactions in Cold Atomic Systems: A Foreword	p. 291
Strongly Correlated Ion Coulomb Systems	p. 295
Long-range Interactions in Magneto-optical Traps	p. 303
Collective Atomic Recoil Lasing and Superradiant Rayleigh Scattering in a High-Q Ring Cavity	p. 319
Dipolar Interaction in Ultra-cold Atomic Gases	p. 332
Author Index	p. 363
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