Progress in Statistical Physics

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface

• Part I. Kinetic Theory and Transport Phenomena

  • Bogoliubov Choh Uhlenbeck Theory: Cradle of Modern Kinetic Theory

  • Towards Statistical-Mechanical Understanding of Supercooled Liquids and Glass Transitions

  • Time Evolution in Many Particle Systems and Recurrence Relations Approach

  • Nonequilibrium Grand Ensemble Method for Dense Simple Fluids

  • Nonlinear Conductivity in a Metal-Insulator Checkerboard-Type Structures

  • An Iterative Cumulant Moment Method for Application of Boltzmann Equation to the Plane Shock-Wave

  • Perturbation Theory for Transport in a Very Thin Slab System

• Part II. Stochastic and Nonlinear Phenomena

  • Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices: Recent Results from the Concept of Anticontinuity

  • Stochastic Resonance in Periodic Potentials

  • Barrier Crossing with Memory

  • Numerical Study of Elastic Phonon Scattering by Discrete Breathers

  • Generalized Transport Coefficients for Hot Electron System

  • 1/f Dynamic and Granular Avalanches

• Part III. Random and Disordred Systems

  • Superparamagnetic Clustering of Data — The Definitive Solution of an Ill-Posed Problem

  • Universality of the Surface Curvature in Equilibrium Crystal Shapes

  • Glassy Relaxation in an Irrationally Frustrated XY Model in Two Dimensions: A Model for the Structural Glass Transitions

  • Dynamics of the Height-Conserved Continuum Growth Equation with Spatiotemporally Correlated Noise

  • Fragmentation Scaling of the Percolation Cluster

• Part IV. Soft Condensed Matter and Biological Systems

  • Mean-Field Ising Model and Low Rates in Neural Networks

  • Criticality by Mutation and Selection in Biological Evolution

  • Wave Pattern Selection in Signaling Populations of Amoebe

  • Renormalization of Fluctuating Hexatic Membranes

  • Conformal Transition of a Membrane-Bound Model Protein

  • Weight Space Structure and Internal Representations of Fully-Connected Committee Machine

  • A Stochastic Model of Voltage-Gated Ion Channel

• Part V. Quantum Systems

  • Duality of Quasiparticle Gases in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

  • Exact Analysis of Quantum Fluctuations via the Mori Formula

  • The Condensate and Fluctuating States in Superfluid Helium-4 Atom-Droplet Interactions

  • Thermal and Magnetic Field Effect on Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of a Ferromagnetic Particle

  • Canonical Transformation and Coherent States of the General Time-Dependent Quadratic Hamiltonian System

  • Quantum Fluctuations and Uncertainty Values of the Harmonic Oscillator with an Exponentially Decaying Mass

  • Off-Resonant Transport Through an Ultra-Small Quantum Dot