Dynamical Critical Phenomena and Related Topics

Mode coupling theory in relation to the dynamical renormalization group method....Pages 1-24
Field-theoretic method applied to critical dynamics....Pages 25-47
Critical dynamics below T c ....Pages 48-74
The Migdal approximation and other new methods in the real-space renormalization group approach to critical dynamics....Pages 76-96
Application of real-space renormalization group approach to critical dynamics....Pages 97-132
Light scattering from helium 4 near the lambda point....Pages 133-151
Dynamic scaling near the Lambda point of liquid He 4 ....Pages 152-170
Transport properties near the superfluid transition and near the tricritical point of He 3 -He 4 mixtures....Pages 171-188
Renomarlization group calculations for critical and tricritical dynamics applied to helium....Pages 189-209
Intrinsic and extrinsic central-peak properties near structural phase transitions....Pages 210-250
Systems with quenched random impurities, an overview of dynamics, replicas and frustration approaches....Pages 251-279
Dynamics of the one-dimensional Heisenberg spin system....Pages 280-287
Experiments on hydrodynamic instabilities and the transition to turbulence....Pages 288-308
Theory of hydrodynamic instabilities....Pages 309-319
Fully developed turbulence and renormalization group....Pages 320-335
Critical dynamics far from equilibrium....Pages 336-356
Experimental aspects of transition phenomena in quantum optics....Pages 357-385