Relaxation in Complex Systems and Related Topics

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Experiments on Spin Glass Dynamics....Pages 3-10
Attempt at a Comprehensive Description of the Slow Spin Glass Dynamics....Pages 11-21
Spin-Glass Dynamics in the Two-Dimensional Ising System Rb 2 Cu 1-x Co x F 4 ....Pages 23-26
Cluster Model for Non-Equilibrium Relaxation in Spin Glasses....Pages 27-30
Some Aspects of the Dynamics of Random Anisotropy Systems....Pages 31-38
Static and Dynamic Properties of Fine Magnetic Particles....Pages 39-49
Kinetic Aspects of Magnetic Relaxation in Amorphous Ferromagnetic Alloys....Pages 51-59
Dynamic Crossover in Dipolar Ferromagnets....Pages 61-65
Magnetic Excitations in the Disordered System Mg 1-x Co x Cl 2 ....Pages 67-70
Dynamic Properties of Critical and Paramagnetic Spin Fluctuations in Simple Magnets: Confrontation of Experimental and Theoretical Findings....Pages 71-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Thermally Activated Flux Motion in High-T c -Superconductors....Pages 81-88
Flux Motion in Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 1 Cu 2 O 8+x Single Crystals....Pages 89-94
Relaxation of the Vortex Lattice in Type-II Superconductors....Pages 95-98
Investigation of the Relaxation Behaviour in High Tc Superconductors....Pages 99-104
Relaxation Experiments in Short Coherence Length Superconductors....Pages 105-112
Quasi-Equilibrium Dynamics and Non-Debye Relaxation in High T c Granular Superconductors....Pages 113-122
Relaxation and Dynamics in Granular Superconductors and Superconducting Arrays....Pages 123-130
Numerical Simulation of the Magnetic Relaxation in Superconducting Systems....Pages 131-136
Noise Measurements in dc-SQUIDs Based on Nb — NbOx — PbAuIn Josephson Junctions....Pages 137-140
The Resistive Transition of Inhomogeneous Superconductors : Effects of “Mild” Granularity, Dimensionality, Gaussian Fluctuations and Critical Behaviour....Pages 141-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Comparison of Spin Glass Relaxation and Energy Transport at Dynamic Percolation....Pages 147-154
Stretched-Exponential Relaxation of Electric Birefringence in Critical Systems and Colloidal Solutions....Pages 155-163
The Glass Transition of Hard Spherical Colloids....Pages 165-174
Structural Relaxation and Dynamics of Water in Disordered MX-RH 2 O Systems....Pages 175-183
Glassy Dynamics and Relaxation in Proteins....Pages 185-188
Models for Relaxation in Glasses and Protein Channels....Pages 189-196
Information classification acquired by organization of neuronic connections....Pages 197-203
Long-Term Behavior of Neural Networks....Pages 205-214
Information Storage and Relaxation in Biological Systems....Pages 215-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Dynamical Properties of Hierarchical Polymeric Cluster Solutions....Pages 223-230
Critical Scaling in Glassy Glasses....Pages 231-234
Flow in Granular Materials: Self-Organized Non-Critical Behavior....Pages 235-244
Non-Exponential Thermal Relaxation and Low-Energy Excitations in CDW Compounds....Pages 245-249
Non-Debye-Like Dielectric Relaxation in Ionically and Electronically Conducting Glasses....Pages 251-260
Anelastic Relaxation Due to Interacting Point Defects....Pages 261-269
Complexity and Chaos in Thermal Convection....Pages 271-283
About the Fractal Relationship Between Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts Decay, Cole-Cole and Davidson-Cole Relaxations....Pages 285-288
Polarization Decay in Glass-Forming and Ferroelectric Perovskites....Pages 289-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Localization as a Mechanism for the Transition to Anomalous Relaxation....Pages 295-300
Complexity of Hierarchical Relaxation....Pages 301-304
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Probability Density of Random Walks on Random Fractals: Stretched Gaussians and Multifractal Features....Pages 305-307
The Symmetric and Fully Distributed Solution to a Generalized Dining Philosophers Problem: An Analogue of the Coupling Theory of Relaxations in Complex Correlated Systems....Pages 309-316
Onsager- Machlup Functions for Ising Networks....Pages 317-324
Simple Models for Complex Relaxation....Pages 325-328
Introduction to the Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Fluid Dynamics....Pages 329-334
Back Matter....Pages 335-338