Stochastic Processes in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Directed Current Without Dissipation: Reincarnation of a Maxwell—Loschmidt Demon....Pages 7-20
Molecular Motors and Stochastic Models....Pages 21-31
Nonlinearly Coupled Chemical Reactions....Pages 32-37
Thermodynamics of Isothermal Brownian Motors....Pages 38-49
Rocking Ratchets at High Frequencies....Pages 50-60
Defect Dragging in Periodic Structures....Pages 61-68
Conduction in an Inhomogeneous Medium....Pages 69-74
Theory and Control of Multiple Hopping in Activated Surface Diffusion....Pages 75-84
Brownian Motion in a d -Dimensional Space with Fluctuating Friction....Pages 85-96
Active Motion of Brownian Particles....Pages 97-106
Diffusion in Granular Gases of Viscoelastic Particles....Pages 107-117
Scaling of Noise and Constructive Aspects of Fluctuations....Pages 121-130
Stochastic Resonances in Underdamped Bistable Systems....Pages 131-138
Stochastic Resonance in a System of Coupled Asymmetric Resonators....Pages 139-149
Optimizing Information Transmission in Model Neuronal Ensembles: The Role of Internal Noise....Pages 150-159
Stochastic Resonance with Images and Spatially Correlated Stochastic Patterns....Pages 160-171
Adiabatic and Non-adiabatic Resonances in Excitable Systems....Pages 172-181
The Lighthouse Model of a Neural Net with Delay....Pages 182-189
Noise-enhanced Phase Coherence in Ensembles of Stochastic Resonators....Pages 190-201
Estimation of Synchronization from Noisy Data with Application to Human Brain Activity....Pages 202-211
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Dynamical Complexity....Pages 212-231
Noise-Induced Order in Extended Systems: A Tutorial....Pages 235-246
Linear Instability Mechanisms of Noise-Induced Phase Transitions....Pages 247-256
Parametric Resonance Revisited....Pages 257-267
On Noise-Induced Transitions in Nonlinear Oscillators....Pages 268-279
The Kramers Oscillator Revisited....Pages 280-291
Reactive Processes in Low Dimensions: Statistical and Dynamical Aspects....Pages 292-303
On-Off Intermittency and Stochastic Stability in Nematics Driven by Multiplicative Noise....Pages 304-315
Effect of Boundary Condition Fluctuations on Smoluchowski Reaction Rates....Pages 316-326
Experimental Studies of Noise—Induced Phenomena in a Tunnel Diode....Pages 327-337
Quantum Mechanical Model of Proton Transfer in a Fluctuating Potential Field of the Active Site of α-Chymotrypsin....Pages 338-349
A Gentle Introduction to the Integration of Stochastic Differential Equations....Pages 353-364
Controlling Large Fluctuations: Theory and Experiment....Pages 365-377
Fluctuational Escape from a Chaotic Attractor....Pages 378-389
Problems of a Statistical Ensemble Theory for Systems Far from Equilibrium....Pages 390-399
Stochastic Approach to Lyapunov Exponents in Coupled Chaotic Systems....Pages 400-410
Peculiarities of Nonhyperbolic Chaos....Pages 411-421
Information of Open Systems....Pages 422-433
Nonlinear Spatiotemporal Patterns in Globally Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Systems....Pages 437-451
Segregation Effects in Randomly Mixed Diffusion-Controlled Binary Reactions....Pages 452-462
Nonlinear Waves on Stochastic Support: Calcium Waves in Astrocyte Syncytia....Pages 463-472
Stochastic Field Equation for Amorphous Surface Growth....Pages 473-483
Epitaxial Growth with Elastic Interaction: Layer and Cluster Growth....Pages 484-495
Stochastic Evolution of a Discrete Line: Numerical Results....Pages 496-506
Structures in Planetary Rings— Stability and Gravitational Scattering....Pages 507-516